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Tuesday, February 18, 2003
Scrawl to Screen, With a Pen - DAVID POGUE, NY Times
A laptop may make a powerful portable office, but as a pure note-taking device, it is not universally considered an improvement over handwriting. In meetings, the laptop's screen becomes a wall that psychologically isolates you from the group.... The Tablet PC does a poor job of handwriting recognition, but Microsoft claims that nobody cares about that. Its research says that most people refer to their handwritten notes as handwritten notes, and never bother retyping them into the computer so that they can edit, copy, paste, format and use a spelling checker. What's lost in the roar of Microsoft's marketing machine, however, is that the Tablet PC isn't the only system, or even necessarily the best one, for capturing handwritten notes on the go - especially if money is an object. Seiko and Logitech, for example, have each solved the problem cleverly, if not perfectly, by focusing not on a touch screen (as you do on a Tablet PC) but on the pen itself.
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