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Review of the 8 Hour Tablet: Electrovaya Scribbler

Posted by timothy on from the but-there's-an-all-weekend-tablet-already dept.

Lisa Gade, the chief geek over at MobileTechReview.com, reports that they've just published an in-depth review of the Electrovaya Scribbler SC2200. "It's a Windows XP Tablet Edition with lots of the features you'd expect on a high end slate machine like a 12.1" screen you can write on, a Dothan 1.4GHz processor and WiFi. But its real claim to fame is the huge capacity 10,200 mAh SuperPolymer battery which will get you through a work day without a charge."

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  1. What is your definition of a work day? by slagdogg · · Score: 5, Funny

    I haven't had an 8 hour work day since I was a child laborer. Of course, the only people I see using Tablet PCs typically do about 20 minutes of work per day anyways, so this is overkill for them. Good thing Windows Solitaire isn't a big battery hog.

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  2. Thats nothing... by DeckardJK · · Score: 5, Funny

    How does it compare to this?

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000 3099MM//ref=pm_dp_ln_e_1/104-3745312-9136713?v=gla nce&s=electronics&me=standard

  3. I agree by InfiniteWisdom · · Score: 5, Funny

    I totally agree with you... after all this is clearly targetted at real-time 3D modelling (what else would you use a portable battery-operated device for?), so we do need something with quad 3.7GHz Xeons.

  4. Re:Tablet PC's? by SuperRob · · Score: 5, Informative

    As a college student, I'll tell you that the Tablet PC coupled with Microsoft's OneNote software is a killer app for the Tablet PC. I was able to type notes, draw pictures, record a lecture as an audio clip (annotated with written notes), and grab a couple of web screenshots into a note file for my class, then catalogue and index the notes and make it all searchable. That is incredibly powerful.

    That said, the recognition software is NOT crappy, it's remarkably accurate considering my terrible handwriting, and any mistakes are also easy to fix. This is assuming you have Windows XP SP2, which has updated TIP/Recognition software in it. The initial software wasn't nearly as robust.

  5. Re:Tablet PC's? by Webtommy88 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wish i had mod points to mod you up.

    This is especially useful because all my notes come in PDF format so it works incredibly well by opening the pdf in acrobat and editing it straight.

    Also, being a CS/Math major, writting complex equations is alot easier then on a keyboard.