Greetings. I am new to the group and posted the below message the other day in the Hardware Zone under Toshiba but it is a more generic query than that. I am not yet a Tablet PC user but am anxious to be one and am looking to you all for your experienced advice to help me choose wisely.

I have been reading up on the Tablet PC and it sounds like something that could serve my very different purposes: taking notes and keeping documentation on my patients; and as a tool for my art work. I draw, paint, and I often use photos as models. Ideally for the medical purposes I would like to put in a template of the forms we use for our office notes and other forms and be able to hand write notes that I can put into the different sections of the form and then print them out later in legible text. The word seems to be that the hand writing recognition programs are getting better and better. Or even use voice recognition in the same way. For the art aspect, I have many saved images of say tropical flowers and palm trees etc that I have backed up on a disc to use if I need to see how the light reflects off a bunch of green bananas, etc. I was also reading about an art program that would let you draw as with dry pastels. Anyway, I can not tell which tablet out there would serve my purposes best. I have appreciated the experience I read in the threads on this website and hope that you all can help me select. I am so anxious to buy one but want to feel confident about the purchase.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions and insights.
Sincerely,
ashawhan