Tablet PC - Should I??

ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
edited August 2003 in Hardware
I need some advice guys...

I've got the chance to buy an ACER Travel Mate C100 tablet PC for £500 (about $750 US).

It's light and will do all I need for trips home and so on.. rather than an all singing and dancing super noteback ;)

https://www.acernotebooks.co.uk/acersite/datasheets/t100.html

That's the specs.. it's normal retail is £1200+

http://www.meltdown.fsnet.co.uk/pics/tablet/tab1.jpg

Pic above :)

What do you think?? Bare in mind.. this is just for general usage.. no gaming etc...

Comments

  • RobRob Detroit, MI
    edited August 2003
    Well, couple things

    From what I've seen, the tablet PC's are underpowered for the price your paying. Usually, a comparable 'notebook' is a bit cheaper. I didn't do a hard nosed compairison of your model to any notebook, just a general observation.

    Notice the max system memory is 256, that might concern me, depending on how hard you plan to use it.

    Personally, tablets aren't even in my list of possibilitys as linux usage is not possible.

    But, as always, if you can get a deal on something that works for your needs then take it. If your going to be using it for a light duty computing, and don't mind being locked into a windows solution, then its probably a good deal. It would make for a good companion interface, checking emails, loging into remote servers, chatting. Just make sure the tablet is the way you want to go over more traditional designs.
  • RobRob Detroit, MI
    edited August 2003
    I should add, im very happy with the notebook I just got. The one I posted about in the trading section.

    Only downside is videos look like crap, but normal computing its working very well. I use it for everything BUT heavy applications I tunnel to my workstation and just use this as a display.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    It's only cause it is damn cheap that I am considering it :)

    It's uses would be basic dialup, bit of WLan use in the office (eventually), internet, email, SSH, FTP, basic HTML and some basic photochop (nothing big at all).

    The weight of it for the price was the part that grabbed my eye. Im a shortass mate (5ft 2in) ;D .. so I need something lightweight!

    Im trying to talk him into £450.. but I doubt my chances. Just can't find bugga all else that is as light for the money.. with half way decent functionality :(

    Thanks for stopping in and giving me your thoughts Rob. Appreciated mate.
  • ClutchClutch North Carolina New
    edited August 2003
    Not bad for the price, but it is made by acer, they might have improved on their products from 7 years ago, but I took an oath to never buy another acer product ever.
  • FlintstoneFlintstone SE Florida
    edited August 2003
    Having been to the Microsoft sendoff party here in the states, they are kind of intriging to me also. BUT, every one they trotted out hopped, skipped, jumped and hung-up every time you asked it to do a mundane task that my PII366 notebook would just DO. I've decided to just sit back and wait for the next generation to show up with faster processors, more memory and better graphics that come closer to my self built desktop than my Gateway built P166MMX Gateway w/64 Megs of pc66 memory running W95!!

    My $.02US

    Flint:wave:
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    I got it cheap :)

    It's very light and I can even run photoshop on it just fine. Everything works just fine on it (except games but Im not bothered about that)..

    It's a nice unit, I haven't really used it in tablet mode _yet_ but in notebook mode, It's fast :)

    A happy purchase :)
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