I am glad to have found this site and hope that I contribute to the forum.

I currently have a an ACER, Motion Computing, Toshiba and Fujitsu. I bought these in Janurary 2003 to conduct research and see how feasible they were to conduct household surveys. I love all the machines and each one has its positives and negatives. The handwriting recognition is still not quite there for us. The machines that I have are not that great on the battery life, but I know that area is improving. We need at least 6-8 hours of battery and from what I read some manufactures are almost there.

Later, I hope to share more in depth thoughts on each machine from my experience and would love to hear what others think about theirs.

I am jealous because you have all of those Tablet PCs :D

Welcome to the forums and please share with us any and all comparisons of these Tablet PCs. Oh ! Have you upgraded to Service Pack 2? Has it been a positive experience? What type of software are you mainly using? Are you using specialy developed software?

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I have not upgraded all of them. I upgraded the Motion with too much trouble. I have been using the motion the most of all the tablets. I have loan out the other Tablets to staff members so that we can get a better gauge of how useful they are. We bought these tablets to see if we could improve our survey data collection activities but unfortnately the software (Blaise) that our agency uses to develop questionnaires does not take advantage of the Tablet features. Hopefully that will change this fall and we can resume testing.

Wow. You have quite a selection of Tablet PCs!!!

Yes, though they are all similar, each have subtle differences that may make one model better for some users over another.

If you're after long battery life, without hot swapping batteries, check out the Tatung / Electrovaya Scribblers. They get 6 - 7 hours, depending on what applications you're using, settings, etc. Though they don't have an outdoor viewable screen, you can read them outside better than most traditional displays. Layne has a picture in his article about using it in the classroom where you can see the display outside. It might be too much of a compromise for you, but worth checking out.

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