Paris Tablet PC Reunion
Posted by Olga Kits under Tablet PC , Travelling Tablet PCs , Tablet PC Hardware
Paris
Earlier this year C., a colleague of mine (see viral map), purchased an IBM Tablet PC after seeing my TC1100. She had never l heard of or seen Tablet PCs but was intrigued and purchased it soon after she met the tc1100. We’ve been working on a project here for two weeks in Paris and Rennes and I got to meet the newly purchased IBM Tablet PC firsthand. It’s quite light and sleek. Lynette is convinced that the resolution is not as good as our TC1100 though she prefers how the writing feels to the TC1100. It seems like a reasonable alternative once my TC1100 bites the dust, though I am still hopeful some manufacturer out there will produce a hybrid model. Lynette is possibly eyeing a Motion since she is quite the slate user.
No one asked once about the Tablet PC despite many hours of hanging out at brasseries though there were stares. No one asked. Perhaps more inhibited? Or not that hard core on technology like we are? This was quite a different experience than at home in Halifax at the coffee shop, Steve-o-reno’s. Today, the very nice man at the hotel asked if there was wireless close by because it was obvious that I must be doing something out there at all hours of the day. Yes yes there sure is. 
Here the TC1100 meets the IBM Tablet PC at an empty brasserie on Bldv du Montparnasse in Paris.
Au revoir from Paris where the duck and wine is excellent, where fruit is tasteful (yummy cherries and figs and more!), where zebra crossings are for zebras and and not humans, and where getting a taxi is a rare feat (I am sure that if there was less regulation on the taxi business it would defintely increase economic activity in Paris)!