Hewlett-Packard plans to discontinue a mini-notebook from its Compaq Evo line
in favor of the company's upcoming tablet PC design for businesses. The company
will replace its lightweight
Evo Notebook N200 with its upcoming Evo tablet PC, a portable computer based
on Microsoft's Tablet PC software.
HP plans to introduce several new Evo models over the next few months. Tablet PCs,
actively touted by Microsoft
as the next wave in portable computing, are small computers that can be "written"
on, just as pad of paper, with a pen-like stylus. The Evo tablet PC will be roughly
the same size and weight as Evo Notebook N200, a notebook that weighs 2.5 pounds
and sells for about $1,500.
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