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Writes 'CoolTechZone.com 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.' I have gentoo running on my hp tc4200 just fine. Pen, wifi, and everything working well. Only problem is that there aren't many 'pen enabled' programs for linux. So when note taking I am in Windows using GoBinder. About meetings: the collaborative part of tablets is awesome.
Often in group meetings I will hook my tablet up to the projector and take notes so everyone can see what we are talking about. It becomes a kind of white board that you can save and email out the results to everyone. I'm typing this on my tc4200 right now. And I've gotta say that I've fallen in love with this machine. I use it both at work and at school (graduate degree. And it serves both purposes extremely well.
I personally selected the tc4200 over the x41 because it is more of a desktop replacement+tablet than the x41 is. The 2Ghz PentiumM + 1GB of ram and a 7200 RPM hardrive upgrade make the tc4200 just as fast as most desktops. The only drawback being that you only have a 1024x768 screen, but a docki. Give gobinder.com a try.
It has even better organization capabilities than One Note (for one thing it has integrated tasks and calendar.) and has great inking capabilities (including lasso for selection and moving. Use 'right click' for instant lasso). Honestly I think my tablet would be worthless without it.
I agree about the Portege. I actually would have gotten one myself, but as my job was buying it for me I didn't have much choice (IBM or HP). As it is though, I love the compactness of the HP, a. 'Before giving our final verdict on it, however, let's consider one more thing.
Who is this hybrid product designed for? Is it for power users like you and me? Anyone who buys this notebook probably has a few hundred people working under him/her to do his/her presentations, work on excel and so on.
The tablet is then around for sheer novelty and flaunt value. It's nice to have a tablet these days and that's what Lenovo is playing at. Those who own a tablet will normally be attending long meetings, taking quick notes and wouldn't want to generally carry around heavy models, but to the majority of us, tablet PCs don't make sense, financially or pragmatically.' I used a tablet PC for several years while at Microsoft, partly because I wanted to understand what or if there was an application and partly because it was the politically-correct thing to do. I was not impressed.
It really has nothing to do with the form-factor, although performance is a key factor. It has more to do with the software, specifically Windows for Tablet, and the whole human interaction thing. I took notes on it for about 9 months, and then finally had to stop when I realized I couldn't find anything for later review. The files were all there, my notes were in them, but to open and close hundreds of files looking for the meeting where that guy said that thing about that stuff? There was no way I could be more efficient than the notebook and pen. True, you can't search your notebook electronically, but you can't search your written notes either.
Convert handwriting to text? Forget about it, the error correction you have to go through eliminates ANY potential savings. My old-fashion father, now an 80 year-old CPA, used to laugh when I would bring home the latest PDA/calendar/phone thingy. He would smile, take out his daytimer and set it on the table. We would race to see who could look up a personal schedule for a specific date. I never won the race. I was never even close.
I still cannot win that race, and I still cannot even come close. The Tablet does have some unique applications, such as the Doctor doing their rounds and updating charts on the fly. Inventory perhaps. There are others. But as a general purpose note-taking computing platform, forget about it. It the latest technology cannot outperform the oldest known writing standard in the world, pen and paper, and can't make general office functions any better, it is just technology looking for a solution.
I have a tablet that I bought when they couldn't sell them (toshiba 3500) and the price went through the floor. It was great to use in meetings to wind other people up - the gee-wow factor, but even as a medic, I didn't find them useful in a workplace context. It's a nice idea, but there is a reason that Apple hasn't done tablets (yet). It has turned out to be an excellent general notebook though. OneNote does sound good, but the only real solution to portable computing input is good voice recognition, and I. I took notes on it for about 9 months, and then finally had to stop when I realized I couldn't find anything for later review. The files were all there, my notes were in them, but to open and close hundreds of files looking for the meeting where that guy said that thing about that stuff?
There was no way I could be more efficient than the notebook and pen. True, you can't search your notebook electronically, but you can't search your written notes either. Convert handwriting to text? Forget about. Just gotta add, Windows Journal can also search and match handwriting written on any angle. It's an impressive first demonstration for people.
For those who are looking for an example of how powerful tablets are, check out xthink.com. It allows you to 'write' mathematical equations and formulas and have the computer solve them for you. You can basically write: 2 + 2 followed by a 'tick' and have it insert ' = 4' in the right location. Ofcourse it supports more advanced functions (sin, sqrt, simultaneous equation solving etc) and includes graphing as well.
It even lets you search your handwriting (ha). There's also cornell.edu which allows you to basically draw a 3D model in 2D on the tablet screen and have it automatically turn the 2D sketch into a 3D model (fully rotatable etc). It is important to separate marketeting from actual usage. The ability to search a handwritten note is great, until you have several hundred files to search. What exactly was the problem you were having with 'several hundred files to search'?
