I absolutely don’t get what Haas means when he says [tablets] are companion products to notebooks. I fully intend my tablet – even this one without a keyboard – to replace notebooks.

Just have a very compact keyboard in the tablet’s bag at all times and exactly why you would still need a notebook is beyond me.

I absolutely don’t get what Haas means when he says [tablets] are companion products to notebooks. I fully intend my tablet – even this one without a keyboard – to replace notebooks.

Just have a very compact keyboard in the tablet’s bag at all times and exactly why you would still need a notebook is beyond me.

I absolutely don’t get what Haas means when he says [tablets] are companion products to notebooks. I fully intend my tablet – even this one without a keyboard – to replace notebooks.

Just have a very compact keyboard in the tablet’s bag at all times and exactly why you would still need a notebook is beyond me.

I absolutely don’t get what Haas means when he says [tablets] are companion products to notebooks. I fully intend my tablet – even this one without a keyboard – to replace notebooks.

Just have a very compact keyboard in the tablet’s bag at all times and exactly why you would still need a notebook is beyond me.

I have a Motion Computing LE1600; the handwriting recognition engine is quite good but that isn’t the only variable at play in the TabletPC experience – Microsoft’s TIP (Tablet Input Panel) provides so many helpful ‘handrails’ that I worry about Apple’s own pen-based input experience.

Microsoft’s TabletPC (XP TabletPC Edition and Vista moreso) prove that a good Handwriting Recognition Engine is not all thats required to make a good experience. Microsoft has had five years since the debut of the TabletPC operating system to improve the user experience and it shows – most clearly in Vista. Apple, on the other hand, has made no changes to the pen-based aspects of Mac OS X since its introduction.

Apple’s Inkwell (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/inkwell/) has no equivalent to Microsoft’s TIP so there is nothing between the user and recognized (or unrecognized) text except a floating input window; meaning there are no handrails to help the user along to better recognition. Whenever I fire up my Wacom tablet to try out Inkwell, I feel incapacitated or helpless – I’m alone with the Recognition Engine. Given how thoughtful Apple can be in making other aspects of their OS so intuitive, its a shame that none of that famed attention to detail can be found here.

This has all been a long way round to wondering whether AxioTron has bundled any helpful software with the ModBook? Or does it simply depend on Inkwell and related technologies that Apple supplies with Tiger, Panther and presumeably the upcoming Leopard? I didn’t recognize the ‘keyboard’ panel seen in some MacWorld photos of the ModBook, whereas the Input Panel was very familiar.

I have my fingers crossed that Rob Bushway of GottaBeMobile.com gets an evaluation unit from OWC.

Peter

I have a Motion Computing LE1600; the handwriting recognition engine is quite good but that isn’t the only variable at play in the TabletPC experience – Microsoft’s TIP (Tablet Input Panel) provides so many helpful ‘handrails’ that I worry about Apple’s own pen-based input experience.

Microsoft’s TabletPC (XP TabletPC Edition and Vista moreso) prove that a good Handwriting Recognition Engine is not all thats required to make a good experience. Microsoft has had five years since the debut of the TabletPC operating system to improve the user experience and it shows – most clearly in Vista. Apple, on the other hand, has made no changes to the pen-based aspects of Mac OS X since its introduction.

Apple’s Inkwell (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/inkwell/) has no equivalent to Microsoft’s TIP so there is nothing between the user and recognized (or unrecognized) text except a floating input window; meaning there are no handrails to help the user along to better recognition. Whenever I fire up my Wacom tablet to try out Inkwell, I feel incapacitated or helpless – I’m alone with the Recognition Engine. Given how thoughtful Apple can be in making other aspects of their OS so intuitive, its a shame that none of that famed attention to detail can be found here.

This has all been a long way round to wondering whether AxioTron has bundled any helpful software with the ModBook? Or does it simply depend on Inkwell and related technologies that Apple supplies with Tiger, Panther and presumeably the upcoming Leopard? I didn’t recognize the ‘keyboard’ panel seen in some MacWorld photos of the ModBook, whereas the Input Panel was very familiar.

I have my fingers crossed that Rob Bushway of GottaBeMobile.com gets an evaluation unit from OWC.

Peter

I have a Motion Computing LE1600; the handwriting recognition engine is quite good but that isn’t the only variable at play in the TabletPC experience – Microsoft’s TIP (Tablet Input Panel) provides so many helpful ‘handrails’ that I worry about Apple’s own pen-based input experience.

Microsoft’s TabletPC (XP TabletPC Edition and Vista moreso) prove that a good Handwriting Recognition Engine is not all thats required to make a good experience. Microsoft has had five years since the debut of the TabletPC operating system to improve the user experience and it shows – most clearly in Vista. Apple, on the other hand, has made no changes to the pen-based aspects of Mac OS X since its introduction.

Apple’s Inkwell (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/inkwell/) has no equivalent to Microsoft’s TIP so there is nothing between the user and recognized (or unrecognized) text except a floating input window; meaning there are no handrails to help the user along to better recognition. Whenever I fire up my Wacom tablet to try out Inkwell, I feel incapacitated or helpless – I’m alone with the Recognition Engine. Given how thoughtful Apple can be in making other aspects of their OS so intuitive, its a shame that none of that famed attention to detail can be found here.

This has all been a long way round to wondering whether AxioTron has bundled any helpful software with the ModBook? Or does it simply depend on Inkwell and related technologies that Apple supplies with Tiger, Panther and presumeably the upcoming Leopard? I didn’t recognize the ‘keyboard’ panel seen in some MacWorld photos of the ModBook, whereas the Input Panel was very familiar.

I have my fingers crossed that Rob Bushway of GottaBeMobile.com gets an evaluation unit from OWC.

Peter