>I am curious why you have made this decision. It seems to me that a $400-$500 PC with a touch screen would be much more 'economically' feasable than putting a $3000 device at every POS?

The most expensive Tablet PC is $3500CAN (2,303.95 USD). Compaq has a model that is $2200CAN (1,448.30 USD). This isn't a huge burden.

Imagine the cost saving in development time and training time if one day you need to go portable or wireless. You are using the same code base.

>Not that it is the wrong decision, I wonder what spending this type of overhead buys you over a standard PC. I assume you are going to rely heavily on the handwritting recognition?

The great thing about the TabletPC is that you can use the keyboard, the onscreen keyboard, or handwriting. Staff can do whatever is easiest for them.