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<p>I’ve had teachers that ban “computers”, but told me it was okay to use my tablet in slate mode. The only teacher that came close to banning my tablet was my ochem teacher during lab, and it wasn’t even a full out ban, just that I couldn’t put my computer in the hood. That’s the only class I haven’t used mine in…well, except for gym. I also had a history teacher that didn’t allow laptops while allowing my tablet in slate mode, but then allowed me to use mine in laptop mode after she asked me to take notes for a student with special needs.</p>
<p>Fwiw, there are smaller tablets too. One tablet, the Fujitsu u820, is smaller than most netbooks, but has a higher resolution screen than most netbooks. It’s small enough that if you really wanted to be sneaky (and waste money), you could cut a hole in the pages of a textbook and hide the u820 in it. I actually had a friend that wanted to do this because he took the bus and wanted to hide his computer somehow. The only thing I don’t like about the smaller tablets is that they use a pda style screen where you have to use a plastic stick to press down to write, whereas my style of pen can move the cursor without touching the screen…hard to explain, but it feels much more natural. I would already have the u820 if it used the type of pen on my current tablet.</p>