Mobile PC (Tablet PC) - Thoughts and Ideas : Review

PC Mag writes about Top Tablet PCs

wnewquay — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:01:00 GMT

PC Mag does a quick roundup of several of the heavy hitters in the current Tablet PC landscape. The introduction is pretty positive.

Slate tablets and convertible tablets have the portability of a light laptop, with the added flexibility of a touch screen. Here are a few of our favorites.

by Tony Hoffman

Not all workers have the luxury of being able to sit down in order to use a laptop. If you have to input information or write notes while on your feet, a tablet PC may be the way to go. You have your choice between a slate tablet, which has no keyboard—you write or input data with a stylus or fingertip—and a convertible tablet, with an integrated keyboard and a screen that can be swiveled between laptop and tablet mode.

It is nice to see Vista get a positive acknowledgement here.

... All of the convertible tablets here run Windows Vista, which integrates tablet functions and provides particularly good handwriting recognition.

Read the whole article: Top Tablet PCs

HP Pavilion tx2000 - tx2051 Review

wnewquay — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:57:00 GMT

Steve S (Microsoft MVP - Tablet PCs) has recently posted his comprehensive review of the HP Pavilion tx2051 over in MobilePCWiki. Thanks Steve!

I have seen this machine in two retail stores in the last couple of weeks and have seen it advertised in a third. Decently decked out they are going for $1100-1200 Canadian Dollars. And you can walk right in and touch them at Best Buy, London Drugs and Staples. It's been years since I have seen a real Tablet PC in more than one or at the most two retailers locally. I hope to have one to demo for a couple of upcoming Tablet PC seminars, but from what I have seen so far, warts and all, there is a lot of value there for the money.

Steve writes...

Bottom line first: The tx2051 is a competent convertible tablet with many nice features including a pretty reasonable street price. Perhaps in line with this price, I find that this convertible delivers a slightly-above average tablet experience to the user but that there are a few design choices that seemingly could have been better integrated together. Note that I’m not saying that the tx2051 is poorly done…. I’m saying that it could have, and probably should have, been much better! The story here can’t be summarized in just a couple of sentences, so I invite you to read on…

Dell Latitude XP Tablet PC Review

wnewquay — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:22:00 GMT

Read this excellent - and personal Review of the Dell Latitude XP hosted at MobilePCWiki

I was particularly interested in this review because the author, Steve S, shares my great affection for Slate type Tablet PCs. It was really interesting to get his perspective on the (convertible) Dell Latitude XP. Steve went for the whole meal deal getting a solid state drive too. Am I jealous? Maybe just a little. I had a chance to spend a little time with one of these machines. Nice, very nice.

Steve S - frequent poster at TabletPCBuzz and GottaBeMobile - and a Microsoft MVP