Tablet PC Show #37
The Tablet PC Show #037 (MP3 - 14MB - 40 min)
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Welcome to episode 37 of the Tablet PC Show! This is the first episode I’ve recorded on my new Tablet PC, a Toshiba M200.
Getting the M200 up and running was quite an adventure; a tale with which I begin this podcast. The tablet arrived with no operating system and no good way to install one without buying some expensive additional hardware, so I tried some other tricks, including the use of Knoppix Linux and the BartPE version of Windows.
After my story, I get to the news and updates for this episode…
News and Updates:
- scanR, about whom we’ve talked in the past, have a new service in beta for scanning business cards.
- Microsoft announces the next version of Origami called “Vistagami”.
- The also announce a forthcoming version of mobile devices called “Haiku”.
- TabletKiosk announce a recall on the first shipment of eo UMPCs, which have a battery life problem.
- Vista will ship with a cool peer-to-peer application sharing service.
- Samsung will seek to lower the cost of their UMPCs by using chips from AMD instead of Intel.
- Microsoft removes two key features from Office 2007 after being threatened with a lawsuit.
- Toshiba announces a 200 GB hard drive for portables.
- Loren Heiny shows off a plug-in that allows inking in Firefox.
- Panasonic announces a laptop with a touchscreen, but it’s not a convertable tablet!
- Some PC makers think folks want bigger portables. Much bigger.
- Several people are talking about blogging in ink.
- TEO 3.0 beta 2 is now available.
- Averatec releases new photos and information about their forthcoming AHI UMPC.
Stay tuned for our next episode! I hope to have a special guest with whom we’ll do something a little different…
Don’t forget that you can leave me a voicemail with your comments or questions right here!
Music:Intro: “Wallawalla” by Drop Trio
Outro: “Second First” by Drop Trio
(Music available at magnatune.com.)
June 14th, 2006 at 10:06 pm
[…] Perry brings some interesting info to the Tablet PC Show podcast, edition #37. In addition to his usual roundup of news about Tablet PCs and UMPCs, Perry talks about his adventure getting a new Tablet PC up and running. […]
June 21st, 2006 at 12:06 am
FYI - You didn’t need to buy that CD drive to install XP tablet. You were on the right track initially. The trick is to make a USB stick look to the laptop like a bootable floppy with DOS on it, have it load nothing but the basics (command.com, io.sys, etc & basic USB CD drivers), assign a drive letter to the CD drive so you can see it and run the install from CD.
June 21st, 2006 at 12:11 am
FYI part II - Essentially, you’re using the only device you are able to boot from to boot & load drivers so you can access the only device you are able to read your install media from.
Also, when assigning a drive letter to your USB CD it’s good to use D: or higher otherwise it may grab C: making it unavailable during the hard drive format and leaving your final XP build on a D: logical partition.