Any good tablets for writing down notes in class?

[ibex333]

Are there any devices out there that actually WORK, and WORK WELL, for quickly writing down notes in class so they can be later moved to the home PCs hard drive and saved?

What I want to do is to just write directly on the screen, If the device can recognize my writing and then convert it to any font text - even better, if not, I'm ok with that too.

So does something like that exist?

I heard there are digital pens that save what you write as you write it. But I keep seeing negative reviews online about these pens. Apparently they don't work nearly as well as they should.