Had the opportunity to play with the

Toughbook-18
Fully Rugged, Wireless Notebook PC Convertible to Tablet PC

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,

there must be pro's and cons for either of them

has anyone else here evaluated the differences?

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!





Thanks,

Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC

See the Museum's Web Site at www.smecc.org







--
Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC

Please check our web site at
http://www.smecc.org
to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we
buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us.

address:

coury house / smecc
5802 w palmaire ave
glendale az 85301

On 1/11/2005 1:01:03 PM, "ed sharpe" wrote:
>Had the opportunity to play with the
>
>Toughbook-18
>Fully Rugged, Wireless Notebook PC Convertible to Tablet PC
>
>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,
>
>there must be pro's and cons for either of them
>
>has anyone else here evaluated the differences?
>
>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!
>
>
>
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC
>
>See the Museum's Web Site at www.smecc.org
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>--
>Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
>
>Please check our web site at
> http://www.smecc.org
>to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we
>buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us.
>
>address:
>
> coury house / smecc
>5802 w palmaire ave
>glendale az 85301
>
>
>
>

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!




--
John D [MVP]

John:

Fantastic thread thank you very much!

ed
"JDThree [MVP]" <john@removeforspam.engagenet.com> wrote in message
news:e18G2WG%23EHA.220@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> On 1/11/2005 1:01:03 PM, "ed sharpe" wrote:
>>Had the opportunity to play with the
>>
>>Toughbook-18
>>Fully Rugged, Wireless Notebook PC Convertible to Tablet PC
>>
>>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,
>>
>>there must be pro's and cons for either of them
>>
>>has anyone else here evaluated the differences?
>>
>>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!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC
>>
>>See the Museum's Web Site at www.smecc.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
>>
>>Please check our web site at
>> http://www.smecc.org
>>to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we
>>buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us.
>>
>>address:
>>
>> coury house / smecc
>>5802 w palmaire ave
>>glendale az 85301
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> 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!
>
>
>
>
> --
> John D [MVP]