After one VB User Group presentation and the Mobility Group presentation, I was tired of lugging my extremely portable workstation tower to give demonstrations. So, I now am the proud owner of a new PC. A Tablet PC!
Ok, so I've only been playing with it for about a day, and I'm pretty excited. This thing is sweet! I got the Averatec C3500 from MicroCenter. Looks nice, wireless, write on the screen (comes with OneNote pre-installed), all that jazz. I am going to play with the speech recognition next.
As cool as this thing is, I've spent abot 5 hours getting it set up. I had to install SP2 and other security updates. I put on some spyware protection and an antivirus program better than the 90 day trial of Norton AV. Seems like a lot of work to get a brand new machine really ready for prime time. If it seems like a lot of work for someone like me, a geeky computer professional, how must this seems to someone who is mostly computer illiterate?
Anyway, as I keep playing with this, I'll post more information.
Machine specs (for the real geeks)
- 12“ screen
- AMD Athlon XP-M 2200 processor
- 512 Mb RAM
- 60 Gb hard drive
- Built in DVD/CD-RW
- Wireless 802.11g
-- Matt Ranlett