Windows XP Tablet PC Edition - A Retrospective

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Today, we're finally taking an in-depth look at Windows XP Tablet PC Edition! I'll be discussing its history, and how it functions on a few tablet computers from the early 2000s!

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[ayan]

6:06 A FINGERPRINT READER IN AN MID 2000s??? It was ahead of its time.

[mjdxp]

Tablet computing sure has changed drastically since then. Very interesting video!

[DasDoubleD]

Michael, fun fact about the M200... the machine literally can't boot off of most USB CD drives, yet somehow the machine can boot from an SD card.

The laptop's innards with the Pentium M makes it pretty dang competitive with desktops of the time. I had one, sent it overseas to some relatives.

[PCWindowstechguy]

Very interesting retrospective about the windows XP tablet

[johnnguyen]

Love your videos Michael MJD. Another piece of ancient tech in the growing history of Technology.

Looking at this video, back when these tablets have a cool swivel keyboard adapter, were bulky, have a stylus and best of all; XP.

There’s a guy named “The Science Elf” who did a video of his own Windows XP tablet he picked up, recommend watching it.

[anony]

I just themed my windows 10 into windows xp. My taskbar, start button, and start menu all looks identical to windows xp.. It's nice for nostalgia.

[MaxwellKlinger]

this is unironically the best Microsoft product ever made

[francia]

Hey Michael_MJD, I heard online of a thing called “Microsoft Experience Pack for Tablet PC”, which according to them it introduced some Vista programs over to XP Tablet PC. It would be incredibly interesting if you could check out that pack, and not only on XP Tablet PC but also on other XP Editions! Love your vids

[Manveru]

I love watching your videos before going to sleep.

[horsedisposal]

One of my favorite things I own is an official Windows XP Tablet PC Edition polo shirt! I've never seen or used the hardware or software, so it's very interesting to see. It really reminds me of win 8's very touch screen forward design. I remember really wanting one of these back when they were being produced!

[phony]

This a great retrospective. I love watching your videos. Thanks again Michael!

[sheik]

You reminded me of the Acer Tablet PC I helped my father pick out when new EMR [electronic medical records] requirements "next year" had physicians convinced they'd all have to use the devices (or similar ones) to fill out "charts" the same way they did on paper in the 90s and earlier. Except most of the EMR solutions at the time had clunky, if any, pen support. "Next year" came and went and while they all definitely got rid of all the paper, EMR remained way less skeuomorphic and a lot more suited to natively being on a computer with a keyboard and mouse.

These things were all over the place [and almost exclusively used with a keyboard and mouse] in hospitals with big IT budgets to blow in the mid 00s. I wouldn't at all be surprised if the majority of devices like those InMotion tablets weren't sold exclusively to healthcare customers. It's kind of ironic how now that things like the Surface are ubiquitous and comparatively dirt cheap, *nobody* is keeping medical records on "digital paper". Instead you see people who need inking/pen support like football coaching staff using the hell out of them instead, or fans of 150 WPM ear rape on Cherry MX Blues or unsilenced Topres sticking to handwriting in a lecture hall instead of making enemies of their peers and professors. Guilty as charged, BTW.

Pretty sure that thing found itself a nice home with a relative overseas a year or two after he bought it. It having a Pentium M when most laptops available there still had NetBurst P4's, plus the maxed out RAM I added, still made it seem amazing, especially for a freebie...

lol, it's still in my NewEgg order history! Acer TravelMate TMC312XCi Intel Pentium M 740 (1.73 GHz) 512 MB Memory 14.1" 1024 x 768 Tablet PC Windows XP Tablet PC ... $1529 in 2005.

[Daa]

One of the real interesting facts about tablet PC's was that most had a pressure sensitive (sometimes even tilt sensitive) Wacom digitizer and pen! I use to have a used HP TC4400 and an HP Elitebook 2730p but the first one had screen issues then the second one had a dead keyboard.

[RavenholmZombie]

2003: $1900 for a single-core CPU and touchscreen.
2020: $300 for a touchscreen laptop with a quad-core CPU and gaming-capable IGPU or dedicated GPU.

My how far tech has come

[aarontrupiano]

4:20 updates are ready for your computer

[linux_doggo]

I dont know what it is about early 2000s technology but it always seemed more interesting to me than the modern stuff. Windows XP was (or still is) one of my favourite operating systems ever, and the fact that DVDs were still used at the time makes me happier than it should. And this pc was released when I was just 1!

[rafaelamadeus]

About the XP Tablet app (Sticky Notes, Journal, Inkball), they came before eventually included in general versions of Windows 7 (Inkball was Vista-only game).

[Speaksli]

Love your video. I launched the M1400 and LE1600 Tablet PCs from Motion. Those were fun days!

[jfitzpatrick]

Excellent Retro Review!
Enjoyed it immensely.
Thank you!

[AmethystLeslie]

I don't know if it was this tablet in particular, but there's a DCOM called "Read It And Weep" where the main character uses this tablet for her journal entries. I thought that was the coolest thing ever and I wanted one. I never did get one, modern smartphones exist, and I realized I preferred pen and paper for my own journal entries, but it's still a neat thing to exist at the time.