I would really like to get a tablet PC, but I am not sure how well they actually work. They run amazingly cheap on E-Bay, which makes me think they are not such hot shit.

Has anyone had any experience?

6/22/2008 6:47:23 PM

the physical therapists in my office use motion computing for everything, and they work pretty well. the wifi can be a little goofy sometimes, but overall they're not bad. they respond to the stylus exceptionally well

6/22/2008 6:53:28 PM

I loved mine I had in college. I sold it when I got out and wish when my work had offered to buy me a computer I had gotten another one. Just make sure you have a copy of OneNote. It's great for searching through notes because it does a great job of reading your notes as text even if its sloppy as hell so you can just hit find, type in a word or two that you're looking for and it'll go through everything and find it. Great for studying.

I've had two. A 12.1" and a 14". The 12" one was just too small for me and I sold it to my roommate--he loved it. I strongly preferred the 14" one I had. It's really a matter of personal choice of whether you want the extra room or the extra weight (which to me was next to nothing)

6/22/2008 7:26:02 PM

get a lenovo x60t or x61t

lightweight powerful convertible tablet

6/22/2008 7:42:44 PM

that's probably what i'll get next. i think i'll be fine with the smaller screen now.. i use to write huge and needed the screen space

6/22/2008 7:44:08 PM

yeah

i have a x41t and size is perfect for taking it everywhere

6/22/2008 7:46:32 PM

The hospital put some in the ICUs when I was rotating there as a pilot project. I think they were these:

http://www.motioncomputing.com/products/tablet_pc_c5.asp

Worked fine for general stuff like browsing the web, but I hated using the health system software with it. The laptops-on-carts we had been using were much, much quicker for actual work (and you didn't have to hold them for hours).

Can't personally comment on using them as notepads, although I've known people who loved them for that purpose.

6/22/2008 8:06:44 PM

I've had good experiences with them. My two last work laptops have been a Lenovo X41t and then a Gateway M-285E, both convertible tablets (the ones that look like a standard laptop but the screen rotates for use in tablet mode. I've also used a motion computing slate tablet for a while while setting it up for someone at work. The motion tablet was nice because it was really thin and worked quite well, but there were times when I hated not having a hardware keyboard. The convertibles are the best in my opinion--look at the Lenovo Thinkpad X61t, or the Dell Latitude XT (though the Latitude XT is pricey, starts at $2100 and easy to get up close to $3k).

6/23/2008 9:33:32 AM