| 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. |