Tablet PCs

[Aaron Knight]

A friend recently bought one of the Toshiba models (I don't remember off-hand which model), and I was pretty impressed with it. Even with my rather pathetically bad handwriting, OneNote (the MS recognition software) was pretty good at figuring out what I had written on it. I'd buy one in a heartbeat, if I had 2 grand or so kicking around

[Nate Smith]

I actually had the opportunity to use one of these Tablet PCs at the Kettering Kickoff last year(Sorry, I don't remember exactly what model)...I quickly fell in love with it and ended up using it to post the alliances in real time to the scoring system courtesy of the built-in WiFi and my router sitting upstairs at the control table. I didn't work too much with the writing recognition, but if it's anything like that recognition on my Pocket PC, it shouldn't be too bad...

[Marc P.]

I have an older tablet, a Fujitsu Stylistic 3400. It's a P3, 400mhz, upgraded the hard drive to 20 gig, running XP Pro. It works pretty well, I'm using it primarily as an MP3 player for my car. The passive touch screen works wonders when driving! It's nice to just tap the "next" button in Winamp, or browse through the playlist without looking at a tiny MP3 player display. Heck, the thing even saved Tom's party after Battlecry

Overall they're cool things, although the handwriting recognition isn't quite perfect (not sure how it is in XP Tablet Edition, haven't had the chance to install it yet). In any case, definitely worth it if you jot down a lot of quick notes, or like the idea of carrying around a laptop like a book. Much easier to work and move at the same time.