When I first thought about buying a tablet, I always thought it might just be a gimmick. I can do everything with a keyboard, why would I want to use a pen. My previous experiences with PDAs left me less than enthralled, but I reasoned that I would at least end up using a pen to browse the web one handed while relaxing on the sofa in the evening so it would be worth it.

How wrong I was! What I am actually finding is that keyboard has become the input method to be used only when I had nothing else. I use pen to write text of course but some of the things I've also done with a pen in preference to a keyboard surprise me. For example,

• One line code changes in Visual Studio - even down to the semi-colon ;
• FTP - more text that you must get right and without a dictionary to help
• Copying and Pasting (flicks)
• Screen grabs (Snipping Tool)
• Draw some notes and expose my handwriting to the world!

In fact the most surprising thing is that my wife even uses it with a pen, although to quote "I only like making the cursor follow it round, it bugs me if I want to do some work"