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Compaq TC 1000

A lady here at work was cleaning out her cube yesterday in order to prepare for her relocation to her home office. For whatever the reason may be (my charisma?? charm?? stylin’ goat-tee??) people still insist on asking me questions or asking me for help even though I have been here the least length of time. At any rate, she brings me a HP bag filled with a….Compaq TC 1000 Tablet PC!!! What is it? Well, it is a really, really small laptop with a remote pen (please do not say stylus as the pen is battery powered and the screen is not a touch screen), a detachable keyboard and a docking station (if you need the DVD drive). Pretty gay? I thought so until I found some more memory for it, cleaned off the useless junk to get a decent running Windows XP Tablet Edition SP2, 488Mb of memory with a 1Gz (okay 998Mhz) processor.

What is it good for? Whatever I think of. It has a 802.11b card, so I can use it at home to remote my other computers via my wireless router. I can use it at work (wired or wirelessly) to do that same, to take notes (didn’t forget it was a tablet, did you??), to dictate, browse the internet, and so on. And I almost forgot…..it just looks really cool.