Tablet PCs: Are you buying one?

silicon.com poll: Tell us if you're taking to touchscreens or holding onto your keyboard

Tablets are the hottest tech hardware around right now, with manufacturers exhorting us to dump keyboards and let our fingers do the talking on shiny capacitive touchscreens instead.

Whether it's the Apple iPad, the BlackBerry PlayBook or the Dell Streak, new touchscreen hardware is appearing on an almost daily basis.

But are you buying into the idea of owning a tablet? Are you preparing to give up your keyboard and embrace the touchscreen lifestyle?

Perhaps you're just waiting until the price drops a little or maybe you can think of nothing worse than a touchscreen tucked into your briefcase where a laptop should be.

We want to know what you think, so let us know in our latest silicon.com reader poll. Simply click the option that you agree with and hit 'vote', and the result so far will be revealed. We'll publish the final findings in a few weeks.