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I bumped into Aaron Parker<\/a> at tonight’s Windows Server\/Active Directory\/Vista joint user group meeting<\/a> and he showed me his latest toy: a Dell Latitude XT2 tablet PC. The great thing about this tablet is that it works with the stylus and with fingers, so you can use the multitouch features in Windows 7 but also use the stylus to write notes.<\/p>\n

I’ve raved about tablets before<\/a> but this one is sweet, in fact Dell seem to have a lot of nice computers right now, although I tend to favour ThinkPads and the Lenovo ThinkPad X200 looks good too (besides which: my faith in Dell has never recovered from the D600 I used when I worked at Conchango<\/a>; I have to use Fujitsu kit at work; and justifying a \u00c2\u00a31500 tablet PC would be a bit difficult in today’s economic climate)… anyway, Aaron’s written up his experiences of Windows 7 on the XT2 over at his Stealth Puppy blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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