Tablet PC
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What are your experiences with tablet PC's? Are there any good? I want to present it to my wife on her birthday. (Mainly because I will get to use it too probably more than her). Any suggestions/advice?
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They are pretty much just laptops that can use a stylus. I haven't seen anything much different. Matt Newman
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What are your experiences with tablet PC's? Are there any good? I want to present it to my wife on her birthday. (Mainly because I will get to use it too probably more than her). Any suggestions/advice?
Somewhere in the world there is a machine language programmer waiting for that damned assembly language fad to pass. - Stan Shanon
I have been doing development of a Tablet PC based Ink enabled medical application for a couple months now, and have been using a Fujitsu Stylistic Tablet and find it very handy. I would like to have Ink enabled versions of Office for it, however, since the only Ink Enabled application on the Tablet is the Windows Journal. I've yet to try OneNote, but from what I've read about it, and the screens I've seen, appears it will resolve many of the short-commings of the Journal. My Cons list: 1. Don't like the digital keyboard that you must use when the Tablet is not docked; I would rather have a Tablet PC with a flip over keyboard so the unit could be used as a "laptop" when needed. 2. Screen colors do not match colors on a desktop unit 3. Hand Writing Rec. is GREATLY lacking - as in - trying to convert from Ink to Text is a pain, not worth it. 4. If it's NOT on, you'll find waiting for your Tablet to boot-up is more time consuming than grabbing a post-it note and a pen to jot something down. My Pros list: 1. Replaces paper - I no longer use a notepad for anything and using it in meetings is excellent (see sharing notes below) 2. Searchable ink - no more "hunting for a note you wrote" 3. Share your notes has never been easier (I can't stand photocopy machines), even with those on NON-Tablet PCs, they can use Windows Journal to view and print Inked notes! 4. It's a full-blown, fully portable PC and not just a "Big Palm" If you have specific questions, ask, I'll try to answer them as best as I can ... FYI - once your wife starts to use it, you can kiss it good-bye. D.
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I have been doing development of a Tablet PC based Ink enabled medical application for a couple months now, and have been using a Fujitsu Stylistic Tablet and find it very handy. I would like to have Ink enabled versions of Office for it, however, since the only Ink Enabled application on the Tablet is the Windows Journal. I've yet to try OneNote, but from what I've read about it, and the screens I've seen, appears it will resolve many of the short-commings of the Journal. My Cons list: 1. Don't like the digital keyboard that you must use when the Tablet is not docked; I would rather have a Tablet PC with a flip over keyboard so the unit could be used as a "laptop" when needed. 2. Screen colors do not match colors on a desktop unit 3. Hand Writing Rec. is GREATLY lacking - as in - trying to convert from Ink to Text is a pain, not worth it. 4. If it's NOT on, you'll find waiting for your Tablet to boot-up is more time consuming than grabbing a post-it note and a pen to jot something down. My Pros list: 1. Replaces paper - I no longer use a notepad for anything and using it in meetings is excellent (see sharing notes below) 2. Searchable ink - no more "hunting for a note you wrote" 3. Share your notes has never been easier (I can't stand photocopy machines), even with those on NON-Tablet PCs, they can use Windows Journal to view and print Inked notes! 4. It's a full-blown, fully portable PC and not just a "Big Palm" If you have specific questions, ask, I'll try to answer them as best as I can ... FYI - once your wife starts to use it, you can kiss it good-bye. D.
Thanks. That was quite helpful. I am little bit confused you say that handwriteing rec is greatly lacking yet you say that using it in meeting is excellent.
Somewhere in the world there is a machine language programmer waiting for that damned assembly language fad to pass. - Stan Shanon
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What are your experiences with tablet PC's? Are there any good? I want to present it to my wife on her birthday. (Mainly because I will get to use it too probably more than her). Any suggestions/advice?
Somewhere in the world there is a machine language programmer waiting for that damned assembly language fad to pass. - Stan Shanon
In my experience Tablet PC's were good to access data for reference but doing any amount of input on it was highly annoying. There is alot more screen real estate which is very nice for pulling data down and reviewing but click typing with your stylus gets old very fast.
