IBM ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC Reviewed

Posted by Hemos on Monday October 31, 2005 @05:26AM from the looking-under-the-hood dept.

JR writes "CoolTechZone.com has reviewed IBM's ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC that works as a standard notebook computer as well as a tablet PC. Generally with hybrid products, there are quite a few limitations attached, is that the case with X41? According to the article, "The notebook has a lot of drawbacks, lacks important features and tries to make up all that with its lightweight and a fingerprint reader that works like a charm. If you are looking for a small lightweight tablet and won't do much more than e-mail and note taking, along with basic office stuff, we would seriously recommend this one for it's battery life, the extreme lightweight design and the brilliant IBM support, but be ready to pay anywhere from $1800 to upwards of $2000 for a common purpose machine."

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Dear Lord, Handwriting? Why not Calligraphy? by gelfling · 2005-10-31 05:37 · Score: 4, Insightful

I will never use an electronic device that forces me to write on it in my own handwriting or any other PDAish grafitti like trash. Never. Maybe this is a niche machine for people who need to lug around electronic forms, blueprints, contracts and whatnot.

And please don't get me wrong I have a 12x12 Acecad digitizer tablet. I'm pretty familiar with using a stylus - - for things that it makes sense to use a stylus for. Like drawing.
Re:Daytimer vs. Tablet round 19 by bhtooefr · 2005-10-31 05:43 · Score: 4, Insightful

Get yourself a copy of OneNote, and let's try this again.

OneNote can search every notebook that you have in the thing pretty quickly.

Windows Journal isn't very useful, from what I've seen, compared to OneNote, which I use on my ancient ThinkPad X21 (which is most definitely NOT a Tablet PC, but it's a predecessor to the X41 Tablet).