The Tablet Input Panel, or TIP, as it is known, became the first potential weak spot that Convertible preyed upon.
Slate, on the other hand, used the pen as some sort of a guilt mechanism: if you don't use ink you might be some kind of tablet renegade. The referee had to step in and give a trademark warner-ing about low blows. Convertible might lose a point if it continues to bash below the TIP. The judges seem to favor Convertible in a rather pathetic first round for Slate.This could get ugly folks, round two coming up!