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Which one of those has a real digitizer and comes with a pen to take meeting notes on?

lucisferre 14y ago
While it isn't enough for me to want to use the Windows tablets, the lack of a proper pen/stylus tool for iPad really frustrates me. Having tried out writing on a Note/Note2 I'd really love to have an accurate writing tool for my iPad. I'd use it constantly.
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arrrg 14y ago
Who cares for that? That’s the exact same niche market Microsoft served during the last decade and failed to reach any kind of mass-appeal.
- MichaelGG 14y ago
  Correction. It's the same "niche" Microsoft wrote _some_ software for, and had their OEMs deliver overpriced, crappy devices. Dell's tablet was around $2200, and had the specs of a $700 laptop. And not to mention, outside of a few apps like OneNote, using Windows XP/Vista/7 in tablet mode is not a super pleasant experience.
  - arrrg 14y ago
    I don’t see digitizers and styluses having any kind of mass-appeal. I cannot imagine any kind of plausible scenario for that. This is not a feature you can sell (except to a niche). The Surface has to succeed or fail as a post-iPad tablet, not on tech specs no one cares about.
    - mynameisvlad 14y ago
      Drawing, and notetaking. Especially the latter. Having a digitizer and actual pen is far superior to capacitive devices for note-taking, since it more closely replicates actually taking notes.
forgotAgain 14y ago
If the battery doesn't last for a full day of meetings then the pen interface isn't a differentiator.
rayiner 14y ago
A note-taking device with under 4 hours of battery life is a joke.
- bcoates 14y ago
  Where is the four hours of battery life figure coming from? At least on windows 7, battery life is incredibly dependent on software configuration. Is four hours the default-settings movie-watching battery life or the power-conservation near-idle battery life? Note-taking should be closer to the latter.

While it isn't enough for me to want to use the Windows tablets, the lack of a proper pen/stylus tool for iPad really frustrates me. Having tried out writing on a Note/Note2 I'd really love to have an accurate writing tool for my iPad. I'd use it constantly.

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arrrg 14y ago

Who cares for that? That’s the exact same niche market Microsoft served during the last decade and failed to reach any kind of mass-appeal.

MichaelGG 14y ago
Correction. It's the same "niche" Microsoft wrote _some_ software for, and had their OEMs deliver overpriced, crappy devices. Dell's tablet was around $2200, and had the specs of a $700 laptop. And not to mention, outside of a few apps like OneNote, using Windows XP/Vista/7 in tablet mode is not a super pleasant experience.
- arrrg 14y ago
  I don’t see digitizers and styluses having any kind of mass-appeal. I cannot imagine any kind of plausible scenario for that. This is not a feature you can sell (except to a niche). The Surface has to succeed or fail as a post-iPad tablet, not on tech specs no one cares about.
  - mynameisvlad 14y ago
    Drawing, and notetaking. Especially the latter. Having a digitizer and actual pen is far superior to capacitive devices for note-taking, since it more closely replicates actually taking notes.

forgotAgain 14y ago

If the battery doesn't last for a full day of meetings then the pen interface isn't a differentiator.

rayiner 14y ago

A note-taking device with under 4 hours of battery life is a joke.

bcoates 14y ago
Where is the four hours of battery life figure coming from? At least on windows 7, battery life is incredibly dependent on software configuration. Is four hours the default-settings movie-watching battery life or the power-conservation near-idle battery life? Note-taking should be closer to the latter.