The Tablet PC Show #052 (MP3 – 16.9MB – 49 min)
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Welcome to episode 52 of the Tablet PC Show! I’m back from chilly Buffalo, New York to Tampa, Florida.
News & Updates:

The Tablet PC team at Microsoft has a blog and they’ve released their “Windows Vista Secrets for Tablet PC” which are [...]

The system maintenance is over and everything should be back to normal. Additionally, everything should respond a bit faster, too.
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THOMAS J. FITZGERALD from the NYT has written a great article on the Tablet PC. It’s worth a read. Nothing new, just a history on why the adoption has been so slow and some of the new models coming out.

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The rumors of a IBM Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet PC can now be put to bed with the announcement of the X41. The X41 is the long awaited entry of IBM Lenovo into the Tablet PC market and the specs coupled with the ThinkPad brand should put more Tablet PCs into the corporate domain. [...]

I have mentioned The Vermont Slate in the past which is the work of Mark Payton of the Vermont Academy. They have a comprehensive program that is putting Tablet PCs in the hands of their students and more importantly giving them the skill sets needed to maximize the benefits that students can derive from [...]

Geeks.com has a refurbished Averatec AV3500T60-01R on sale for only $879! The C3500 uses an Athlon XP-M 2200 processor and is a first generation Tablet PC meaning it does not have Tablet Edition 2005 installed on it. The Averatec has decent hardware specs and comes with a complete kit including a zippered case [...]

Tablet PC Show co-host and good buddy Marc Orchant is everywhere. He recently had a chance to sit down with my Lockergnome boss Chris Pirillo and get himself interviewed. It’s a great show as you would expect when Chris and Marc get together so head on over and give it a listen. [...]

You’ve got to love the FCC when you’re craving information for rumored devices and these pics found on the FCC site depict an IBM Thinkpad X41 Tablet PC. No real surprises in these pics, the depicted Tablet looks just like a Thinkpad. Except, of course, for the swivel screen. :) [...]

The Inkernet is all abuzz about an article on Microsoft Watch that hints at a “mini-Tablet that can do everything that a traditional Tablet PC can do, plus store electronic books”. First of all I should point at that current Tablet PCs are a great platform for reading ebooks- a smaller size would just [...]