Re: [gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone?
Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu writes: Mainly what I am looking for is some sort of pen-mouse/tablet/touchscreen interface that makes drawing diagrams simpler (compared to a touchpad or the little dit that sits between the g,h, and b keys on a laptop). So if anyone knows of a laptop with this kind of built-in interface, it will also be good. Have you thought of attaching a drawing tablet to your existing laptop? I have a wacom tablet that works pretty well. I think there is an article on the wiki about installation. Cheers, Roger
Re: [gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone?
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:13:11AM -0330, Penguin Lover Roger Mason squawked: Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu writes: Mainly what I am looking for is some sort of pen-mouse/tablet/touchscreen interface that makes drawing diagrams simpler (compared to a touchpad or the little dit that sits between the g,h, and b keys on a laptop). So if anyone knows of a laptop with this kind of built-in interface, it will also be good. Have you thought of attaching a drawing tablet to your existing laptop? I have a wacom tablet that works pretty well. I think there is an article on the wiki about installation. Yes. I have thought about it. But if, for example, I sit in the economy class cabin on an airplane, a laptop + a wacom tablet hardly fits in the space in front of me. Ditto for a lot of conference/lecture halls. I am still not ruling out the possibility, but I want to first see what you all have to say about TabletPCs. W -- Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 805 days, 15:30
Re: [gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone?
I am running a lenovo x-61 table for my everyday machine and it works pretty well for me. I use Xournal to draw pics and take quick handwritten notes. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:13:11AM -0330, Penguin Lover Roger Mason squawked: Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu writes: Mainly what I am looking for is some sort of pen-mouse/tablet/touchscreen interface that makes drawing diagrams simpler (compared to a touchpad or the little dit that sits between the g,h, and b keys on a laptop). So if anyone knows of a laptop with this kind of built-in interface, it will also be good. Have you thought of attaching a drawing tablet to your existing laptop? I have a wacom tablet that works pretty well. I think there is an article on the wiki about installation. Yes. I have thought about it. But if, for example, I sit in the economy class cabin on an airplane, a laptop + a wacom tablet hardly fits in the space in front of me. Ditto for a lot of conference/lecture halls. I am still not ruling out the possibility, but I want to first see what you all have to say about TabletPCs. W -- Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 805 days, 15:30 -- Nor aught availed him now To have build in Heaven high towersNor did he scape By all his engines But was headlong sent with his industrious crew To build in Hell Milton, Paradise Lost
Re: [gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone?
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 02:16:34PM -0500, Penguin Lover Vizo Allman squawked: I am running a lenovo x-61 table for my everyday machine and it works pretty well for me. I use Xournal to draw pics and take quick handwritten notes. Ooh, Xournal is wonderful. It it also useful for my current normal laptop. I love its PDF annotation mode. The X61 looks nice. I'm having a bit of difficulty locating the video card on their specs page (probably just me being stupid or something), can you tell me what video it uses? The Intel Wifi looks good, and lenovo's website is looking like it is having a sale right now (almost half of the list price!) When you say Works pretty well, does it mean that there's nothing to complain about or except for this little itty bit of problem [insert problem here]? Thanks for your response! W -- If you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 805 days, 22:44
[gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone?
Hi: Does anyone on the list have any experience with Tablet PCs? I know many of the Tablets have guides to installation on Gentoo-wiki. Does anyone have a personal story to share? Any suggestions of a good, sturdy, Tablet that I should consider to buy? I primarily am looking for a device to help note-taking in class. I can touch-type in LaTeX quickly enough to catch up to most lecturers using blackboards, but using a conventional laptop there is almost no way for me to enter diagrams and simple illustrations. I won't need handwriting recognition that much: I can still do my notes in vim with LaTeX, and just have a macro that opens a small canvas for free-hand drawing and embeds the saved image automatically in the TeX file. Mainly what I am looking for is some sort of pen-mouse/tablet/touchscreen interface that makes drawing diagrams simpler (compared to a touchpad or the little dit that sits between the g,h, and b keys on a laptop). So if anyone knows of a laptop with this kind of built-in interface, it will also be good. I guess my question is: if I am looking to buy a tablet pc, and am intending to run gentoo on it, what specific things should I look out for (assume I know zilch. I'd rather have redundant information than missing information)? Are there any particular brands or models that are known to work extremely well? Thanks, Willie -- Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs. -- Lily Tomlin Sortir en Pantoufles: up 804 days, 14:54
