Dan
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http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/tabletpc/
Well it's not exactly new, I got it about at the start of the school year. But it is very cool. It can function just like a really small laptop. Mine is the 1.0 ghz centrino m. However you can also flip the screen around and fold it flat or just take the screen right off of the keyboard and write directly on the glass. Faster than my home desktop at the momment. I still don't understand why tablet pcs haven't caught on. The one downside is that if I use my computer in public as a slate I will enevitably have someone come over and say "hey that's cool, how's it work, how much was it, how much memory does it have, how fast is it?" This takes time out of whatever I'm doing to go through and demo the handwriting and how I can put my hand on it without it being picked up. (It's electromagnetic not pressure sensitive) It also has no cd drive but that's not much problem with things like steam and the abundance of cd images. It can even play HL2 at very decent framerates allbeit in dx7 due to the 32mb Gforce 4 it still looks great though.
The one really great thing about the HP tablet is that because it's marketed towards doctors and such they give very high quality customer service for this product. A friend of mine was fooling around and scratched the screen somehow, which is usually very tough, supposedly 10x stonger than regular glass. Anyways, under the original waranty that came with it, I called up HP on Saturday to get it fixed. They say they'll send me a box on the first work day. Monday afternoon I get a foam padded shipping box with a return paper included and I send it off right away. It goes to the other side of the country and comes back Wednesday afternoon, less than 48 hours later. They replaced the glass and the screen because I had mentioned that there were several dead pixels. No charge at all.
If you're interested at all in tablets go to www.tabletpcbuzz.comm for bucketloads of info.
Well it's not exactly new, I got it about at the start of the school year. But it is very cool. It can function just like a really small laptop. Mine is the 1.0 ghz centrino m. However you can also flip the screen around and fold it flat or just take the screen right off of the keyboard and write directly on the glass. Faster than my home desktop at the momment. I still don't understand why tablet pcs haven't caught on. The one downside is that if I use my computer in public as a slate I will enevitably have someone come over and say "hey that's cool, how's it work, how much was it, how much memory does it have, how fast is it?" This takes time out of whatever I'm doing to go through and demo the handwriting and how I can put my hand on it without it being picked up. (It's electromagnetic not pressure sensitive) It also has no cd drive but that's not much problem with things like steam and the abundance of cd images. It can even play HL2 at very decent framerates allbeit in dx7 due to the 32mb Gforce 4 it still looks great though.
The one really great thing about the HP tablet is that because it's marketed towards doctors and such they give very high quality customer service for this product. A friend of mine was fooling around and scratched the screen somehow, which is usually very tough, supposedly 10x stonger than regular glass. Anyways, under the original waranty that came with it, I called up HP on Saturday to get it fixed. They say they'll send me a box on the first work day. Monday afternoon I get a foam padded shipping box with a return paper included and I send it off right away. It goes to the other side of the country and comes back Wednesday afternoon, less than 48 hours later. They replaced the glass and the screen because I had mentioned that there were several dead pixels. No charge at all.
If you're interested at all in tablets go to www.tabletpcbuzz.comm for bucketloads of info.
