Tablet PC
Season 6, Episode 23
Original air date: 09/13/2008
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Original Airdate: March 15, 2008
Steve shows us the Lenovo Tablet PC. No longer do you need to rely on your keyboard to input information – the X61 has fully integrated pen-based functions, allowing you to write directly onto your computer! This new PC is ideal for users who need an ultra-portable notebook but refuse to sacrifice durability or performance.
Steve then explores the world of VOIP, or Voice-over-IP. He looks at Vonage’s V-Portal, which enables you to check your messages on line from anywhere you have an Internet connection.
Caroline introduces us to Weebly, a clever website building tool for non-techies. It offers a drag and drop interface for adding content such as photos, videos and maps. You can even create your own blog using this online publishing tool.
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My HP Tablet PC....
My current laptop is a HP Pavilion tx1416 Tablet PC.. I love all of the features my little PC has such as... Copy/Paste shortcuts, Thumb Scanner on top left of monitor, and many other things. My Tablet has made sending emails and editing business papers easier than using my works Fax Machine. Tablet PC make everything easier (and more fun) to do. For anyone this is thinking of buying their first laptop or getting a Tablet PC i suggest getting a laptop from HP (Specifically the 1400 Series).
-Dylan
Lenovo x61 Tablet
Just finished watching the 9/13/2008 show about the Lenovo x61 tablet. This is a great show and I learned a lot about my x61 and about Vista with tablets that I'd not figured out on my own even after a year. I'm a university professor and I've been using a tablet to give "chalkboard" lectures for several years now. I also have a slate style tablet (Fujitsu ST5022) and find I sometime prefer the slate format. Giving a lecture using a Tablet and projector is much better that a chalkboard (and infinitely better than a whiteboard) and you have the option to save your lecture and can provide electronic copies to absent students.
Steve, as great as the Tablet functionality in windows is, there is still one annoying flaw that I encounter. In theory a tablet has four screen orientations (portrait, landscape, and the flipped versions of both). However, when you project these using a computer projector, the two flipped versions always project upside down! Now who would want that? You might say "well just stick to the other two orientations when giving a presentation"; however, that is not always optimal. Most Tablets have useful buttons around the perimeter of the screen and I usually want to choose an orientation that allows me to write comfortably on the screen and there should be no chance that I will accidently press these buttons by resting my hand on them. So, that means, in landscape mode, I want the buttons above the screen (not below). However, this is usually the inverted landscape mode and that projects upside down! This is especially annoying on my Fujitsu which has a very nice array of useful buttons that do things like launch Outlook. You can imagine that it is disconcerting to have Outlook suddenly launch itselff in the middle of a presentation just because you rested your hand in the wrong place. So Steve, if you agree with me that this is silly, can you use your influence to suggest changes? Ultimately it probably needs a fix in Windows but maybe somebody could make an attachment to the video out port that allows me to flip the image. No matter what your chosen screen orientation, the video out should never be upside down.
Thanks for listenting.
Gary