Your TabletPC Thoughts?

OK. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna buy a TabletPC. Confronted with the hideous thought of spending the next 6 hours reading documentation on all the Alpha and Beta software I got from MS this week, I cannot think of any other way.

I'm sure may of you out there are using one already. So which ones are you using, and what do you think about them? How are they working out for you? What do you hate about it? Have you found one that is powerful enough to develop on?

Please leave me some comments in my blog regarding these questions. I'd like to be as informed as I can so I can make the best decision possible.

6 Comments

  • I have heard some good things about the Toshiba Tablet. It still has a pretty crappy CPU, but does support a gig of ram, so you should be able to do some dev on it. It also has a keyboard built in.





    If/when I buy one, it will likely be the Toshiba.





    -Scott

  • I got the Toshiba (Portege), and do all of my development on it.

  • I'm still waiting for Dell to enter the market. I'd really like my next PC to be a tablet, but I want to UPGRADE from my Inspiron8100 1GHz P3 w/512mb RAM, so going to a centrino 900Mhz wouldn't really cut it.





    Still waiting...

  • Luke *really* needs to make SharpReader have a "Tablet PC" view, optimized for a portrait display!!!

  • Steve: "I'm still waiting for Dell to enter the market. I'd really like my next PC to be a tablet, but I want to UPGRADE from my Inspiron8100 1GHz P3 w/512mb RAM, so going to a centrino 900Mhz wouldn't really cut it."





    Trust me, a 900mhz centrino is an upgrade. The performance is about the equivalent of a 2ghz P4 machine. Actually, the benchmark on that machine was about the same as my new 2.4ghz Dell.





    Ironically, this misconception was caused by Intel's marketing campaigns that told us for years that "faster clock speed is better".





    Your clock speed just tells you how many cycles are executed per second. If you can execute more instructions per cycle, you can be "faster" even with a slower clock speed.





    Now, this means a chip can use less power and generate less heat with performance equivalent to a chip running at twice the clock speed... perfect for a laptop (which is what the Pentium M / Banias) is designed for.





    I'll blog on this soon and post some specific benchmarks on the laptop.

  • I have a new tabletpc compaq tcm1000, and it's wery sloooow with pen pointer and if working with video files....!!

    Fx, transfering movi file 1:30min *.avi to mp2 movi, it take about 18:00h time to do that...!

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