Steve Ballmer demonstrates HP’s upcoming Windows 7-based “slate” PC. When I was a college student, I worked at my school’s on-campus computer store, and we normally had one or two tablets on display.

Tablet PCs, the portable computers with pen-based abilities, have been around since November 2002, but so far have not been widely embraced by consumers or businesses. The devices made up fewer than 2 ...

On Tuesday, Dell officially pulled the curtain off of its compact touch-screen tablet, dubbed the Streak, the computer giant's answer to the Apple iPad. The Streak (shown here in a mockup), which will ...

“Tablet PCs remain a niche product in the marketplace, used predominantly in vertical applications,” said Leslie Fiering, an analyst at Gartner Inc. in a recent conference presentation. The tablet ...

If you want to disable or turn off the tablet PC’s touch input, here is what you will have to do on a Windows 11/10 machine. A Local Group Policy setting and a Registry tweak will let you disable the ...

The HP TouchSmart 610xt is powerful and durable enough to do double duty as a PC and an interactive terminal. Image courtesy of HP Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...