Comments on: First ThinkPad tablet set for debut

Lenovo will launch convertible version of its X41 notebook, CNET News.com has learned. Will the product propel tablet sales?
Photos: First convertible ThinkPad

[bhtooefr]

X41T not first tablet ThinkPad

For that matter, it's not the first convertible tablet TP, either.

The ThinkPad 700T, which was part of the first line of ThinkPads ever, was a "slate" style tablet. It was actually designed BEFORE the 700 (first ThinkPad ever) or the 700C (first color ThinkPad), but released after. In fact, the ThinkPad name was given to what became the 700T, and the others happened to get it.

The ThinkPad 750P was a convertible tablet, much like today's tablets. Look stuff up at: http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:750P

The ThinkPad 360P/PE (difference was CPU) were convertibles that folded... a bit differently.
http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:360P and http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:360PE

This is just the first tablet (or convertible) ThinkPad in over 10 years.

[barryp3403]

Tablet pc's- niche product

The keyboard will not soon be supplanted by the tablet concept. I bought a tablet nine months ago for work but soon found that just improving my keyboard skills was much less clunky then handwriting recognition. If you need to fill in short forms all day then, yes, a tablet pc is the way to go. But most of us don't do this as our major activity.

Tables Around Since 1997

I remember working on a Toshiba with the exact same feature, a laptop that you could convert into a tablet PC, and that was in 1997, so they've been around since before 2002.

Jerry J. Davis
http://www.jjdavis.net