I purchased a Tablet PC last week and it just arrived this Friday, a Toshiba Protégé M200. Mine has a 1.8 GHz Pentium M, 1GB of RAM, a 60GB 7200 RPM hard drive, wireless, and built in Bluetooth support. So far I’ve found that it works reasonably well. The unit is small enough for me to carry around and weighs about, or maybe even less than 5lbs.. The only issue I found so far is with the screen resolution. The native resolution is 1400 x 1050 and that is too small for a 12in. screen, so I reduce it to 1024 x 768.
I’m still getting used to the handwriting recognition and find this aspect of using the Tablet PC to be a bit cumbersome. The handwriting recognition is dictionary based and works reasonably well when using standard English words. However, I do suggest using a bookmark file in your web browser and address book in your e-mail client in order to enter web addresses and e-mail addresses. Doing discrete character recognition with the pen is rather labor intensive.
The speech recognition seems to be a much improved
version
of what came with Office XP. I actually find that combining the speech
recognition and the stylus is most effective and would rather use this
than the
handwriting recognition in most cases. When using tablet mode, you can
enter
text using speech recognition and then correct it using the tablet pen.
That
is, in fact how I’m writing this post. However, I would point out that
kingfox would be rather frustrated since I haven’t found a way to create links
effectively using this method.

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