Comment M$ and IBM have been doing that for years.. (Score 1) 116
I remember back when i was about 6 or 7 (circa 89/90) dad bought home an NEC 'pen' computer that ran 'Microsoft Windows For Pen 1.0' (which was basically windows 3.11 but designed for the touch screen)... It was about the 2cm thick and the size of an A4 hardback book.
IBM have also been making them for years but they're much bigger and chunkier and heavier... and a *lot* more expensive. When i was doing work experience at their laptop centre here in melbourne one of the ones they sold to telstra (our biggest telco) came back covered in mud (one of their field techs had dropped it in the mud) and they were gonna have to replace just about every part of it (and charge telstra $20k to do so)
IBM have also been making them for years but they're much bigger and chunkier and heavier... and a *lot* more expensive. When i was doing work experience at their laptop centre here in melbourne one of the ones they sold to telstra (our biggest telco) came back covered in mud (one of their field techs had dropped it in the mud) and they were gonna have to replace just about every part of it (and charge telstra $20k to do so)
