steven n fettig's Jitterin' Thoughts

I stopped the Tablet PC experiment early. I really tried. I traveled with it, I read on it, I wrote notes on it, but there was one thing I couldn't deal with: Windows. I'm not a Windows hater. I think my problems had more to do with poorly written programs than the OS itself - but the way the OS is built certainly contributed to the problem.
My switch back to my MacBook came down to two issues: 1) I had to restore back to a previous restore points on eleven different occasions (because the Tablet PC functions suddenly stopped working) and 2) programs crashed and I could never really figure out why because the logging system in Windows is horribly inept. The constant restore point issue was the last straw Saturday night at 1 am. I had just finished installing VLC when I realized that I lost buttons and functions on the handwriting recognition part of the OS. I had already restored the system twice and simply was sick of it. My first experiences of OS X go back to the 10.1 days and I never had issues with OS X like I had with the Tablet (at the time, I had very, very little experience with Apple products - at this time, I've worked on a semi-regular basis with Windows machines for well over 10 years). There were many issues with not being able to find applications that did what I needed, but I didn't have the constant stability issues.
I wanted to write a longer posting about my experiences, but it really doesn't matter. The end effect is the same. While I really enjoyed the tablet functions of the X41, the trouble of dealing with the OS was not worth the effort. Until Apple (as a hardware and software manufacturer) or another OS that is like OS X is today (Tiger) comes up with a tablet device, I'm done. This is the third time I've experimented with the Tablet PC and each time has ended in utter failure. When I get back up to date with my work, I'll try to explain more.