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What are your experiences with tablet PC's? Are there any good? I want to present it to my wife on her birthday. (Mainly because I will get to use it too probably more than her). Any suggestions/advice?
Somewhere in the world there is a machine language programmer waiting for that damned assembly language fad to pass. - Stan Shanon
Rama Krishna wrote: I want to present it to my wife on her birthday Are you still taking her on holiday somewhere? :)
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Thanks. That was quite helpful. I am little bit confused you say that handwriteing rec is greatly lacking yet you say that using it in meeting is excellent.
Somewhere in the world there is a machine language programmer waiting for that damned assembly language fad to pass. - Stan Shanon
I realized that when I responded, my response wasn't clear as well. Let me try this again .. The Hand Writing Rec. is only used when you convert your hand written notes to TEXT. The rec. built into the Tablet are only good with Script and not block print, which is how I write. Because of this, I keep my notes saved as ink, instead of coverting them to text. hope that helps ...
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Rama Krishna wrote: I want to present it to my wife on her birthday Are you still taking her on holiday somewhere? :)
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog Photography - The product of my passionMegan Forbes wrote: Are you still taking her on holiday somewhere? Unfortunately, the plan got canceled due to reasons beyond my control. So I decided to get something else like Tablet PC or a Notebook.
Somewhere in the world there is a machine language programmer waiting for that damned assembly language fad to pass. - Stan Shanon
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Megan Forbes wrote: Are you still taking her on holiday somewhere? Unfortunately, the plan got canceled due to reasons beyond my control. So I decided to get something else like Tablet PC or a Notebook.
Somewhere in the world there is a machine language programmer waiting for that damned assembly language fad to pass. - Stan Shanon
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I have been doing development of a Tablet PC based Ink enabled medical application for a couple months now, and have been using a Fujitsu Stylistic Tablet and find it very handy. I would like to have Ink enabled versions of Office for it, however, since the only Ink Enabled application on the Tablet is the Windows Journal. I've yet to try OneNote, but from what I've read about it, and the screens I've seen, appears it will resolve many of the short-commings of the Journal. My Cons list: 1. Don't like the digital keyboard that you must use when the Tablet is not docked; I would rather have a Tablet PC with a flip over keyboard so the unit could be used as a "laptop" when needed. 2. Screen colors do not match colors on a desktop unit 3. Hand Writing Rec. is GREATLY lacking - as in - trying to convert from Ink to Text is a pain, not worth it. 4. If it's NOT on, you'll find waiting for your Tablet to boot-up is more time consuming than grabbing a post-it note and a pen to jot something down. My Pros list: 1. Replaces paper - I no longer use a notepad for anything and using it in meetings is excellent (see sharing notes below) 2. Searchable ink - no more "hunting for a note you wrote" 3. Share your notes has never been easier (I can't stand photocopy machines), even with those on NON-Tablet PCs, they can use Windows Journal to view and print Inked notes! 4. It's a full-blown, fully portable PC and not just a "Big Palm" If you have specific questions, ask, I'll try to answer them as best as I can ... FYI - once your wife starts to use it, you can kiss it good-bye. D.
Douglas Troy wrote: 1. Don't like the digital keyboard that you must use when the Tablet is not docked; I would rather have a Tablet PC with a flip over keyboard so the unit could be used as a "laptop" when needed. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-964648.html[^] This is the one I'm saving up for. Pretty slick.
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What are your experiences with tablet PC's? Are there any good? I want to present it to my wife on her birthday. (Mainly because I will get to use it too probably more than her). Any suggestions/advice?
Somewhere in the world there is a machine language programmer waiting for that damned assembly language fad to pass. - Stan Shanon
We have a couple of corporate Execs using Compaqs Tablet PC. Overall they are extremely pleased with it. It's pretty obvious that its a "version 1" piece of technology but everything we've done with it has worked out very well. The only complaint we've had on them is that XP takes about 4 times as long to startup from a cold system than a normal laptop. It is a bit insanely long. But otherwise, the Office Xp apps with the Tablet PC pack worked great, the handwriting recognition was well above average and hardly ever missed. If anything its definitely looking promising. Mark Conger Sonork:100.28396