This will be great. I think capacitive screens will be much better on UMPC's for writing with the pen -- the Wacom technology tends to be inaccurate around the edges, which is a big deal when working on a small device.

I think it will be great just because I want both touch and pen...
I hope they get over trying (well, not stop trying but in the mean time...) to automagically detect touch or pen.... just put a darn switch on the thing so I can turn off touch and use the pen with no worry of vector problems as I write. A nice three way or software switch would be nice... touch/pen/both(auto). I will be happy to take the half second to decide and lock it in before I use it. This is a much better idea than trying to automatically handle both all the time and having problems which make a mess that I have to clean up and which ultimately make it something I don't want to pick up to do the job I need to do.
Need pen for precise notes and drawings though...
And touch will be awesome with specialty big button apps to control the media and gps when I dock it up in the car...
Not to mention multi-touch for I'm not yet sure what...
But I do think that applications will surface for it and in a few years we will wonder how we ever did without it.
Touch and pen together make it a machine for multiple paradigms. Sweet!
Just give ME the power to control it while you keep working on auto part in the lab!

- m

Oh man, wouldn't that be a kick in the teeth for Dell, if wacom comes out with an all in one capacitive touch screen without a $1000 premium.

Mike,

The touch feature in Vista can be turned on or off via the Pen and input devices control panel. Still a bit too many clicks if you like to change back and forth often though. To do it quicker you can use the Touch Pointer task bar button.
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/ddea43b3-a732-4b18-8992-b23c3fdc25fc1033.mspx