James Kendrick and I have both enunciated this view:
http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkonther...tapped_ta.html
http://www.segal.org/tablet/index.html
However, it is a minority view among people who already have the laptop size
Tablet PCs. Senior people in the Tablet PC hardware and software business
reflect the preferences of these existing customers. However, if you talk
to potential users such as doctors they say they would only put up with the
inconveniences of a Tablet PC if they could put it in a pocket, and thus
gain the huge convenience of continuous access to a real computer.

The obvious answer is a variety of sizes of Tablet PCs. Sooner or later
someone will produce a small one and we will get to test our predictions.
In the meantime, it seems like a chapter out of Clay Christensen's book "The
Innovator's Dilemma".

"me" <me@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> To make this product mainstream I think the size and weight has to come
> down. At the moment this is a geek product. No-one wants to walk around
> carrying something the size and weight of an LCD TV.
>
> I think tablets need to become filofax size and replace the Pocket PC
> market. When are we going to see 7-8 inch tablets? The sony u750p is part
> way there but the sony's screen at 6 inches is just that little bit too
> small. Apart from that its a great product.