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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Have you used a tablet recently? I have Windows Vista Business running on mine and I can just tap on windows, icons, buttons, etc to select them. No need to drag the mouse pointer or anything.
For something like the Gigabyte M912 tablet, that's probably the case since I think it uses XP Home instead of XP Tablet PC Edition. If you use an OS designed for tablet PCs, though, I think the experience would be pretty different.
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It's been a couple years. I haven't put much effort in to keeping up as I don't want one of the tablet laptops with keyboard etc. as I don't want the device as a laptop replacement. I want something smaller and lighter, for multimedia, reading and marking up pdfs etc. and will just use my laptop for computing, so I'm just keeping my eye out for some smaller tablet (screen only) devices to come out.
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Originally Posted by jj2me
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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Sounds like things have gotten better then. Something just needs to do away with the cursor all together like a PDA.
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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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Yeah that's probably the main thing that will have to be improved before I take the plunge. If I can't write as small, quickly and carefree in the margins of PDFs etc. as I can on print outs, then I'll just keep sticking with print outs.
So when some small tablet comes out, I'll just have to find a way to demo the options for marking up a PDF and see if it works for me.
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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.
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Yep, I'm generally not much of an early adopter. I'll wait for the tech to get there and fit my specific needs before taking the plunge. I'm fine with my laptop and printouts for now.