News Low tablet PC sales causing a headache

From VNUnet:

Vendors are still struggling to shift tablet PCs, which currently represent less than one per cent of notebook sales - and Microsoft is getting the blame, according to analysts.

UK analyst firm Canalys argued that current low sales should not come as too much of a surprise and suggested that Microsoft, through its hardware partners, needs to put much more effort into pushing the category forward, particularly in EMEA.

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Unfortunate, really - I've played about with a tablet PC and it was pretty good. Problem is, I wouldn't swap it for my laptop, as my lappie is more versitile IMHO.

 

We have a few of them here at work for the doctors, but I would never buy one. Yea, they definetely have a sweet "coolness" to them, but in my opinion, they are WAY too overpriced for what they are and what they do.

 

Re: Re: Low tablet PC sales causing a headache

And so so so fragile. Even more so considering the price.

None of them seem to have a very user-friendly keyboard/mouse replacement either. The stylus was ok but the onscreen keyboards were pants.