document: Putting pen to screen on Tablet PCs With the release of the first Tablet PCs produced to Microsoft Corp. 's general specifications , handheld computers may be about to leap into the ring with today 's laptops . They will be about the size of the smaller laptops , will be at least as powerful , and maybe their biggest selling point-will be able to handle handwritten text . The Tablet PCs will be amply configured , general-purpose machines with more than enough power to run the full-blown Windows XP operating system . In particular , they will allow handwritten text to be entered onto a digitizing tablet and recognized , a functionality that 's called pen-based computing . The Tablet PC will far outpace the computing power of existing small devices such as PDAs -LRB- personal digital assistants -RRB- , including those variants based on Microsoft 's own Pocket PC operating system
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