The Ink-Gods have heard me

Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 5:18 am. 0 comments

I’m beginning to think there’s a Tablet PC fairy smiling down on me.  I previously posted that if you want my attention right now you’ll post about the touchscreen-enabled portables, and lo and behold people do.  The object of my lusts remains Lenovo’s X60t, despite the apparent lack of customisation options on their UK site, and so it’s good to see TabletPC2’s Review Tzar Linda Epstein award the MultiTouch version of it her coveted “Editors Choice”; Marc Orchant’s first-impressions are similarly stellar, and lest you think it’s only the pen-faithful who are enchanted along come I4U to say:

“Without any stretch of the imagination, the X60 could easily be a favourite of many large IT departments and tablet PC enthusiasts” I4U Review

No surprise, then, that I’ve already been on to Lenovo’s PR people and am on the waiting list for a review unit. 

The other piece of tabletty-goodness is that my good bud Ewdi (who got married yesterday - congratulations Mr Ewdi and Mrs Ewdi!) sent me over a Samsung Q1 UMPC to use while my tc1100 continues to suffer.  It’s the first time I’ve had my hands on one, and while passive touchscreens take some getting used to when you’re more familiar with active ones it’s nonetheless an awesome little gadget.  Having read Steve’s ultra-handy guide to setting up a streaming multi-room audio system I’ve now got another thing on my to-do list.  Perhaps I’ll couple that up with trying out Windows Home Server, since I got accepted onto the beta test for it.

Of course, no blog entry would be complete without my traditional hat-tip to Mike Cane, who I’m coming to consider as my spiritual creepy-cousin.  He’s been playing with a Q1 too, and I’m glad to hear that he’s suitably impressed.  Given Mike’s general attitude toward, well, life, that’s high praise indeed.

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