Sven wrote:
>> What do you mean by "2000 series"?
>> Which manufacturer?
>
> The HPs HP tx2525 and the like.

Thanks for clarifying!

> I noticed when I was looking, every
> big box store seemed to have their own particular build with just a
> slightly different number. Some with 64B OS, some with more or less
> memory, drive space, etc, I actually have one of the older TX1327s
> that had only the touch screen, and the difference is remarkable,
> though physically the devices look virtually identical.

Yes, for sure. A device with a digitizer work ways better.
That's what we had discussed before.
It was my fault not see that the HP 2xxx models would have both.
But the presence of a touch-screen feature may be a disadvantage too as
dee.cee.vee thread "Digitizer problems" shows.

> I have a
> gut feel that the 64B OS makes a lot of difference in how Vista
> runs. I have noticed that on a couple of new machines, though I
> have not yet taken a box loaded with 32B and rebuilt it with 64 to
> see if I could see a difference.

Do you really think that Vista-64 would bring any advantages as far as
the functionality of the digitizer and ink recognition is concerned?
Any sources for that?

So far my opinion - from carefully studying all of what is posted in the
German Vista-newsgroups - is that the 64-bit versions of Vista are not
really useful and one would better go with 32-bit unless one had some
software requiring 64-bit.
There are number of drawbacks, f.e. no printer for OneNote (which is one
of the true must-have things on a TabletPC).

Rainald