At our firm, we have digitized our library and all our files. Now, what
we are looking for is to find the best slate pc to preload all the
digitized data and use it just as a "book".

Our staff will be also equipped with a normal ultraportable notebook to
perform common tasks like writing, calculations, internet browsing,
etc.

The slate computer will only serve as a "portable library".

Ideally, such slate computer should be very powerful, have a huge hard
disk capacity (60 Gb and up) and good communication equipment (wlan,
bluetooth).

I have browsed internet looking for opinions and reviews on slates, but
they are seldom. Apparenly, the tablet world is dominated by
convertibles.

I would be glad to read the opinions and advices of experienced people
that follow this newsgroup. Which is the best slate today ? The newest
one, etc. ?

Thank to everybody for reply

Eric

You might want to check out the comparison charts on Tablet PC MVP Terri
Stratton's web site: http://thetabletpc.net/ Then contact the various
companies she has listed. As a side note, it seems like you're duplicating
the efforts with two computers. Tablet PCs, with the proper RAM and hard
drive, can do everything you want that you're looking at two units to
accomplish.

My personal favorite would be one of the Motion Computing products with the
View Anywhere screen (indoor-outdoor), but it would also depend on the
environment in which your use would be deployed.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


<votatore@libero.it> wrote in message
news:1167321655.598706.170090@79g2000cws.googlegro ups.com...
> At our firm, we have digitized our library and all our files. Now, what
> we are looking for is to find the best slate pc to preload all the
> digitized data and use it just as a "book".
>
> Our staff will be also equipped with a normal ultraportable notebook to
> perform common tasks like writing, calculations, internet browsing,
> etc.
>
> The slate computer will only serve as a "portable library".
>
> Ideally, such slate computer should be very powerful, have a huge hard
> disk capacity (60 Gb and up) and good communication equipment (wlan,
> bluetooth).
>
> I have browsed internet looking for opinions and reviews on slates, but
> they are seldom. Apparenly, the tablet world is dominated by
> convertibles.
>
> I would be glad to read the opinions and advices of experienced people
> that follow this newsgroup. Which is the best slate today ? The newest
> one, etc. ?
>
> Thank to everybody for reply
>
> Eric
>

In message <1167321655.598706.170090@79g2000cws.googlegroups. com>,
votatore@libero.it writes
>At our firm, we have digitized our library and all our files. Now, what
>we are looking for is to find the best slate pc to preload all the
>digitized data and use it just as a "book".
>
>Our staff will be also equipped with a normal ultraportable notebook to
>perform common tasks like writing, calculations, internet browsing,
>etc.
>
>The slate computer will only serve as a "portable library".
>
>Ideally, such slate computer should be very powerful, have a huge hard
>disk capacity (60 Gb and up) and good communication equipment (wlan,
>bluetooth).
>
>I have browsed internet looking for opinions and reviews on slates, but
>they are seldom. Apparenly, the tablet world is dominated by
>convertibles.
>
>I would be glad to read the opinions and advices of experienced people
>that follow this newsgroup. Which is the best slate today ? The newest
>one, etc. ?
>
>Thank to everybody for reply
>
>Eric
>
Why powerful?

Why give them two machines? Why not use the slate as the ultraportable.
That way they can annotate the library should they wish. All the other
functionality of a UPMC is there as well.

However if you are only going to be using it as a portable library I
would have thought almost any slate on the market would be sufficiently
powerful. What you will really need I suspect is a long battery life
and, depending on the usage, possibly an outdoor screen.

I have a couple of slates - both fundamentally Tatung's. One their brand
I bought direct (1.5Ghz) and one (older 1Ghz) badged RM. They are
available in the US as Electrovya's . With the big (10 cell ) Tatung
battery I get 6 or 7 hours of simple use for reading documents. (I keep
my library of academic papers etc. on the tablet.) I think Electrovaya
fit them with their own - even longer life batteries.

Both machines have 11g Wlan - neither has bluetooth.

I like the Tatungs because they are light (3 lbs), have good battery
life, a fingerprint reader for access control, and most usefully in this
situation a little joystick. This is at the bottom right (when in
portrait mode) and works well for paging forwards and backwards through
a (pdf) document. Reading is simply a question of sitting comfortably,
with the slate in portrait mode and paging through the document using a
twitch of the thumb. So I don't need the stylus much.
--
Peter R Cook