What Kind of Tablet PC to Buy?

What Kind of Tablet PC to Buy? 546

Posted by Cliff on Monday February 16, 2004 @09:20PM from the beyond-stone-and-chisels dept.

nic barajas asks: "I'm going to be attending college this fall, so I have been looking into a computer to use on campus. My preference has been to looking at the Tablet PC, although they are still in their proverbial infancy. I have been looking at a multitude of vendors, including Sager, Acer, and Toshiba. I'm looking for something that has a sizeable screen (at least 12"), decent storage (40GB+), and a long battery life. What are some of the better models on the market with these characteristics?"

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Also, (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday February 16, 2004 @09:25PM (#8300141)

Does anybody no which washer and dryer I should buy? I'm thinking about a Whirlpool or a Maytag. What do you guys think?

Thanks in advance! Get back soon because my wife is in the car waiting to go ...

Translation: (Score:1, Funny)

by Gothmolly ( 148874 ) writes: on Monday February 16, 2004 @09:29PM (#8300181)

I'm a rich kid, whose parents will buy me anything that I like, so should I whine for them to first buy a tablet PC, only to throw it out and have them buy me a nice purple iMac with matching iPod, or should I just complain that I'm failing my classes because, like, the PC ate my paper, and it was a really good paper?

Screen size, storage, and battery life are related (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday February 16, 2004 @09:34PM (#8300227)

Size of screen as q size of hard drive as r speed of hard drive as s battery life as t No constants are used, because I have a life (posting as an AC!) t ----------- = 1 q^2 + (r * s)

Re:wow, ask slashdot.... (Score:2, Funny)

by thepeete ( 189121 ) writes: on Monday February 16, 2004 @09:41PM (#8300288)

wow... you actually took time to reply...

Re:God... (Score:5, Funny)

by c1ay ( 703047 ) writes: on Monday February 16, 2004 @09:41PM (#8300289) Homepage

Here's [etch-a-sketch.com] the only reliable model that I know of...

wait for the Apple edition... (Score:4, Funny)

by The Lynxpro ( 657990 ) writes: <<lynxpro> <at> <gmail.com>> on Monday February 16, 2004 @09:43PM (#8300305)

Ducks for cover! Shortly thereafter, a thousand Voodoo2 PCI boards were thrown in his general direction... :)

Re:I got a solution... (Score:3, Funny)

by kfg ( 145172 ) writes: on Monday February 16, 2004 @09:45PM (#8300327)

And for those people I can highly recommend a deluxe executive leather clipboard, a Mont Blanc and a Jaguar XKR to keep them in.

A far better use of money than a tablet PC, not mention classier.

KFG

Re:Oh hell no. (Score:5, Funny)

by rootofevil ( 188401 ) writes: on Monday February 16, 2004 @09:47PM (#8300347) Homepage Journal

*ahem*
the kid in class that types notes into his PDA using a foldup keyboard has no use for condoms.

Accomplish the same thing without a tablet (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday February 16, 2004 @09:51PM (#8300382)
- Crush your typing fingers with a cinder block, to simulate the tiny keyboard and/or stylus
- Rub soap in your eyes to simulate the screen size
- Never go more than 10 feet from an electrical outlet for more than 30 minutes, to simulate battery life
- Periodically destroy everything you're doing and start over, to simulate crashes
- Start sending spam to all of your friends, to simulate using Outlook
Cheaper, and I might add, much less trouble than actually buying a tablet!
Re:Troll Question (Score:2, Funny)

by Westech ( 710854 ) writes: on Monday February 16, 2004 @09:53PM (#8300400) Journal

Laptop yes. PDA yes. Tablet? No redeming features...

Agreed. With a tablet PC, you get the size and weight of a laptop with the ease of use of a PDA.

Beer isn't free .... (Score:1, Funny)

by Tom_Yardley ( 587588 ) writes: on Monday February 16, 2004 @09:59PM (#8300456)

Beer isn't free, but, it is open source.

Re:LOL@Moderators (Score:3, Funny)

by shadowxtc ( 561058 ) writes: <shadow@beyourown.net> on Monday February 16, 2004 @10:08PM (#8300522) Homepage

Because people don't ask questions to hear religiously spun commentary.

Re:Me too (Score:0, Funny)

by Greg Lindahl ( 37568 ) writes: on Monday February 16, 2004 @10:12PM (#8300552) Homepage

You advertise a review on Slashdot, and you didn't say anything about LINUX?

Sheesh.

Re:Oh hell no. (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday February 16, 2004 @10:13PM (#8300558)

Any links for info about that condoms thing? I haven't heard of them before.

Re:God... (Score:5, Funny)

by gooru ( 592512 ) writes: on Monday February 16, 2004 @10:18PM (#8300588)

Just keep in mind there's no patch for the shaking bug.

Re:God... (Score:5, Funny)

by c1ay ( 703047 ) writes: on Monday February 16, 2004 @10:22PM (#8300638) Homepage

It's got better battery life than all the rest though...

Re:Oh hell no. (Score:5, Funny)

by Dwedit ( 232252 ) writes: on Monday February 16, 2004 @10:41PM (#8300811) Homepage

There's worse... [ti.com]

Re:God... (Score:3, Funny)

by pos ( 59949 ) writes: on Monday February 16, 2004 @11:22PM (#8301160)

That's not a bug. It's a feature. Really.

