Another two cents: Motion Computing is one of the few manufacturers that
make 'slates'. That is a form of Tablet PC that has no attached keyboard at
all. It is a screen and a pen, that you use much like you would paper on a
clipboard. Fairly useful in situations where paper on a clipboard is the
common media, doctors offices, work sites, factory floors, etc. Not to say
you can't hook a mouse and keyboard to the 'slate'. Motion even has some
really nice dock systems that wind up having the 'slate' sit up like it was
a regular monitor and the peripherals are attached. When you want to, you
just grab the 'monitor' and go.

Most Tablets being sold these days seem to be of the convertible variety,
essentially a laptop form with a screen that spins around and folds down
over the keyboard.


"jameshanley39" <jameshanley39******.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On 21 Aug, 01:37, "Rainald Taesler" <taes...@gmx.de> wrote:
>> jameshanley39wrote:
>> >> I see a tablet pc with that tablet edition version of windows xp.
>>
>> >> But the tablet PC, Motion 1400. has a Centrino M 1.1GHz . That's
>> >> not a bad CPU.. And 512MB RAM . Looks to me to be able to support
>> >> regular edition of windows XP.
>>
>> >> Why would it have a tablet edition.. What are the advantages of the
>> >> tablet edition?
>>
>> >> A system like that that runs tablet edition would be able to run a
>> >> regular edition too, right?
>>
>> > thanks to both that replied, you were crystal clear.
>>
>> De nada ;-)
>>
>> Any benefits out of that?
>>
>> Rainald
>
> besides the knowledge and the potential benefits of that, yes
>
> I now know that a little "laptop" with that tablet pc version of
> windows xp is not crippled to only being able to run a low requirement
> version of windows..(infact it isn't running a low req version!)
> And, as I suspected, a machine running it isn't going to have some
> weird architecture processor that can only run special OSs written for
> it. like a Pocket PC (which wikipedia says is an "ARM based" CPUs
> running Windows CE - which is of course a low requirement edition of
> windows, which also suggests a very low power machine). So i'm glad to
> know it isn't like Windows CE! The tablet pc(or ultra portable or
> whatever, running the tablet edition of windows xp) is a little
> computer but a proper one!