I was wandering around Best Buy the other day with my older sister whilst we waited for her boyfriend to go on his lunch break when I found that they carried Toshiba's Protege 3505 Tablet PC. I'd never seen a tablet PC before, at least not up close and in person. It was the first time I ever saw a laptop. I was amazed, charmed by its swiveling screen and left breathless by its weight (or lack thereof) and portability.

I didn't get to play with it a lot because it was in demo mode, but I did get to see how the screen spins around and folds down over the keyboard to form a tablet, and locks back into the upright position to form a notebook. The display was pretty sharp, but I didn't get to see how fast it was. The over package was stunningly streamlined, impressive, well-designed, and in a word, pretty. My only complaints were that someone had stolen the stylus (they really should attach those things with metal chains), and the CD drive (DVD-ROM, actually) is external. I suppose when the body is that small and compact, you can't really fit much.

The pluses, though, are that it comes with USB 2.0 connections (one step closer to FireWire. Go Microsoft, go.) and integrated WiFi. In time, they'll become more affordable (and I mean WAY more affordable than $2300), and we'll all have one. In the meantime, the few of you who do have oodles of cash can click on the link below and indulge yourselves right now.