Powerbook with Windows XP Tablet edition??

[vniow]

I just found this on /.

Go here (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/tabletpc/evaluation/tours/default.asp#), click on the Tablet PC overview demo, it'll open in a new window.
Wait for it to load and then click 'Tablet PC', then click the 'Powerful'http://img.ranchoweb.com/images/veronica/rolleyes.gif tab.
When it loads you should see something like this:

note: web pic flipped for easier comparison

[Sun Baked]

Nice working demo, flip 180, scrub logos, and insert something in the expansion bay - then call it the "modern PC".

Mac users will call it a PowerBook from the mid-1990s. :)

Nice to know that pre-G3/G4 PowerBooks are in-style for future PC designs.

[DreaminDirector]

look at how horrible the photoshoping on the floppy drive is! Poor poor MicroSloth... it's almost sad to see a company with so much money, suck so bad in innovation and taste (sans using the image of the old powerbook...)

PC tablet blows....

[DannyZR2]

I don't know if I'm convinced it is the Powerbook.. many notebooks look alike.. how can we be sure... what is it you think, a Kanga? I'm not too familiar with pre pismo books...

Very close form factor though... why would they do it???

[DreaminDirector]

Actually something like this came up a few months ago, in another of Microsloth's ads. Here the thread with the pic (thanks to zarathustra). It's about midway down the page.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12101&highlight=interesting

That image is definately the Pismo. And the image above is also a powerbook. Which one, I'm not sure, but the image is identical (when you flip it, of course....)