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After years of using Thinkpads of various types myself, for my son's college work I got him an HP 2710p convertible tablet, and it has worked very well for him
by thrill 19y ago
After years of using Thinkpads of various types myself, for my son's college work I got him an HP 2710p convertible tablet, and it has worked very well for him (I didn't like the Thinkpad tablet at all) - I'm thinking of getting a second HP tablet for myself to run Ubuntu on it (I use that exclusively these days on half a dozen different servers and notebooks around here (including my still going strong old A20P), after using several other distros over the last decade). We had gotten him a Motion Computing tablet, but were quite disappointed, and not that surprised nor unhappy when it broke a few days after the warranty expired. Anyway, the HP tablet is fairly nice and might be a third option for you.
- neilc 19y agoHave you or your son used the HP tablet with Linux? A tablet seems nice, but not nice enough to justify using XP or Vista...
- thrill 19y agoNot yet. Even with the slowness of Vista the (convertible) tablet is an awfully handy device frequently enough to be worth the premium. When he returns this summer we're going to install Ubuntu and, if needed, setup XP (or maybe Vista) in Virtualbox (which works beautifully with XP for my single need of checking web development renderings with IE - Virtualbox is untested by me with Vista). There are Onenote-like programs for Linux these day, but I haven't tried them.