I wouldn't write a paper using handwriting on my tablet, but I do use the handwriting for marking up documents, Taking notes in the Journal Writer, Using OneNote etc. Try that with a laptop. The tablets do have other differences besides just the input method.
And one nice thing is that the point of writing on the screen isn't to always convert your handwriting into text, but to have it stay as "ink" in whatever document you are editing.
I also had a Toshiba, but I like the idea of a slate device better (tablet without a permanently attached keyboard) better than the Toshiba approach. Motion Computing has a good slate as well...we are buying both HP and Motion devices here.
The more I use my TC1100 the less I use anything else. It drives me nuts when I hear them compared to a PDA. The only similarities to a PDA would be the fact that you can write on the screen. I can do everything on it that I can do on my laptop, plus more. And with XPsp2 comes a lot better handwriting recognition, and a lot better tabletpc OS overall.
It does get a bit hot, but not hot enough that I don't mind carying it around all day. I also doubled the ram to 1gig to make it run a bit smoother, but after that it has been a slick machine.
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I wouldn't write a paper using handwriting on my tablet, but I do use the handwriting for marking up documents, Taking notes in the Journal Writer, Using OneNote etc. Try that with a laptop. The tablets do have other differences besides just the input method.
And one nice thing is that the point of writing on the screen isn't to always convert your handwriting into text, but to have it stay as "ink" in whatever document you are editing.
I also had a Toshiba, but I like the idea of a slate device better (tablet without a permanently attached keyboard) better than the Toshiba approach. Motion Computing has a good slate as well...we are buying both HP and Motion devices here.
The more I use my TC1100 the less I use anything else. It drives me nuts when I hear them compared to a PDA. The only similarities to a PDA would be the fact that you can write on the screen. I can do everything on it that I can do on my laptop, plus more. And with XPsp2 comes a lot better handwriting recognition, and a lot better tabletpc OS overall.
It does get a bit hot, but not hot enough that I don't mind carying it around all day. I also doubled the ram to 1gig to make it run a bit smoother, but after that it has been a slick machine.