Perhaps you missed the part where Journal allows you to search files/notes in any folder (recursively)? On the control to the right of the search text box field so I'm not sure how you could have missed it.
One of the great things about Windows Journal is that it can e. My old-fashion father, now an 80 year-old CPA, used to laugh when I would bring home the latest PDA/calendar/phone thingy. He would smile, take out his daytimer and set it on the table. We would race to see who could look up a personal schedule for a specific date.
I never won the race. I was never even close.
I still cannot win that race, and I still cannot even come close. Now, take his day-timer, and your PDA (or whatever), and throw them away. Then do the race again. Assuming you're taking ad. I would just like to throw one more hat in the 'well then you were using it incorrectly' ring. As others have mentioned OneNote and GoBinder boths support searching. And both do a great job at it.
In Gobinder I can even have equations written in my math class with small blurbs written all around the equations describing the different pieces. And if I do a search on the text in one of those slanty little blurbs it still finds it. I have no idea how it does it, but it's awesome. To be honest though, I h. You hit the nail on the head when you said that the biggest problem the Tablet PC has is software. But this brings up an interesting problem.
Because there isn't a great deal of software available, sales of the platform have been lackluster. Which means it's incredibly difficult to get any investment to create software for the platform.
Rinse, lather, repeat. As our final project in our undergrad computer engineering program, my group developed a mathematical handwriting recognition app for the tablet pc. I think you'll find the 'excepts' are usually the cases that will stop others from taking linux seriously as a replacement for windows, because for them, that 'exception' is the whole reason they use windows in the first place Those that conciously choose to use Windows because they have researched those 'exceptions' and found them the driving factor in their decision, are, well, the exception. The vast majority use it because they got it for 'free' on their computer when they bought it, and because they.
It's not IBM anymore, guys, but rather Lenovo. Even for ThinkPads originally purchased from IBM, the Package Manager software has been steadily replacing all the IBM-branded ThinkVantage software with Lenovo-branded software. (So far, it all works the same, but they're making it very clear that it's a Lenovo show now.) Customer support has been turned over to Lenovo as well. (I can say from recent experience that it's still quite good.) The article got this right, but I thought I'd post the FYI here as well. Or current IBM employees.
As far as I've seen there are two locations in Atlanta for desktop and mobility support of Lenovo and IBM in the US. Sterling Point has mostly contractors supervised by IBMers, and Riveredge is mostly IBM. The SSR's who go onsite when needed are mostly IBM as well. Granted that's not my area, but that's what I've picked up. I, of course, could be horribly wrong, but as far as I know Lenovo purchased the name and use of IBM's support structure. You still dial 1-800-IBM-SERV, for e.
Tell me about it (T42 owner here). At some point in October, Package Manager sent me updated Lenovo WLAN drivers.and. updated Access Connections (IBM's network profile software I can't live without) which prompty messed each other up. Not only that but the updated Lenovo software ripped out utilities that other (older, IBM-) software was looking for giving me dozens of 'Can't find such-and-such.exe' errors. And this was with every single package updated straight from the ThinkPad site; in the end I had.
Another one worth looking at is the R series by Toshiba; it's roughly 6lbs but sports a 14.1' screen. You can see one in person at Best Buy (but iif you buy one I highly suggest going elsewhere). Also for either machine, if you qualify for academic prices definitely go through a local college. My school orders a number of preconfigured models in bulk and passes some savings to the customer (it's cheaper to buy from my campus bookstore than from the IBM higher education page directly). On a side note, is there any good tablet linux distros yet? 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. My BioPhysics major son uses full-size LE1600 tablet with an 8-hr battery for hand-taking notes in Chemistry, Calculus, Physics, and Biology.
He's scanned in the presently needed chapters from his heavier books that he bought for each class and they live in his computer. The keyboard stays in his room and during the day he carries it as a tablet. It'd be damn near impossible.
Apple really needs to come out with something like this. I have a number of MAC shop clients and the artists have been seriously considering moving to XP for the Tablet functionality. The reason is that the Tablet can sense pressure, and a brush stroke is adjusted accordingly on the screen. The Waacom stuff can do drawing, but isn't pressure sensitive to this degree.
There is about a 5k piece of equipment you can buy to do this with OSX, but its just not the same. Vista is making some big strides on the Tablet end and is upping the sensitivity, so combined with the more accurate graphic color rendering, windows may be able to woo some artists away. Adobe and Quark products work well on both platforms.
