John:

Fantastic thread thank you very much!

ed
"JDThree [MVP]" <john@removeforspam.engagenet.com> wrote in message
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> On 1/11/2005 1:01:03 PM, "ed sharpe" wrote:
>>Had the opportunity to play with the
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>>Toughbook-18
>>Fully Rugged, Wireless Notebook PC Convertible to Tablet PC
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>>there seem to be two versions of this computer one is the touchscreen (
>>normal stylus) and the other is the tablet version with the Wacom type
>>pen,
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>>there must be pro's and cons for either of them
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>>has anyone else here evaluated the differences?
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>>I am amazed with the ruggedness of this... you could smash a desk with
>>this
>>and the desk would die but the laptop would keep on ticking!
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>>Thanks,
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>>Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC
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>>See the Museum's Web Site at www.smecc.org
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>>Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
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>> http://www.smecc.org
>>to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we
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>
> One of the things is that with the normal touchscreen version, you can use
> things other than the special digitizer pen, like a normal PDA screen. But
> from what I recall they're not as "precise" - you don't get as fine a
> determination of location of the pen, so things like graphics programs are
> harder to deal with since you lose the real fine granular control. Also,
> there's no pressure sensitivity.
>
> From what I can see on their website, the touchscreen version comes with
> XP
> Professional and panasonic's own handwriting program, NOT Microsoft's
> tablet
> pc operating system, so all you've seen or read about the tablet PC
> version
> of XP and the handwriting recognition wouldn't apply to this one. The
> digitizer version *does* come with tablet PC and all the things it brings
> to
> the computer.
>
> Also, remember as you're writing, if your resting your hand on the screen,
> you'll have that trying to input as well. With a dizitizer, it doesn't
> notice
> the hand so writing is fine and your hand resting as you use the pen
> doesn't
> do anything to the input.
>
> The TabletPCBuzz website has a thread with a little info if you haven't
> seen
> it:
>
>
> http://www.tabletpcbuzz.com/forum/to...reen,panasonic
>
>
> Hope this helps some!
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>
>
> --
> John D [MVP]