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Originally Posted by PF4Mobile
thanks a lot
My vote is now leaning toward Asus ea 800
I still need to clarify how you can export the annotations and the handwriting, it seems that it is not quite standard.
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I can see you've posted in the M90 thread, too. It seems more people there are concerned with reading, not writing functions, which is making me lean more towards the Eee Note EA 800 over the M90.
The EE is superior to the Asus EEE Note (from reading extensively about the EEE Note on tabletPCreview) in terms of how it handles pdfs. But, the EE is no longer supported, is big and a tad bulky (10" version, which is the only one I'd recommend if pdfs are your main concern).
The Journal software is very similar to the linux program Xournal (built off it, we suspect, though not immediately compatible with it). This software allows you to import a pdf as a static background and write on top of it. On the EE, this is done through the reader (not the journal) but the idea is the same.
One limitation of the EE's pdf reading, though, is that annotations are only visible at the zoom level at which they were created. (They can be exported as pdfs, annotations intact, but you can't just zoom in, scribble something, then zoom out again and see it right on the screen.) I don't do a lot of zooming so it's never really bothered me. But the Xournal program does support this feature, so it's kind of annoying when I compare it to my N810 where I can zoom in to fill out forms then zoom back out and make sure it all worked before exporting to pdf. Note that this limitation appears to exist on the Asus EEE note, too.
Another limitation is that while you can now read pdfs in landscape with the newest software upgrade, you can't annotate in this position. On the 10" EE, that's not a huge problem. On the smaller PE, it's unfortunate because the screen is pretty small for viewing pdfs as is.
One advantage to the EE over the Eee Note is the export to pdf function. It works very smoothly. The Eee Note (which I don't own, but will probably get this summer) exports as a graphic file. Although, there is apparently Evernote compatibility built in. (Not a way to access Evernote, but a "send to Evernote, one-way feature.) This may be good enough for some. The crew at TabletPCReview are already working on software to better improve the exporting (link is mentioned earlier in this thread somewhere) and I assume the functionality will get better thanks to the community.
The EE is not likely to gain much functionality, but what it has is pretty good re: pdfs. The EE is a superior pdf manipulator right now, and does the other basic functions of the EEE Note better (web, email, twitter) thanks to the tablet side. The EE can also make use of existing android apps, and there are lots to choose from. If you were only to buy one machine, and you were basing it on function alone, the EE is the clear winner.
But, the lack of future development, the bulk/weight (now that I have a Macbook Air, the EE is heavier than my laptop, making the decision to carry it around tough every time) and the lack of support (in addition to still mostly prohibitive prices, especially for an end-of-life device) may be reasons to choose the Asus instead.
But the EE is clearly the better device for working with pdfs.