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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
What I'm saying is for the couple of tablet PCs I've used, if you wanted to click on a program or something you couldn't just tap it. You had to move the cursor around with the stylus like you would a mouse and get it over top the icon etc.
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This would be the hover, where the cursor appears when your pen gets within about 1/2" of the active digitizer screen. A "feature" that shouldn't affect simply tapping the program (except in Windows you have to double-tap to open as a default). The hover can also be annoying when tapping to open, especially if you haven't calibrated the digitizer just so, because your eyes follow the hover and try to land it centered on the icon. With PDAs, which also need to be calibrated, you don't see the cursor so you just blissfully tap.
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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
And the writing has been very non-intuitive on the few I've seen, and I struggle to write small and legibly with my terrible penmanship. I really need something where the writing feels just like writing on paper and can be done as small and neatly as quickly and carefree. If I can't easily scribble notes in the margins of PDFs etc., such a device loses a lot of appeal for me. Guess what I'm saying is that the touch screen sensitivity and precision on the one's I've tried out wasn't good enough for me.
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Vista has improved handwriting recognition. RitePen adds a "write anywhere" capability. But both prefer larger writing to smaller writing. The TIP is confined to writing in one space, hardly quickly and carefree. Also hardly carefree on handwriting recognition is having to look to see if it did the correct recognition, and correcting if not.
For non-recognition freehand scribbling, it depends on the app whether it would appeal to you. PDF Annotator is nice for me, maybe not nice for you. There are not a lot of apps that allow scribbling freehand notes--they mostly prefer ASCII text entry.
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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
But maybe the tech has gotten better since I last played with one a couple years back, and then it's just a matter of having a small 10" (or maybe 8.5" x11") vs the larger ones as I want something small and lite to carry around.
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A little better, but it sounds like you have a better plan for you, as the elusive 10" super-thin and light all-day-battery Tablet PC hasn't been invented yet. I have a 12.1" HP 2710p, great to write on, light in weight, and you can add the slice battery for all-day use. But despite being under 4 lbs. and having the advantage of a keyboard for text and data entry, it always feels bulky and heavy to hold and to move around (and definitely to transport) when compared to my little Sony 505.