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I'll be getting a laptop soon (the Asus G50V-A1) for school and gaming. I figured that having a tablet would help me a fair bit in class to take notes and whatnot (my typing is a bit slow). And so, I'm appealing to you guys to give me some advice on what tablets are good and what isn't.
My concerns:
- Weight. Cannot be too heavy. My laptop is bad enough as it is
- Good drivers and bundled software.
- Good quality to last 2 years in a high schooler's bag
- Price.
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Wow, taking notes on a laptop for high school? What happened to good 'ol pen and paper?! Man do I feel old now
. Must be a private school if you're not worried about your stuff getting stolen.
Anyway, I would recommend a Tablet PC as well over getting a separate tablet. You'll be drawing extra power from you G50, which only has about 2 hours of battery life unless you've got an outlet handy in each of your classes and you've got time to hook everything up.
If you're set on getting a tablet, Wacoms are a good choice. I have the Bamboo myself and it's worked pretty well. When I was on the market for one, Wacoms were pretty much the only ones I felt comfortable buying due to reputation and firsthand use of one that belonged to a classmate.
As far as software, all you really need for note taking is Windows Journal which comes with Vista and XP Tablet Edition. If you want software with more features, there's MS Office OneNote, but that won't come with tablets like the Bamboo. What comes with the bamboo asides from the drivers are programs for picture editing, etc.
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Thanks for the advice guys. It's actually a very interesting suggestion, having a tablet and a desktop. It's just that the tablet PC would be too small to do much other than being a tablet (LAN parties and such would be a challenge on 12.1") and I don't really need the power of a desktop.
But I will have Microsoft Office Home and Student Edition 2007 (with OneNote). Will the inbuilt handwriting recognition software work with it?
And yea, it's an international school so I guess its private
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Neat idea but urgh... a thinkpad. I cannot think of any uglier laptops.
Wacom tablets seem the only option. Would you guys reckon the bamboo (A6) is too small? Should I go for the Bamboo fun (A5) for taking notes?
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Looking for a Tablet
Discussion in 'Accessories' started by adyingwren, Aug 15, 2008.
