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Originally Posted by krighton
Fits my needs closer than anything i've found, bit largish but not huge.
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Mine too.
I needed something for general reading, which means books, news sites, PDFs, magazines, on-line reference, forums, etc. Displaying material with the proper layout, formatting and colour is a must have for me. I also wanted it to be able to handle writing, and all the usual computer stuff.
For those looking for reasons to buy it's big enough to do a good job of displaying whatever you throw at it, and it's obviously extremely versatile with regard to the software you can instal on it (so no more irritation with e-readers that only handle one or two formats). The touch screen includes handwriting recognition that can convert even my crummy writing into text and drop into into a document. I'm loving it.
For those looking for a reason to hold onto their hard earned money it has the usual laptop limitations with regard to setting the best viewing angle. This can be more or less of an issue depending on what you're doing, and where you are (i.e lighting). However I'm used to that with other laptops so I'm comfortable with it. It's also clearly heavier than most e-readers but, again, that's fine with me. It's still lighter than some of my printed books, and lighter than my previous laptop.
It's not exactly a Gaming Monster

but I am managing to play Dragon Age on it - successfully so far, although the settings are duly watered down. It came with an external hard drive that connects via USB, so I'm running the game with a cracked exe to save lugging the drive around.
There's a picture of it alongside some of my books and other reading devices to give a rough idea of scale on another thread here. It's 8 posts down. Click for a bigger pic.
jswinden's netbook/tablet thread
Cheers,
Chris