Required Tablet PC for Engineering

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<p>I'm going to University of Louisville, and their Speed school of Engineering requires all freshman students to purchase a tablet PC with the following specs:
-Convertible screen that uses a pen and is an 'active display' rather than a basic touch screen (no clue what the last bit means?)
-Dual core processors
-At least 320 GB hard drive and 4 GB RAM
-Wireless 5100 or 5300
-Windows 7 Professional
-3 Year Warranty (less worried about this)</p>

<p>They recommend the Lenovo Thinkpad X230 Convertible "Select Model", which run about $1,500. As I'm a college kid with no money, I'm looking for a cheaper alternative. Any other recommendations, or ideas of where I can find the Lenovo cheap?
Thanks much!
Elizabeth</p>

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<p>Are you allowed to have higher specs or even Windows 8?</p>

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<p>You should check out the Lenovo Twist PC which has similar specs but can be had for around $750.
[Buy</a> a Convertible Laptop - Lenovo S230u ThinkPad Twist Ultrabooks | Lenovo | (US)](<a href=“Lenovo Official US Site | Laptops, PCs, Tablets & Data Center | Lenovo US”>Lenovo Official US Site | Laptops, PCs, Tablets & Data Center | Lenovo US)</p>

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<p>Don’t know if it helps much but here it is for 1300: [Lenovo</a> ThinkPad X230 343522U 12.5" LED Tablet PC - Core i5 i5-3320M 2.6GHz - Black - Newegg.com](<a href=“Are you a human?”>Are you a human?)</p>

<p>Also, the suggestion of sterdog72 is on sale right now for St. Patrick’s day. Jump on it! I would go with that one.</p>

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<p>I would look into a Microsoft Surface Pro. The only thing that does not meet the requirements listed is the storage, but you can easily fix that with a small external hard drive.</p>

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<p>I bought a tablet, the brand is Irulu, the system is Android 4.03.
The thing is I set up a passwork on this tablet last week, and I forgot it!!! lol.
What can I do now?! I really need this tablet and I love it so much.
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<p>I’m not sure that a Surface Pro could do the job. Students at our college also use tablet computers with similar specs to Louisville, and one of the teachers acquired a Surface Pro to see if it would work. As noted, there is insufficient memory, but more importantly, the video display was not able to handle the demands of their 3-D modeling program, SolidWorks. He also noted that the Surface Pro screen size was not optimal for the graphics work that engineers need to do.</p>

<p>Whatever you choose, make sure that it has graphics capability equal to the Lenovo, otherwise you might have problems.</p>

<p>High-end Windows tablet computers are not cheap; I’m pretty sure that you cannot do it for less than $1K. If that is the case, you might consider figuring out how to spend a few more $hundred to get a really good one. You are going to live on that computer for at least 4 years of heavy-duty programming and graphics work, so don’t scrimp.</p>