Tablet PCs: Ready for Prime Time

PC Magazine has reviewed a bunch of the first wave of Tablet PCs and, perhaps surprisingly, finds them Ready for Prime Time . Battery life varies and machines with Transmeta Crusoe processors are dog slow ("The PIII-M ULV machines outpaced the TM5800-powered tablets by up to 83 percent on Business Winstone"). But even if you are mad keen on the idea, there doesn't seem much point in buying a Tablet PC until you can get one with a Centrino chip set and software with pen support, if only a copy of OneNote from the next version of Microsoft Office.