The only real thing Windows will be lacking is a decent font management tool. This ThinkPad os exactly the kind of thing that I think could hurt apple at the end of the day. It may be easier for apple to get into this market now that they are moving to intel chips, since the hardware is already running on the x386 platform.
I couldn't agree more. Apple certainly has the technology.
The Newton (yeah, sorry, I had to bring it up) was an amazing gadget in its day. With the advances in processing power, memory capacity, etc.
Apple could certainly succeed in creating a new class of tablet somewhere between a PDA and a small laptop with a flip-screen. Throw in very good voice recognition, GSM/GPRS (are you favorite flavor of data)and immediate handwriting to typed-text conversion with learning capability and you'd have a winner. Actually, a Wacom Cintiq supports a wider range of pressure input, and also supports Intus-specific features like tilt. If one can forego portability / mobility, it is a compelling choice, which can pay off in improved productivity for high-end usage.
It is really unfortunate the Apple hasn't done a tablet since the Newton - using Rosetta w/ a Wacom is nice, but a pen-enabled Finder and pen tablet running Mac OS X could be a really nice tool. William (who gave up on waiting for Apple to make a tablet and got.
The reason is that the Tablet can sense pressure, and a brush stroke is adjusted accordingly on the screen. The Waacom stuff can do drawing, but isn't pressure sensitive to this degree. While Wacom has competition, it's still the leader performance wise; it's tablets have (depending on model) 512 to 2048 pressure levels.
Unless you're trying to emulate a real brush on canvas, this is as good as it gets. Yes, the driver is available on both Mac OS X and Windows, so all your bantering about Vista is c. I would say that your statement is as much a mischaracterization as any other I've heard. IBM did not design the product. Lenovo did not design the product.
They are companies. People designed the product. Those people were IBM employees while the product was being designed and those same people are Lenovo employees now that it's being shipped and supported. It's basically this sentence that seems like non-sense to me: 'Lenovo was simply in charge when it made it to market.'
What does that mean to you? I have been using the x41 tablet and several other tablet brands for a couple of months and my conclusion is: 'For mainstream use, Not Worth the Effort' Everything about them is slower than keying. Interacting with websites or other apps which expect keyboard entry is painfully tedious. Annotation of existing digital docs require another step, another app and is of limited use to send to others unless they are so configured. (MS Journal, etc) And as previous slashdotter noted: finding anything is proble. Until about two months ago. Then I found a problem.
But it was better solved by slates than convertibles. Namely, my problem was the medical industry (non-hospital).
Doctors want to be able to walk around with their computer and review the patient's information before going into the room with the patient. Then they just dock it when it's time to work with the patient, and keying is faster. In other words, the problem solved is easy read-only portability. The input still sucks, but plenty o.
Interacting with websites or other apps which expect keyboard entry is painfully tedious. Annotation of existing digital docs require another step, another app and is of limited use to send to others unless they are so configured. (MS Journal, etc) I have all my common URLs contextually bound to the URL box so i can access my websites pretty quickly by simply writing the URL (slashdot.org etc) and sine the dictionary of URLs is small, accuracy is almost 100%. And as previous slashdotter noted: finding anythin. In fact, I'm typing this comment on it.
It is a bit sluggish, but I suspect that's because my add-in memory is still on order. The battery life (as with all X series ThinkPads) is unbeatable. But the killer app to me is not the note-taking. There are a few nice applications the tablet can be used for that don't work as well on a regular laptop (and I won't buy a non-ThinkPad until someone else figures out how to put in a sane keyboard layout).
Driving directions. Bluetooth GPS + Streets and Trips 2003 = turn-by-turn directions and a nice huge map. Photo editing.
Instead of having a separate digitizer tablet, this one is built-in. Using the mouse for this kind of stuff really sucks, especially if you have RSI.
Aircraft use (pilot). There are a pile of programs to help aviators figure out where they're going, and they're much easier to see on a Tablet than on a laptop. In a vacuum or electrical failure, this can be a real lifesaver (by acting as a DG or VOR/GS). Aircraft use (passenger). You can read PDFs in tablet mode, even when the seat in front of you is reclined. You can even annotate them with the pen.
So sure, its a bit sluggish (but another 512MB RAM will help that quite a bit), and the resolution sucks (1024x768? Are we in the 90s?), but I think I'm sticking with the tablet for the near future as my portable. My power use takes place on a Pentium D desktop with 4GB RAM and a 24' LCD, so there's little need for me to have a beefy desktop-replacement laptop. And the optical drive problem is solved with an external DVD burner that hooks up to both the laptop and the desktop. Good to hear that your experience is that extra memory fixes the speed problem. I suspected as much, since my desktop runs 2 VMs, and when they ran with 512MB each, it was dog slow, but at 1 GB each, things work pretty well.
