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Syllabus Magazine
Wed., Sept. 1, 2004
Tablet PCs: The Killer App for Higher Education
By Paul Asay
Although the laptop computer boasts the obvious advantages of screen size and hard drive capacity, it does have some deficiencies. Laptops take up most of a student's desktop. Once the laptop is open, the screen partially blocks the student’s view of the lecturer. Limited typing ability also hinders laptop use. PocketPC and Palm devices are in many ways more suited to classroom use, but are somewhat limited by their small screen size and the frustrating amount of scrolling required to access Web pages.
The Tablet PC may just land in that elusive middle ground between the bigger laptop and small pocket-sized device. Although the initial device designs vary, the concept is to have something the size of a writing tablet, about 8 inches by 10 inches and less than 1 inch thick. It has the functions of a laptop, but has digital ink technology so that users can write on it with a stylus similar to pen and paper. The operating system is a unique version of Windows XP with the digital ink and related software.