It is amazing it has taken the TabletPC to generate all this excitement surrounding digital ink. There have been blog posts like this one popping up in the last couple of weeks. Mac OSX has ink built in. All you need is a tablet like the Wacom Graphire which has been available for years. Hand recognition is built in as well so you can write and dump it as text into all applications it seems.
As well, the Graphire has been available for Windows for many years. There just aren't many apps that inherently support ink. Groove had to build a special ink chat tool for the TabletPC. Why that isn't available for one who has a perfectly good digital ink implement is a wonder to me (maybe it does so hopefully someone will correct me).
Dan Bricklin has an excellent article on Tablet Computer.
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