What are you running in Virtual PC? If its another Windows setup, how much memory do you give it?
I run W2k3 in VPC for testing web apps, using just the default setting (256mb). I have VS.NET 2003 install on that machine as well, but I don't recommend VS at 1024x768 for anything beyo. 'When in tablet mode, the screen for some reason is not a touch screen, but works if we point the stylus at it.' Yeah, that's kind of the point.
The idea is that you rest your wrist on the screen and write like you would on a piece of paper. If it was touch sensitive, that would be a little messy (virtual ink everywhere). I guess this is Microsoft's problem: No one knows enough about TabletPCs to consider the benefits. Even the 'reviews' seem to miss the point on some features.
My Motion M1200 is almost 3 years old now and I still love it. Good lord, I thought this thing was supposed to be lightweight - it's 3.5 pounds!! I was looking for an ultra-lightweight a year ago, and when I saw this review, I thought 'Damn. That's what I wanted - it's even got the touchstick (nipple, whatever)'. Then I go check the website. I was looking at a Panasonic.Y4?
I think that was it. Anyway, DVD writer (!), 1.1 Ghz machine, half a gig of memory, and only 2.5 lbs. Granted, it cost $3400+, and was only available via impor.and all the neato features actually WORK. I've been working on these for several months now, we emperorlinux.com this a month ago, and we have emperorlinux.com working: The integrated Biometric Fingerprint scanner works in Linux, so you can train your fingerprints, and use them to login (via PAM/GDM).
The pen works in Xorg, so you can input to screen as a mouse pointer or stylus. You can hand-write commands on-screen (converts handwriting to ascii text in the focus area (using rosetta)). It includes a recognition suite (trained conversion of handwritten text to ascii text (using dklevine.com)).
And the digitizer is pressure sensitivity in Gimp. Now, that said, all of the handwriting features will require some training, but with carefull training, are very nearly as good as the 'Windows Journal' at this time.
The screen can be rotated to portrait orientation via rotate button (not dynamic, no xrandr on i915 yet, so 2 Xconfigs). It has special 'BlueKeys' support when folded into tablet configuration: scroll Up, scroll Down, Enter, and Toolbox keys. The Toolbox Key (plugin to ' emperorlinux.com' tools to access LCD brightness up/down, volume up/down, backlight, wifi kill, etc). I just bought a tablet pc this morning - Fujitsu T4000D. I'll now bore you with summary and details, skip down to the end for my actual point. I found myself burning enough time on the pc at home, and getting pains from it, that I needed a different ergonomic solution.
I've already got an ergonomic mouse, but it's not enough. I know for a fact it's just related to my posture/position, I have everything in place to fix it, but my habits destroy all attempts to rectify the situation. What am I doing when I.
All IBM ThinkPads contain boobytrapped self destructing Trusted Computing chips inside. Chips designed to allow your computer to be secured AGAINST YOU. You are forbidden to know your master keys (PrivEK and RSK and certain kinds of lower keys) and denied the ability to read or alter your 'secured' files except under control of the Trust chip (sealed storage), and the chip is designed to spy on and to be able to send a secure spy report (Remote Attestation) to other people over the internet revealing exactl. You backup all fingers in the reader in case you burn one, or cut it and the reader doesnt accept your finger anymore. I've played with the T43 the fp reader is pretty good but frankly useless too because where i saw it used you could resort to typing a password in case something happened to all five of your fingers.
So security wise it's as useful as the most vulnerable part of the process, and most people might want to have a backup password in case something happens so it's as safe as the password is. It's a Pentium M 1.5Ghz. Not comparable to a P4 1.5Ghz at all, so saying '1.5Ghz is pretty slow' is misleading.
I thought people here on Slashdot knew this stuff. 512MB of RAM is more than enough for everything I've ever done except playing Battlefield 2.
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It's reasonably speedy for the application (ultra lightweight laptop). I have the X41 (non-tablet version) and the processor is fine for heavy Excel work, light/occasional programming/stats work and the like. The harddrive is slow, and startup is a bit. I just picked up a shopfujitsu.com about a month ago and I don't think I'll ever be able to use a 'normal' laptop again. It's a tad heavier than the X41 but it has an on-board CDRW in a modular bay that I can shove a secondary battery in when I know I'll be out for a while. The screen is slightly hard to read on a bright day outside, but a dream otherwise.
The fingerprint reader was fun for a few weeks but the novelty ran off pretty quick. As far as a solution looking for a problem, I agreed up until I got min.