The mobile phone is in one pocket, the Palm Pilot in another, and the laptop is in the carrying case. Now make room for the tablet PC. In a crowd of technology gurus and early adopters locally last week, enthusiasm was genuinely high for the Microsoft-backed computers launched nationally Nov. 7. "I've been waiting for this for a long time," said Allen Theobald, chief software engineer for Object Methodologies in Covington. "I'm chomping at the bit to get ahold of one of these things. This is pure geekdom here."
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