Well, the interesting thing to me is the tablet. Nobody is talking about the real issue though... Multi-touch is a neat idea and maybe some killer app will come along and really show a use for it... But for now, the question is really how they are going to implement the fact that it is obviously both and active and passive digitizer (I can't believe they'd release a completely passive tablet). So.. the problem becomes palm and finger sensitivity while trying to write with the pen. It's an issue which has made previous systems much less than spectacular and solving it correctly will I think be a requirement of this thing actually being a workable day to day tablet.
haha... Yes... that is the funny part. It should be just that simple, shouldn't it? They would not be the first to not have implemented this though if they left that simple thing off. Now... I'm all for fancy feedback control and AI trying to determine when I want the active and when I want the passive (and so disable/enable automagically) .... but.... yes.... PLEASE.... give me a simple switch which over rides all of that and lets me choose exactly what I want if it comes to that. That way I don't have to put up with the cleverness when it isn't working right and I can still get my stuff done happily. YES... the perfect solution... I'm just saying.... let's wait and see if they did it... or any other reasonable thing. I'm really hoping they did.
The other thing it needs, which is often left off all but the nicer business class machines, is a decent docking station. I have an HP tc4200 right now and it's been fine. One of the best things about it is that they were sold through the business products of hp so it was well spec'd with these kinds of extras. Of course you had to pay extra but that is fine.... So now I get home with my mobile tablet and I plunk it down easily into it's docking station (which hasn't skipped a beat in several years of use) and my batteries get charged and my desktop mouse becomes live on the system and it switches to my decent sized desktop lcd (this lcd part doesn't always work automatically and smoothly... but it often does and is actually better at this with vista than xp was ... and when that fails it's a simple right click on the desktop to select my external monitor configuration from a menu and correct it.) I mean I drag this thing around a lot... almost daily..... and I don't want to be messing about plugging in charge cables and connecting video cables or even fishing around for the right angle on the usb port every time I want to hook it back up ..... no sir... that sounds a royal pain... I come in, I plop the laptop down... it takes literally 2 seconds and that's it... I can leave it charge and go do what I want or I can turn it on and enjoy the comfort of my normal mouse and big screen. Brilliant.....
I wish apple would release a docking station already. With all of the macbook sales, and how they try to do away with wires ... it would be nice to not have to pay an arm and a leg for a bookend.
Got people thinking of "oooh a docking station" *checks the price* "fuck all of that, I'll just plug it in."
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Well, the interesting thing to me is the tablet.
Nobody is talking about the real issue though...
Multi-touch is a neat idea and maybe some killer app will come along and really show a use for it...
But for now, the question is really how they are going to implement the fact that it is obviously both and active and passive digitizer (I can't believe they'd release a completely passive tablet).
So.. the problem becomes palm and finger sensitivity while trying to write with the pen.
It's an issue which has made previous systems much less than spectacular and solving it correctly will I think be a requirement of this thing actually being a workable day to day tablet.
- Mike
I could only assume that when the pen is being used, finger strokes would be ignored...
or in any case, they could implement a manual switch
problem solved :)
haha... Yes... that is the funny part. It should be just that simple, shouldn't it?
They would not be the first to not have implemented this though if they left that simple thing off.
Now... I'm all for fancy feedback control and AI trying to determine when I want the active and when I want the passive (and so disable/enable automagically) .... but.... yes.... PLEASE.... give me a simple switch which over rides all of that and lets me choose exactly what I want if it comes to that.
That way I don't have to put up with the cleverness when it isn't working right and I can still get my stuff done happily.
YES... the perfect solution...
I'm just saying.... let's wait and see if they did it... or any other reasonable thing.
I'm really hoping they did.
- Mike
The other thing it needs, which is often left off all but the nicer business class machines, is a decent docking station.
I have an HP tc4200 right now and it's been fine. One of the best things about it is that they were sold through the business products of hp so it was well spec'd with these kinds of extras. Of course you had to pay extra but that is fine....
So now I get home with my mobile tablet and I plunk it down easily into it's docking station (which hasn't skipped a beat in several years of use) and my batteries get charged and my desktop mouse becomes live on the system and it switches to my decent sized desktop lcd (this lcd part doesn't always work automatically and smoothly... but it often does and is actually better at this with vista than xp was ... and when that fails it's a simple right click on the desktop to select my external monitor configuration from a menu and correct it.)
I mean I drag this thing around a lot... almost daily..... and I don't want to be messing about plugging in charge cables and connecting video cables or even fishing around for the right angle on the usb port every time I want to hook it back up ..... no sir... that sounds a royal pain...
I come in, I plop the laptop down... it takes literally 2 seconds and that's it... I can leave it charge and go do what I want or I can turn it on and enjoy the comfort of my normal mouse and big screen.
Brilliant.....
- Mike
I wish apple would release a docking station already. With all of the macbook sales, and how they try to do away with wires ... it would be nice to not have to pay an arm and a leg for a bookend.
Got people thinking of "oooh a docking station" *checks the price* "fuck all of that, I'll just plug it in."