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Originally Posted by harryE123
Btw, there is no windows 7 slate (slate in the sense of the new breed of tablets) nor will there be one, since all the new tablets are mobile os devices. Of course there are the traditional tablets from microsoft that have been around dragging their feet for years.
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I use the term "slate" to refer to a tablet pc without keyboard. Can't use "tablet" anymore as it's been repurposed by the MBA's to mean dual touch web browser/media player with a small display ...
Basically, I'd like to get away from a convertable but still be able to plug a USB keyboard in when needed, which is quite rare now.
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That said although reportedly apple has the best handwriting recognition available in their labs (since they were the first to perfect it really with the newton) they seem to be averse so far to developing it for the ipad. Might have something to do with the way capacitance screens don't lend themselves that well to it, or the paradigm shift that they are trying to push through with touch. I am not aware of how good ms tec is there, but I ll take your word for it that it works. There are a lot of ipad apps currently developed of course for handwriting recognition.
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My daughter has an iPad, I'll wait and see what she thinks of the notetaking, and then wait and see what version 2 is like.
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I still don't see why you would need dual screens though, and with the horsepower on x86 that windows needs any windows + ereader combo will be a very dismal affair.
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I typically have multiple documents open concurrently on multiple wide screens, some for reference with one or more for editing. Compared to dynamic media such as video and flashy web pages most document display needs little cpu - my tablet is a fairly low power intel already. If I could afford it I'd have more than two readers/displays since switching between books and finding pages is a pain on eReaders.