Scoble is as nutty about the Tablet PC as I am about Smalltalk. Take this:

MacDailyNews starts the name calling already: "Microsoft's Windows 'Vista' promises similar features to Apple's already-shipping Mac OS X."

Oh, really?

I didn't realize there's a Tablet Mac already shipping (is there a Mac that you can carry around and use a pen with?). Ours is already shipping, don't need to wait for Vista.

So.... exactly what does Vista or OS X have to do with the Tablet PC then? He then goes through a laundry list of features (many of them interesting, and as far as the Media PC stuff goes, we'll see how that works out - my wife's new box is one of those things with more ports on it than you can count, almost).

Here's one feature of OS X that I liked immediately, and one that the PC does not have - simple remote access capability (don't talk to me about terminal services, etc - if I have to go out of my way to install it and the requisite clients, it doesn't count). The Mac locked up the other day, when my daughter tried to get on brettspielwelt.de - apparently, trying to use a JVM in a browser is asking too much of the OS. However - unlike Windows, where once you get to the point where the three fingered salute is ignored, you aren't hosed - I was able to ssh in from another machine and kill off the offending process.

It would be nice if MS, at any point, applied some of the Unix technology that's been lying around for decades now...