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For all the hype on Tablet PC's, my theory about how people prefer to interact with a PC seems to be mostly correct - keyboards rule over writing. Why? Even if you don't really touch type (I don't), you can get a lot more entered a lot more quickly via the keyboard. It seems that many people, like me, just don't like to write longhand if we don't have to. And the manufacturers are getting antsy:
With Tablets failing to attract many 'corridor warriors' and premium pricing making them highly uncompetitive in market awash with bargain notebooks, vendors continue to find making money an uphill battle. Under a million will be sold this year, less than five per cent of the global notebook market, with HP the leader.
If I have to write by hand, I prefer paper - yellow pads and notebooks. IMHO, a Tablet for writing is about as useless as it gets
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