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