<p>This stems from a promotion I saw on facebook for a tablet through Lenovo which got me thinking about the pro/cons. </p>
<p>For those of you who do not already have a laptop for Pton, have you given any thought to buying a tablet pc? Do any current students have one and/or have an opinion about the usefulness of one? Do you think it would be useful for taking notes on during lectures and having your notes in your laptop? </p>
<p>Any other thoughts would help.</p>
<p>It's not princeton specific but there are numerous threads in the College Life forum that discuss this.</p>
<p>One specifically: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=78663%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=78663</a></p>
<p>If Tablet PC's were affordable, heck yes, I would have gotten one. But when I was looking at them they had just come on the market, and had a hefty premium attached.</p>
<p>Whether or not you want one depends entirely on how you see yourself using your laptop. If you wish you could take ALL your notes on your computer, including math, then a Tablet PC would be useful for you. If you don't think you'd ever take notes on a laptop, then the Tablet would probably be a waste for you -- spend the extra money on features you really want.</p>
<p>Ashley</p>
<p>My son (now a junior) bought the Dell model with enhanced memory through Princeton prior to his freshman year. He was very satisfied with it.
However, he is a physics major and getting certificates in applied math & finance. Several of his friends with similar majors used Tablet PCs for their problem sets. He found that he could save hours rewriting his problem sets on his regular laptop to make them more legible by using a Tablet PC. After researching the Tablet PCs, he purchased a Motion Computing M1400 Tablet PC the second semester of his sophomore year. The price range for the Tablet PCs, as with regular laptops, just depends on how many bells and whistle you add.
Good Luck!</p>
<p>If you really want a tablet and can't afford one, just buy a USB writing tablet and plug it into your laptop when you want to use it.</p>
<p>I was considering that option, but I'm under the impression that they don't function the same way as tablet PCs because you can't actually see what you're writing on the tablet, only on the screen of the computer.</p>
<p>Yeah that's one thing I don't like about USB tablets... it's like drawing in the darkness with glow-in-the-dark lead, if you can figure out that analogy.</p>
<p>Wouldn't it be like...drawing in the light with glow in the dark lead? Since you can't see what you're writing in the light but you can see yourself/the pen etc?</p>
<p>I meant like in the dark, if you lift your pen, you don't know precisely where it is if you put it back down again to continue writing. Works both ways... there's no "pencil to paper" link lol</p>
<p>But in the dark, you can see what you just wrote, on the place you just wrote it if you're using glow in the dark ink. Where as the usb tablet thing, you just have blank tablet in front ofyou the whole time.</p>
<p>Alright alright it doesn't matter lol they suck anyway.</p>
<p>haha yeah, i think before that facebook deal tablets were prohibitively expensive. i ordered it through there, it was cheaper than the SCI computers anyway, and much better.</p>
<p>I thought you JUST said you got a thinkpad? I'm confused :confused:</p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>yeah i got the ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC. IBM makes Tablets now. the facebook deal! you know that!</p>
<p>Oh oh oooohhh
:p </p>
<p>I bet you get it before I get my SCI computer...they are SO slow!
Sighh typical</p>
<p>nah theyre taking 3 weeks, they SAY.</p>
<p>(damn 60 second rule)</p>
<p>Yea but my SCI order has been pushed back three or four times already. I ordered it more than two weeks ago.</p>
<p>summer laziness. the energy's not happening here on campus right now.</p>
<p>I thought it was apple's fault though, because the emails are coming from them and I assume they're shipping it. </p>
<p>What are you doing this summer? It seem like you're just walking around the pton campus lol</p>
<p>yeah i have this research job on campus, but im not doing a whole lot. i spend much of my day on cc. then i explore after work. it'll be my duty as a townie to knwo what and where everything is. im feeling the pressure.</p>