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Originally Posted by Chrissss

...Slates will always be more than Convertibles, regrettably. You might want to look at the Refurbished market. You get a 'like-new' machine with warranty that has probably had a more thorough testing than the original device. You can save yourself usually $200+ on a refurb. Chris...

You are no doubt correct on that point...

My target for a new acquisition is late aug/early sept of this year. I'll keep looking around and reading up on these. It's just too much money to not be 100% sure about on one of these.

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Chrissss

One of the real basics that everyone should run on a TPC is MS Office 2003.

MS did quite a good job of integrating ink into their Office products.

I've got Office 2003 Pro and was playing around with InfoPath for the first time a few days ago. As a learning exercise I tried creating a sales form my company uses to rent and lease construction equipment.

It was surprisingly easy to do, and so many features are built into the form making software that I really enjoy playing with it. What I truly found great was that when I opened the form outside of the form editor, I was presented with a pop-up stating that InfoPath had detected that the form was being used on a TabletPC so Inking mode had automatically been enabled to allow ink to be used in all text entry boxes.

I loved that. So Cool!!

The ink recognition of data I entered by pen was about 98% accurate and easily correctable. Conversion to text was automatic after a short delay to let it know I had finished writing.

If you have, or are planning to get, a TPC you really need to have Office.

And apparently Ink integration will be even deeper in Vista TabletPC Edition and office 2007. That will be something to see!

Chris...

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Originally Posted by Chrissss

One of the real basics that everyone should run on a TPC is MS Office 2003....

That LS800 I played with last month had Office 2003 on it and you are right. It is sweet... very easy to control with voice recognition too...

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Chrissss

Here's another excellent piece of TabletPC software:

http://www.einsteintech.net/TEO/

I bought this back in Version 2.0 and it was a decent app. Version 3.0 (still in beta) looks to be one of those true "killer apps" for TPC's.

Basically, TEO (Tablet Enhancements for Outlook) adds direct inking capabilities to all Outlook functions. In v3.0 this has been extended to excellent notetaking and Journalling capabilities, mapping, Wikipedia integration, Skype integration, and more.

There is an excellent review of the beta here:

http://www.studenttabletpc.com/2006/...nd_teo_30.html

Chris...

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I just found this little MS Excel add-in for TabletPC's.

It's called TipX and it adds direct inking into cells. And it's cheap, too... $20.

I use Excel quite a bit so it's a winner in my book. :approve:

Chris...

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That does look cool. :approve:

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