Re: [Fsfe-uk] MS in education

[Ramanan Selvaratnam]

On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 10:39, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 December 2003 9:19 am, Tom Coady wrote:
> > Yesterday's Guardian came with a 16 page glossy drop out aimed at the
> > academic sector and explaining to them that the way ahead is tablet PCs
> > with wireless connectivity. It will save them money it reckons. I reckon
> > the tablets will get nicked and the wireless hacked, but I may be too
> > cynical.
> 
> The flavour here locally seems to be tablets as well, which I find bizarre 
> when you could easily buy 3 standard PCs for the price of a tablet.  But bear 
> in mind that a lot of LE "IT support" organisations may like the idea of 
> messing about with new "cutting-edge" stuff, because it's more interesting, 
> and because no-one expects it to work flawlessly (so no-one will get annoyed 
> if it doesn't, unlike ordinary PCs).  

Doesn't Transmeta and alike knock out fully supported (ie, features like
handwriting recognition) free tablets?

I am sure I saw them in LinuxDevices.com. 
I could be wrong with what are the 'features' required. 

Regards,

Ramanan