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It's TabletPC day!

Two of my friends' parents work together in a medical practice and have those Fujitsu tabletPCs. They moved to a 'paperless' office - so they just bring up the files on the tabletPCs and don't need to worry about charts or anything.

They're very pleased with them.
 
Microsoft has a nice Flash presentation of the different models. link

The Toshiba is just way to bulky. The Viewsonic is just damn ugly. I'm leaning towards the Fujitsu or the Compaq.
 
The Toshiba is just way to bulky.
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What? its rather small, same size as most superslim notebooks.

Also most of the tablets have 10.4in screens which is SMALL! I would really like to get me a Protege 3500, but I am waitting for the Banais to hit...
 
Originally posted by: ai42
The Toshiba is just way to bulky.
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What? its rather small, same size as most superslim notebooks
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Blah. It's 1.3" thick and clumsy looking while the HP/Compaq is .8" and sleek as hell. I just wish the Compaq didn't use the Crusoe.
 
Originally posted by: Jellomancer
Why is that article treating tablets like a new concept? I have a tablet with a monochrome screen, Pentium 75, and Win95...
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I know, they've been available in some form or another for a while. As someone who works in interactive TV development, it always annoys me when a TV/computer combo comes out each year and they tout it as something totally new. But in this case, MS has finally made Windows specifically for a tablet format. Some people want to complain about how it's nothing new, I just like what they're finally becoming.

 
Actually next Friday is "Tablet PC day"...unless you're referring to the fact that a few places have them available a little ahead of schedule. They are having launch events next Friday where they will be giving away Tablet PCs...I'm going and coming back with one. 🙂
 
Speaking of Tablets, does anyone know if any of the initial models will offer built-in Bluetooth? A Microsoft employee I talked to said the Motion was did, but they don't mention it on their site.
 
Originally posted by: Jellomancer
Why is that article treating tablets like a new concept? I have a tablet with a monochrome screen, Pentium 75, and Win95...
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Yeah, how many times can they launch this "new concept"?
 
they did a review of the tablet pc's on The Screensavers tonight. Their advice was to stay away from them for personal use, though they are better in professional atmospheres.
 
If the price was right (like $400 or less), I could picture one in our house. With a dedicated wireless internet connection, it would be nice to have a computer that would be small and portable for surfing the web. But the prices that I'm seeing put it in mid-range laptop pricing. Maybe in a couple of years...
 
Actually yesterday(Nov 7) was the offical launch day. Not next Friday. MS wasnt waiting till Comdex.

Its not a new concept, but it might be able to get a footing now. Digital Ink on WinXP Tablet Edt, it the best out there, better than any previously offered on any device. You also have software developers making tablet specific programs(Alias Wavefront, Adobe, and about 75 others). Before tablet support wasnt there, now it is.
 
Originally posted by: Horsepower
I'm leaning toward the Toshiba, because the tablet is removeable from the keyboard.
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No it's not. It just flips around, hiding the keyboard. Some of the others have this option too.

I'm thinking though that I agree with PM about the price. These are basically super-slim laptops which are always expensive, but I want to use it like a big PocketPC.
 
wouldn't mind having the compaq one on my coffee table vs. magazines...check the news, online magazines, weather, etc. while waiting in the lobby....not bad, not bad at all mon petite objet d'affection

i happen to like the fact that it uses the crusoe processor...sure, it's not a mainframe of a number cruncher, but surfing the web, word processing, viewing pictures and movies, etc....the thing is more than adequate...dissipates less heat and consumes less power while it's at it too.

as for them not being suitable for home use - why not?....they're can be used exactly like notebooks...

also, i prefer portable solutions with screens no larger than 10" (12 is tolerable) strictly for their portability...i find these 16" screen laptops and the like utterly retarded....but i suppose they suit certain market needs...i just don't think they're all that portable.
 
I was fooling around with a motion tablet PC. The Cnet review complained about its pen. You can buy different pens from Wacom, they work much better than the standard pen with the motion tablet PC.
 
Originally posted by: nortexoid

as for them not being suitable for home use - why not?....they're can be used exactly like notebooks...
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Better than that. I completely agree with you're idea of the coffee table book. I've always had problems sitting in a comfy chair or in bed trying to use a laptop. A tablet seems like it would work much better.
 
Well I tried the ViewSonic tablet at CompUSA. Definitely ugly, though the wide margins around the screen do provide an area for the thumb to grip while holding it. I barely tried the writing recognition, but it didn't work well for me. It also seemed to a bit clunky to get it to recognize/convert the writing to text. Instead of doing it on the fly or with a simple button, it required selecting a lasso, using the lasso to select the text to convert, go to a menu and select the Convert Text menu command. Then it presents you with a window of what it guesses the writing may match, none of which matched what I wrote (which was TabletPC). That certainly left me non-plussed.

My biggest gripe though is that it's still too heavy. A laptop sits on a table or a lap, so the only time the weight is an issue is when you lug it from place to place. With the tablet, you hold it in one hand, not supported on anything, potentially for extended times. Looking up the specs, it appears the ViewSonic is 3.4lbs. Now I'm not a weakling, but I really don't think I'd want to try to hold this up for half an hour or more.
 
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