You might as well have asked... (Score:3, Funny)

by CAIMLAS ( 41445 ) writes: on Monday February 16, 2004 @11:28PM (#8301206)

"I'm going to be attending college this fall, so I have been looking into a mainframe to use about campus. My preference has been to looking at IBM's range of iron, although they are a bit out of my price range. I have been looking at a multitude of vendors. I'm looking for something that will fit within a small cargo van, has a decent support contract, and only needs one or two gas-powered generators to keep running. What are some of the better models on the market with these characteristics?"

Re:God...[not until 8.5 x 11 fits] (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday February 16, 2004 @11:34PM (#8301243)

You rape trees?!?

Re:Troll Question (Score:2, Funny)

by Moofie ( 22272 ) writes: <lee AT ringofsaturn DOT com> on Monday February 16, 2004 @11:54PM (#8301404) Homepage

They also bombed four or five years ago. And again nine or ten years ago.

I think MS is the only company who thinks this is a good idea, and they keep trying to convince others. They're still wrong.

From a college student (Score:2, Funny)

by Foreign16 ( 752026 ) writes: on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @12:18AM (#8301573) Homepage

Taking notes in class should be done on paper. The retained knowledge far surpasses typing for me and many of my peers. When I type, I sometimes can't tell you what I typed a minute ago.
As for a tablet as this article is stating, I see the electronic resources in class a bit rediculous. The people with this powerful computing solitaire playing machine gets used about 50/50 for notes and solitaire. It also distracts me to see someone on the 2nd row playing since January and still not win a game.

This is NOT /. Worthy! (Score:2, Funny)

by Pray_4_Mojo ( 13485 ) writes: <(redrobot) (at) (christopherwilson.net)> on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @01:00AM (#8301885) Homepage Journal

You read /. but don't know how to use Google to shop for a computer? And you WANT a tablet PC?

For shame, poor child, for shame....

Re:Laptop, pen&paper + a good camera (Score:3, Funny)

by GoofyBoy ( 44399 ) writes: on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @02:01AM (#8302199) Journal

>If you're taking a class like my Microprocessor Applications course where lots of code is presented that is useful in the labs, a good digital camera comes very handy.

Its even more useful if you take pictures of someone else's class notes.

Re:God... (Score:4, Funny)

by jest3r ( 458429 ) writes: on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @02:44AM (#8302361)

are you one of those "honest" Amazon reviewers ... ?

Re:God... (Score:5, Funny)

by eddie can read ( 631836 ) * writes: on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @07:30AM (#8303279)

Here's [etch-a-sketch.com] the only reliable model that I know of...

This was making the email rounds a few years ago:

Frequently Asked Questions for Etch-A-Sketch Technical Support

Q: My Etch-A-Sketch has all of these funny little lines allover the screen
A: Pick it up and shake it.

Q: How do I turn my Etch-A-Sketch off?
A: Pick it up and shake it.

Q: What's the shortcut for Undo?
A: Pick it up and shake it.

Q: How do I create a New Document window?
A: Pick it up and shake it.

Q: How do I set the background and foreground to the same color?
A: Pick it up and shake it.

Q: What is the proper procedure for rebooting my Etch-A-Sketch?
A: Pick it up and shake it.

Q: How do I delete a document on my Etch-A-Sketch?
A: Pick it up and shake it.

Q: How do I save my Etch-A-Sketch document?
A: Don't shake it.

Why stop there? (Score:2, Funny)

by karups2 ( 611529 ) writes: on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @07:33AM (#8303289)

Just set up some voice recognition software so can nap through the lecture without feeling guilty.
The real question is how to get the prof to train the voice recognition.
Option 1: Ask him outright.
Umm...no.
Option 2: Try to get him to do it in class without knowing it, "Sneakers"-style. "Umm, professor, since that memory chip's port passes data, I guess you might call it a...'passport', huh?" (The more I think about this, the more I'm certain this must be the explanation for some of the bizarre questions people have asked in the past. e.g. "Professor, what color is a transistor?")

Re:God... (Score:2, Funny)

by base_chakra ( 230686 ) writes: on Tuesday February 17, 2004 @08:59AM (#8303628)

it's top heavy and prone to tipping over (or worse *gulp*)

Accidental swallowing?

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Also, (Score:4, Funny)

Translation: (Score:1, Funny)

Screen size, storage, and battery life are related (Score:2, Funny)

Re:wow, ask slashdot.... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:God... (Score:5, Funny)

wait for the Apple edition... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:I got a solution... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Oh hell no. (Score:5, Funny)

Accomplish the same thing without a tablet (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Troll Question (Score:2, Funny)

Beer isn't free .... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:LOL@Moderators (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Me too (Score:0, Funny)

Re:Oh hell no. (Score:1, Funny)

Re:God... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:God... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Oh hell no. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:God... (Score:3, Funny)

You might as well have asked... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:God...[not until 8.5 x 11 fits] (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Troll Question (Score:2, Funny)

From a college student (Score:2, Funny)

This is NOT /. Worthy! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Laptop, pen&paper + a good camera (Score:3, Funny)

Re:God... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:God... (Score:5, Funny)

Why stop there? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:God... (Score:2, Funny)

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