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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
No. Not at all. Also, I think a tablet is better than either a netbook or a regular notebook. My reasons being, the text is too small to read with the full page view on most netbooks, and most students, while in class need to see the full page while in class, without zooming in and out to read.
In fact, a two page view that you can actually read is very helpful. Also, with either a notebook or a netbook, the tendency is to try and type your notes. There isn't all that much space on the typical law school classroom desk, and some profs get really pissed off if they see a bunch of students typing. (I know this first hand. Many profs will assume that, if you are typing on a notebook PC in class, you must be writing emails to your friends, or twittering ... certainly NOT paying attention to them).
A tablet PC will usually allow you to take handwritten notes in class). Very easy to have your PDF text in one window, and another window open in which you can hand write class notes. This part is true of both medical school and law school. And, profs in both types of school may have a small hissy fit about typing in class. They are perhaps a bit behind the times, but they have a point about what students may or may not be doing on their PCs when typing in class (another reason that if the student is surfing the web or something .... it can be a major distraction to the students sitting next to them). You might still be doing it on a tablet, but it will be much less obvious to the teacher.
Just my two cents, but I've been through the mill at both schools, and a lot of my friends are now profs at both types of schools, so I do have a little more insight on this than most proponents of ebook readers.
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Makes sense, a pc tablet seems good to me. I guess I was comparing the netbook/notebook to ereaders. And it would be better than ereader.
I am surprised to hear that you think netbooks/notebooks would be looked down at in schools, although a pc tablet would be better, depending on typing styles.
Gee when I was in medical school, I had notebook computer, video camera, and mp3 recordings going at same time. My teachers didn't think anything of it. I can't imagine teachers coming down on laptops/netbooks but if you say so, times have changed.
Today I would probably bring vado HD camcorder, a zoom h2 recorder, netbook to take notes I type pretty fast (and I like the battery life on netbooks compared to my notebooks.
p.s. your comments seem like they might be right maybe for high school. But college and above, netbooks, laptops and pc tablet seem like they could be interchangable. As to reading pdf's on netbooks/laptops I don't have trouble, but I can see advantage of PC tablet too. Which PC tablet do you recommend.