TC1100 tablet spotted in Big Bang Theory – my Geekest post ever! Win! While watching the TV show Big Bang Theory, I spotted an HP TC1100 being used by Shelden. For those of you who do not know about the TC1100; its a VERY cool tablet convertible PC that was originally designed by Compaq. Here is some background info from Wikipedia. Now what is missing from this… Read More
HP TC1100 in popular culture As a TC1100 fan, I was looking up installing Windows 8 on my machine. Although installing the wifi card is a bit tricky you can still do it. And for fun I checked up on the TC1100 wiki page only to see the reference to popular culture section deleted! WTH? So I grabbed an old… Read More
Tablets will be like calculators when I was a kid. But it wont be an iPad Late last year when the Kindle Fire came out, pundits were saying, ‘oh this is going to be an iPad killer’ To which most of us in tech with 1/2 a clue basically ignored them and instead asked who was going to win this new market and how long will it be till Apple looks… Read More
Apples New $600 Tablet is more iPhone then netbook; that is why it will fail I have been a tablet (convertible) user for a long time. Recently; I bought an older TC1100 with a SSD instead of a hard drive and installed Windows 7 on it. Amazing! But that is for another post. I originally wanted an Apple tablet… but that’s not going to happen, and here is why. The… Read More
When you run out of Karma… (Updated) Never spend all your Karma in one place. (updated) My bad week started Sunday night and I’m hoping it ends tonight… (it didnt) Sunday I take my tablet computer, the tc1100 (the only used tablet that is costing more as it gets older) with me on a visit to my nieces and nephews in Sacto.… Read More