Geek Toys

I’ve been somewhat distracted of late and neglecting my blogging. Nothing untoward. Part of it has been because of building work here at the farmhouse, part of it is because the garden is waking up unseasonably early from its winter sleep. But part of it is because I have acquired a new toy.

I’ve been longing to get a Tablet PC for some time now. Ever since I had the chance to play with the first Tablet PC that HP brought to the market back in 2003. Needless to say, that first model had limitations, but now with the latest generation of models I feel we are at the point where it’s worth my investing in a tablet for myself.

I’ve gone for the latest HP Tablet for the consumer market: the HP TX2000. This entry is being blogged on it using the handwriting recognition capabilities of windows Vista – which I have to say are quite scarily impressive, even with my appalling handwriting.

Thanks to its wireless capabilities I can now use the Tablet in the house and garden, and even listen to music that is being streamed from my music collection held on my Windows Home Server. At the moment I’m being serenaded by Cecilia Bartoli giving her all to Vivaldi. Bliss.