Chapter 1. Introducing the Tablet PC

In This Chapter

• Your Digitizer Pen

• Tablet PC Pros and Cons

• Tablet PC Tutorials

• Thoughts About the Tablet PC's Future

There's no getting around it: The way you work with the Tablet PC is different from the way you work with all other computers. It's not just a touch-screen tablet, it's not just a laptop, and it's not just a Windows-based computer. It's different.

The fact that the Tablet PC is different scares lots of people, but it doesn't have to. In this chapter, I'll walk you through some of the basic aspects of the Tablet PC, including what you give up when you choose it for your main computing platform, what you get for switching, the common pitfalls people face when switching, and the new thinking processes you need to adopt to get the most out of your Tablet PC.