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What Kind of Tablet PC to Buy?
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?"
Does anybody no which washer and dryer I should buy? I'm thinking about a Whirlpool or a Maytag. What do you guys think?
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Thanks in advance! Get back soon because my wife is in the car waiting to go
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?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
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)
wow... you actually took time to reply...
My Karma is so low that even my own postings are beyond my current threshold
Ducks for cover! Shortly thereafter, a thousand Voodoo2 PCI boards were thrown in his general direction...
"Right now, somewhere in this world, Scott Baio is plowing a woman he doesn't love," - Peter Griffin, *Family Guy*
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
*ahem*
the kid in class that types notes into his PDA using a foldup keyboard has no use for condoms.
turn up the jukebox and tell me a lie
Cheaper, and I might add, much less trouble than actually buying a tablet!
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, but, it is open source.
Because people don't ask questions to hear religiously spun commentary.
You advertise a review on Slashdot, and you didn't say anything about LINUX?
Sheesh.
Any links for info about that condoms thing? I haven't heard of them before.
Just keep in mind there's no patch for the shaking bug.
It's got better battery life than all the rest though...
There's worse...
That's not a bug. It's a feature. Really.
The truth is more important than the facts.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
"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?"
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
You rape trees?!?
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.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
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.
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....
>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.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
are you one of those "honest" Amazon reviewers ... ?
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.
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?")
it's top heavy and prone to tipping over (or worse *gulp*)
Accidental swallowing?