<p>A Tablet PC is a standard laptop with the screen attached to the keyboard with a center hinge. This allows the screen to rotate and fold back against the keyboard. The result resembles a legal pad. The Tablet screen which uses a stylus to “write/” on is usually a Wacom licensed device. Check the different brands of Tablet PCs to verify which pen capture software it uses.</p>
<p>The big difference is with the “real estate” necessary to fit your laptop and Wacom pad on your desk. If you’re sitting in one of those high school/college desks with the right side arm rest, where do you put your writing pad? As others have pointed out, writing on the Wacom pad and then looking at your screen is vastly different than writing on a Tablet PC screen which mimics your pen and paper. </p>
<p>The original Tablet PC math program is Xthink’s MathJournal: [url=<a href=“http://www.xthink.com/MathJournal.html]xThink[/url”>http://www.xthink.com/MathJournal.html]xThink[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Further, Tablet PCs come with Microsoft’s OneNote and Journal (both powerful note taking software). OneNote takes either typed or hand written input and allows you to record a lecture using the Tablet PC’s built in mic. As you write down your notes, you can add an audio mark that will play back that portion of the lecture relative to your note. </p>
<p>But wait, there’s more! In OneNote you can enhance your notes with any kind of Web content. Images, video, music, articles, whatever… Unclear about a particular note that you’ve typed or written, find Web content that fleshes out and deepens your understanding of that material. </p>
<p>Now when you go back and review, you can read what you wrote, play back what your professor said about that subject during the lecture, play back any Web based content you attached to a particular note and perhaps best of all, search across notes on particular keywords.</p>