Pencil Déjà Vu ?

Here is what 12 years of evolution brings to pen / tablet computing. 2003 Compaq TC-1000 vs 2015 iPad Pro. Both are 12 inch screens. Both run 6 hours on a battery Both capable of running Microsoft Office. Both have detachable keyboards and can be used as tablets. Apple pencil is slimmer and longer compared to the Microsoft pen. But the pen has an eraser.

The Compaq could be configured with up to 1.20 GHz processor, 60 GB storage, 2 GB RAM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and was running Windows XP Tablet OS with excellent support for pen input, including background OCR and indexing. Not that very much different than the iPad...

For some reason we are running in circles... I have a feeling Microsoft has wasted most of those years... Because now very few remember how pen computing was on Windows 12 years ago. But wait, Windows Ink is coming back this Summer. And the Huawei MateBook seems like a perfect device for the Ink. Time to switch back?