[gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone?

[gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone?

[Willie Wong]

Hi:

  Does anyone on the list have any experience with Tablet PCs? I know
  many of the Tablets have guides to installation on Gentoo-wiki. Does
  anyone have a personal story to share? Any suggestions of a good,
  sturdy, Tablet that I should consider to buy? 

  I primarily am looking for a device to help note-taking in class. I
  can touch-type in LaTeX quickly enough to catch up to most lecturers
  using blackboards, but using a conventional laptop there is almost
  no way for me to enter diagrams and simple illustrations. I won't
  need handwriting recognition that much: I can still do my notes in
  vim with LaTeX, and just have a macro that opens a small canvas for
  free-hand drawing and embeds the saved image automatically in the
  TeX file. 

  Mainly what I am looking for is some sort of
  pen-mouse/tablet/touchscreen interface that makes drawing diagrams
  simpler (compared to a touchpad or the little dit that sits between
  the g,h, and b keys on a laptop). So if anyone knows of a laptop
  with this kind of built-in interface, it will also be good. 

  I guess my question is: if I am looking to buy a tablet pc, and am
  intending to run gentoo on it, what specific things should I look
  out for (assume I know zilch. I'd rather have redundant information
  than missing information)? Are there any particular brands or models
  that are known to work extremely well?

Thanks, 

Willie
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[gentoo-user] Re: Tablet PC? Anyone?

[James]

Willie Wong <wwong <at> Princeton.EDU> writes:


>   Mainly what I am looking for is some sort of
>   pen-mouse/tablet/touchscreen interface that makes drawing diagrams
>   simpler (compared to a touchpad or the little dit that sits between
>   the g,h, and b keys on a laptop). So if anyone knows of a laptop
>   with this kind of built-in interface, it will also be good. 

Hello Willie,

May or Maynot be what you are looking for, but there is a really simple
easy/quick drawing tool, call 'dia' in portage. (app-office/dia).

Alternatively, if you do not find what you want, you may consider developing
a quick writing system to go with this ARM(Cortex) based, linux friendly
notebook. Who knows you may even land a  really cool, high paying job,
if you replace ubuntu with gentoo, on this bad boy.....
Let me know if you have problems getting one, were a FreeScale
development partner....

Furthermore, Gentoo has some really talented folks in the embedded
group, and ARM is very popular therein.


http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8595694202.html

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3522920675.html

It looks wide open on connectivity possibilities!




hth,

James

Re: [gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone?

[Roger Mason]

Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU> writes:

>   Mainly what I am looking for is some sort of
>   pen-mouse/tablet/touchscreen interface that makes drawing diagrams
>   simpler (compared to a touchpad or the little dit that sits between
>   the g,h, and b keys on a laptop). So if anyone knows of a laptop
>   with this kind of built-in interface, it will also be good. 
>

Have you thought of attaching a drawing tablet to your existing laptop?

I have a wacom tablet that works pretty well.  I think there is an
article on the wiki about installation.

Cheers,
Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone?

[Willie Wong]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:13:11AM -0330, Penguin Lover Roger Mason squawked:
> Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU> writes:
> 
> >   Mainly what I am looking for is some sort of
> >   pen-mouse/tablet/touchscreen interface that makes drawing diagrams
> >   simpler (compared to a touchpad or the little dit that sits between
> >   the g,h, and b keys on a laptop). So if anyone knows of a laptop
> >   with this kind of built-in interface, it will also be good. 
> >
> 
> Have you thought of attaching a drawing tablet to your existing laptop?
> 
> I have a wacom tablet that works pretty well.  I think there is an
> article on the wiki about installation.
> 

Yes. I have thought about it. But if, for example, I sit in the
economy class cabin on an airplane, a laptop + a wacom tablet hardly
fits in the space in front of me. 

Ditto for a lot of conference/lecture halls. 

I am still not ruling out the possibility, but I want to first see
what you all have to say about TabletPCs. 

W
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Re: [gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone?

[Vizo Allman]

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I am running a lenovo x-61 table for my everyday machine and it works pretty
well for me. I use Xournal to draw pics and take quick handwritten notes.



On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Willie Wong <wwong@princeton.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:13:11AM -0330, Penguin Lover Roger Mason
> squawked:
> > Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU> writes:
> >
> > >   Mainly what I am looking for is some sort of
> > >   pen-mouse/tablet/touchscreen interface that makes drawing diagrams
> > >   simpler (compared to a touchpad or the little dit that sits between
> > >   the g,h, and b keys on a laptop). So if anyone knows of a laptop
> > >   with this kind of built-in interface, it will also be good.
> > >
> >
> > Have you thought of attaching a drawing tablet to your existing laptop?
> >
> > I have a wacom tablet that works pretty well.  I think there is an
> > article on the wiki about installation.
> >
>
> Yes. I have thought about it. But if, for example, I sit in the
> economy class cabin on an airplane, a laptop + a wacom tablet hardly
> fits in the space in front of me.
>
> Ditto for a lot of conference/lecture halls.
>
> I am still not ruling out the possibility, but I want to first see
> what you all have to say about TabletPCs.
>
> W
> --
> Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive.
> Sortir en Pantoufles: up 805 days, 15:30
>
>


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To have build in Heaven high towers    Nor did he scape
By all his engines
But was headlong sent with his industrious crew
To build in Hell
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Re: [gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone?

[Willie Wong]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 02:16:34PM -0500, Penguin Lover Vizo Allman squawked:
> I am running a lenovo x-61 table for my everyday machine and it works pretty
> well for me. I use Xournal to draw pics and take quick handwritten notes.
> 

Ooh, Xournal is wonderful. It it also useful for my current normal
laptop. I love its "PDF annotation" mode. 

The X61 looks nice. I'm having a bit of difficulty locating the video
card on their specs page (probably just me being stupid or something),
can you tell me what video it uses? The Intel Wifi looks good, and
lenovo's website is looking like it is having a sale right now (almost
half of the list price!)

When you say "Works pretty well", does it mean that "there's nothing
to complain about" or "except for this little itty bit of problem
[insert problem here]"?

Thanks for your response!

W
-- 
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