Poll: Tablet PC's - How do you feel?

[AgentDarkmoon]

I'm waiting for a tablet that is the size of my current laptop screen (like 13 inches), as thin as a mac air (heck not even the new one, can be the original, something that's half an inch thick or less), has touchscreen and all the appropriate ports, and if doesn't have a built in cd player has an adapter you can plug in. Also should have at least 200, 250 GB of memory and 4-8 GB of RAM, and a reasonable battery life (2-3 hours of actual use). A webcam built in would also be nice, as would a good/high quality video card, although the feasibility of that in the package I've described is dubious to me.

It will probably be several years, but I'm patient. The laptop I've got works for now, and I have a desktop for gaming.

 

[Anton P. Nym]

I've been using Tablet PCs for 5 years now; I bought the Samsung Q1 the month after it was released, and last July I finally replaced the poor battered thing* with a Viliv EX70X. The Q1 ran Windows XP Tablet, and my Viliv runs Windows 7 Home Premium**.

I love the form factor; a 7" slate fits into a briefcase or travel bag very easily, but isn't so small that you're squinting when trying to read documents. I go with the Project Origami [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMPC] standard tablets because I like keeping everything in MS Office, and because I like using handwriting recognition when taking notes. (All hail OneNote.)

-- Steve

*and I mean battered; I dropped it on an El platform in Chicago, had it probed by customs agents on a train from Toronto to New York, and piled into a wall carrying it in Montreal. What a trooper...

** not recommended for most tablets, but I sprung for the 128GB solid-state drive on that one; with Glass turned on it chugs a bit, but turn off that and a few other of the flashy Aero features and it works alright.