I am a little put off by the findings in the article. As I kept getting closer and closer to wanting a Tablet PC for myself, reading this really made me think twice about adding it to my wishlist…

Eric Mack, the guy who spent days keeping readers in suspense over opening and configuring his shiny new Toshiba M4 Tablet PC turned on his Tablet PC and discovered the dreaded missing/corrupt OS errors. Uh oh. It gets worse. He needs the master boot disk to repair which Toshiba didn’t provide. He hasn’t had the M4 that long before this crash (May 19 - August 25, wee bit more than 90 days) which makes me suspicious of their drive durability (is that what caused this? Or was it some program Eric installed that knocked it out of whack?). Can’t base any opinion on one bad experience, of course, because I’ve had drives and Windows go bad before. My Sony VAIO has had the drive replaced once in five years, it just seems awful quick for their to be HD problems. Maybe it’s just the OS though and the HD is fine? One would expect for the extra expense of Tablet PCs that the drives are more durable, if that turns out to be the problem … let’s hope for Eric’s sake that it didn’t die after barely 90 days. [Read the rest]