tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-232235012024-08-28T06:54:24.091-05:00Experiences of a college professor learning to use his new Tablet PC... and other tech-related stuff.mpghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078223987239267111noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23223501.post-49927776252830955192007-12-13T13:05:00.001-06:002007-12-13T13:05:51.068-06:00

I am no longer maintaining this blog, but thought I'd leave it up for a while for posterity.

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If you believe what you read in the online forums, Gateway technical support is terrible. But I have had to experiences that have been just fine. The down side is... I've needed tech support twice. Both were because of problems with the stylus on my CX2618 Tablet PC.I noticed that I was having difficulty writing on the screen. (Apparently, this is where some techs have said, "You mean you were

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Tracy Hooten has posted a nice review of her first impressions of the Gateway tablet, including photos. Shame on me for not putting the link here sooner. I'll be posting the next installment in my review soon.

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I don't know why the "OOBE" acronym comes to mind, but the "out of box experience" was pretty darn good. There isn't much in the box: (By the way, it's a pretty nice box, and one that I might expect to see some people carrying onto their international flights to take home to somewhere you can't get a Gateway....) There's the PC, battery, and power cable and brick. There is the Gateway-branded 3M

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I don't think anyone is actually reading this, but in case you are... The CX2618 that I own is on sale this week at Best Buy (and bestbuy.com) for $1349 (after the $150 instant rebate). If you are thinking about it, now is a good time to buy.

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I'm not sure what originally piqued my interest in getting a tablet. Could be, I just figured that if I'm going to get a new notebook, it might as well be a tablet. But we had a guest presentation at my university by two people from another university who were using tablets in the classroom. One application was using them to replace the digital whiteboards that are becoming so common. You can

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So, it was December 2005 when I was getting fed up with my old laptop. It is a Compaq Presario 1800T, with a 700MHz processor, 14" XGA display, and it originally came with Windows ME (ugh.) I guess that means that I got it in about the year 2000, so it was 5 or 6 years old. I had upgraded it to Windows XP years ago, maxed out the memory (at a Lilliputian 320 megabytes), and even changed out the

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Well, I haven't been a very prolific writer at my other blog, Michael's Musings, but I am motivated to give it another try. I have had my new Tablet PC for a little over a month now, and I'm just figuring out what I can do with it. I am a chemistry professor at a small, public liberal arts college ("university"), so my posts will come from that perspective. I'll start from T minus two weeks or so

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