In 2002, it launched the stylus-based Windows XP Tablet PC. Its strength was in its handwriting recognition software, but the tablet tried to jam PC-level RAM, storage and CPU into a tablet.

See Windows tablet, Ultra-Mobile PC and tablet. Tablet PCs from Fujitsu and Electrovaya Weighing three to four pounds with 20 to 40GB hard drives, Tablet PCs emerged in the early and mid-2000s.

The new Tablet PC is a pen-based computer that uses special software cooked up by the brainiacs in Redmond. (The actual machines will be built and marketed by the usual suspects in the PC business.) ...

The Pros & Cons of a Tablet PC. With their growing popularity and convenient portability, tablet PCs are often a worthwhile investment for business owners who are constantly on the go. However ...

The second, more common type of Tablet PC to become prevalent during this time, was the convertible tablet. These models featured a rotating screen that allowed the computer to be oriented either ...

The "PC tablet" needs to be better than the "post-PC tablet." Microsoft appears to have made a key assumption: that the PC can bring useful things to tablet users, who will be better off with a PC ...

Some, known as convertibles, have screens that can rotate 180 degrees and fold down to create a tablet. Others follow a more traditional, tablet-only route. HP's Compaq Tablet PC TC1000 does both.

Ten years ago Microsoft released its Tablet PC, with Bill Gate saying “within five years I predict it will be the most popular form of PC sold in America.” Things didn’t work out that way ...