Why a Tablet PC May be Right For You.

Get ready for a new type of computer that is about to be as common when the laptop. In fact, you could think of it as the next evolutionary step of this laptop.
Before you replace your current portable computer, you might want to get yourself informed using this handy new machine that is known as the Tablet PC.
Of all the personal technology advances we've seen over the past five years, the Tablet PC has to rank among the most significant. For the Tablet PC is truly one of the most innovative and useful products that is just now starting in order to gain major traction. These machines, which are powered by a specially tweaked version from the Windows XP operating technique, allow users to scribble notes on a screen with a pen-like stylus, turning handwriting or block printing into what's called handheld ink.
Although Tablet PCs have been on the market for a few yrs now, much of the general public has been unexposed for them. That's about to shift. Tablet PCs are now showing up on TV commercials, in magazine and journal ads and being exuberantly talked about through word of mouth. Maybe it's time for you to consider one.
Some Tablets are slate models primarily. That means there is no keyboard, just the display. You write on them all like those old Etch-a-Sketches that kids used to play with. Others, are called convertibles. Flip the screen up and it looks and works like a notebook computer, with the keyboard, CD/DVD slot, track pad and the like. But swivel the television screen around and down over the keyboard and it's a new slate.
All of that big computer makers build Tablet PC models: Dell, Gateway, Toshiba, Lenovo (IBM), Fujitsu and others. There are a small amount of Tablet-only makers, too, like Motion Computing and Tough Computers. Even Apple Computer with its fabled Macintosh line is rumored to be close to developing any Tablet version.
You could possibly get a Tablet PC for the purpose of arounf $1, 800 with most of the features we all request in portable computers like wo-fi Internet access and Bluetooth wireless. Some models have built-in CD. DVD drives (which adds to the weight factor), others include them as external instruments.
Whatever you do, make sure you get enough memory to run all those cool software programs. My recommendation is at least one GB, instead of the standard 512MB on most fitness equipment.
Over the past couple of years, Tablets have sold fairly well in what are known as vertical areas, among niche interest groups like students (great meant for note-taking and recording lectures), medical professionals (for keeping track of patient records) and employees (for forms and order-taking). Indeed, some schools are at present giving Tablet PCs to their students, that's how great they are as educational tools.
But now that the momentum has developed, most observers are convinced the real market is much much larger... and largely untapped, if you'll excuse the pun.
The Tablet PC does everything a regular computer does. It has a complete Windows xp operating system and can run all of the normal programs and applications people are used to on your desktops and laptops. The big difference is that with a good Tablet PC, you may also use that electronic stylus to run many programs, taking notes by hand or tapping on the person letters of an on-screen key pad representation to type.
Handwriting can be converted to type with only a tap of the stylus, though, obviously, the neater you write or print, the more accurate will be the conversion into type.
I've been a a tablet user for several years and, truthfully, I seldom convert handwritten notes on the Tablet. I don't need to. I can read my own notes just fine. And there's something satisfyingly own about seeing my scribbes on a computer screen. It's sort of the ultimate in creating to order.
While a Tablet does everything a regular computer does, they have the added advantage of numerous special tablet-only software other improvements. I bought a $39 add-on to the Outlook program that helps me use digital ink to enter calendar, to-do, journal and contact info. And a $99 plan called PlanPlus from Franklin Covey puts the equivalent of a Franklin Planner with my Tablet. I've fallen in love with this application.
Then there's Microsoft OneNote, which comes bundled on many of the Tablets sold today or can be purchased separately for $99. OneNote I believe, is the most amazingly useful application for just about any platform I have ever before tried.
Besides the digital ink note-taking and organizational options, OneNote uses the built in microphone on the Islate to record meetings, lectures, interviews, whatever you would like. As you take notes of a presentation and hear a specific thing that's important, make a star or exclamation mark next to someone's words that you might have jotted down, just as you do with pen together with paper notes. Afterwards, as you review the notes, you can tap on the special mark you designed to hear the actual recording from the subject as the presenter spoke the internet.
No matter how much I personally use OneNote, it blows me away every time.
If you're thinking in regards to a new laptop and if note-taking is a part of your life, a tablet should be at the top of your shopping list.
It's that handy.
Is a Tablet PC right for you?
Obviously, only you can answer that. But it's been my esperience like a longtime road warrior who has used all sorts of laptops, that the Tablet PC offers so many more features and so even more convenience than a standard laptop we would never go backside.
I bet you will feel the same.