But since getting my laptop, I don't even bring the Tablet PC home from work anymore. I haven't even turned it on in the last 3 days. I need to start thinking about why this has happened if I expect to have any advice for MS to try to get the platform back on track.
What do we need? Better synchronization? More power? (I'm no electronics engineer but how cool would it be to have a Tablet PC that when docked, added a second, more powerful processor to the system...) It isn't the battery life because my Electrovaya kills my laptop in that area. Weight too.
Alot of it has to do with a lack of applications targeted for Tablet PC. And I'm talking about real applications. Not power toys, utils, demos, games, etc. Aside from TEO, OneNote, Snipping Tool, and Word, I never found anything else to be “sticky” enough to get consistent use from me.
I dunno. I don't have the answers. Just wondering what I have to do to get excited about this $2200 piece of paper again.
I don't think my computer habits really changed. I think I was trying to force my habits to fit the Tablet PC form factor.
I don't really mind having a slate because I have a dock at work. But I think at the end of the day when I'm deciding "Do I take home the laptop or the Tablet PC?" the thing it always comes back to is "What will I want to do tonight that I won't want to wait till tomorrow for?"
Since my Tablet PC has a much lower HD capacity (40 GB vs 80 GB) I don't keep my whole music library on it. Not to mention the speakers stink on most Tablet PC's. I also hate developing on a Tablet PC. I've always hated that. My Toshiba Satellite (17" 3.2 Ghz 1.5 GB RAM) is an awesome development machine.
But when I am in bed watching TV I wish I had brought home the Tablet PC. It's hard to choose. But the laptop usually wins. Capabilities over form factor I guess.
Oh I almost forgot to mention, one bad side effect of using the laptop over the Tablet PC... I am much worse at organization. With the Tablet PC, I felt "compelled" to document my day in the Outlook Journal with TEO, I always took down notes and meeting information. Never do it on the laptop.