Never mastered touch typing well shame on you. In these days it is computers this and computers that and dinosaurs who can't touch type are being left behind.

Well they were until the reinvention of tablet PCs. I say "reinvention" because they have been around for 20 or so years but it is only recently that technology has become powerful enough to make them a useful device beyond the domains of architecture and CAD.

To those with challenged dexterity (that is you non-touch-typists) they are clearly a boon but will they take off. My guess is not that well and this is supported with sales figures to date which are falling well short of predictions. The trouble is that the people who buy "bleeding-edge" gadgets want power and tablet PCs to date have been occupying the lower end of the market power wise and the upper end price wise, always a really bad combination.

In their favour, Microsoft is firmly convinced that have a major role in future computing and, let's face it, Microsoft has been phenonemonly successful at predicting/engineering the market for hi tech products. If they are going to make it though they are going to have to improve their power and their gadget appeal.