Back on 05.03.09 I blogged about the pain I was suffering related to my TabletPC (the HP TC1100) hard drive failing with no warning.

Then I had a bunch of things to do: go on vacation, attend eTech, take on some new job responsibilities at work, go on work travel, and continue to have a very full schedule since then.

So … quickly moved over to a Compaq nw8000 laptop that was suppose to be server in a mobile demo presentation system to hold me over until I could get the TC1100 back and running. But I haven’t gone back yet to my TC1100, which I think was ready to go back to early last week.

Some reasons why I haven’t moved back to the TC1000 is because of some key features I didn’t realize I was missing until I started using a mainstream laptop day-to-day:

• Large screen with 1600 x 1200 resolution
• Faster processor (it feels 2x)
• Excellent sound output

But I am also missing from the TC1000 side:

• Mobile form factor (laptops have nothing on the TC1100 design)
• Weight (the nw8000 is pretty heavy and almost to big put into my backpack)
• Pen input (probably the thing I miss the most)

So … it looks like there is a big need to do a new market survey and see if I can get all this worked out.  Good news is that Microsoft WinHEC is going on and the coverage seems to point to some great new solutions coming out.  Also Eric Mack has done a ton of research recently and published it.

I do have to look a little closer at Michael Hyatt’s post "Why I Ditched My TabletPC" post.