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You could actually get a full desktop experience from a tablet back in 2003, with products like the NEC Versa Litepad [1] running Windows XP. With a fully-fledg
by michaelt 4y ago
You could actually get a full desktop experience from a tablet back in 2003, with products like the NEC Versa Litepad [1] running Windows XP. With a fully-fledged x86 processor, you could run anything a desktop could run.
It was pretty neat, but I can tell you from experience that coding using handwriting recognition isn't a great experience :)
[1] https://www.cnet.com/reviews/nec-versa-litepad-tablet-pc-vlpad933-review/ https://www.cnet.com/reviews/nec-versa-litepad-tablet-pc-vlp...
- dkonofalski 4y agoAll of the Tablet PC's running XP Tablet Edition were terrible. I will die on that hill. I tried probably about 10 different versions and the company I worked for was a reseller for them so I got to play with a lot of them. It was just Windows XP with pen input slapped on and it *sucked*.