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| Thread ID: 116762 | 2011-03-19 03:31:00 | Anyone successfully replaced a pen/pad with a electronic device? | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 1187412 | 2011-03-19 03:31:00 | I am juts curious to know. This could be a work meeting or a lecture ..... As a part time student, there are a few people using laptops incl at the tutorials. I have a tablet laptop that I bought used but I never use the tablet feature, I should of bought a normal laptop as the tablet feature does weight a bit more. But nor have I used a keyboard in a class. I just find them not as flexible. You could write notes in and then draw a table or a diagram without fussing with tab stops or inserting tables or circles or arrows. Even if I did use the tablet function I doubt the laptop can tell my handwriting or if I could read my own writing as it's not as fine as a pen (like the pressure points of overlapping ink). |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1187413 | 2011-03-19 07:51:00 | I'm mostly using my netbook in lectures :D I'm still writing out notes for maths though, equations can be done in OneNote but they take a while to create. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1187414 | 2011-03-19 08:51:00 | I find a piece of paper to be pretty damn good... Zero boot time, no battery to run out, won't break if you drop it, roll it up, or throw it around, much less likely to get stolen and it can't crash and lose all your unsaved work. Also it's at average probably 1000 times cheaper. Tablet PCs might be nice, never tried one to be honest, but paper still has a lot of advantages which makes it my choice... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1187415 | 2011-03-19 10:03:00 | I have a used tablet laptop. Don't use the tablet feature until just today I tried it out :p I find a paper/pen is the most flexible option. Esp, if you gonna flip between keyboard mode and pen mode continously. They however work pretty good with sales reps or just ordinary Joe going to a meeting. You could open up a spreadsheet or graph and make notes on it .. or on the actual 50pg docx. You could change color of the words, use a highlighter as you do with office stationery. Maybe not the administrator taking minutes (or a student). For me if you type it, it's too restricted with tables, eqn's, graphs, diagrams so you end up using a pen/paper as well. The stylus pen might be ok but then again it's the same as using a pen/paper :D When the lecturer provide PPT notes to be downloaded - you could put in a view with plenty of space to write notes. I don't use handwriting recognition, doesn't work unless I have my neatest handwriting. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1187416 | 2011-03-19 11:42:00 | They certainly would have some useful features but the downsides and extra hassle compared with paper doesn't excite me too much. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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