Al, I think what sbtablet was saying in the comment was that it would make for a nice Tablet PC. It’s not a tablet, it’s a notebook and has neither touch nor an active digitizer.

As far as avoiding touch-only tablets, there’s definitely some personal preference here plus other factors like screen-size. On a standard-sized tablet, say 12.1-inches, I personally would prefer an active digitizer or a combo of touch and active. On a smaller device, I can make do with touch only, i.e.: my Samsung Q1P. Of course the exception to this school of thought is the Fujitsu P1610/P1620, which is touch only but has outstanding palm rejection. Bear in mind that people have different writing styles which also play into this. Even if you have a Tablet PC with both touch and active, if you rest your palm first and then lay down the pen, you’ll cause vectoring.

I wish our loyal leaders would respond to the “it’s not an active digitizer” comment. I once spotted a great deal on a tablet, and wrote in, but our Supreme Leader told me to avoid it like the plague because it did not have an active digitizer. Could we please revisit this question, perhaps in a separate post? THANKS.

I’m really looking forward to this. I am a very big fan of the P7230.

All it needs is an active digitizer!

My bad on the USB ports. I need to clean my glasses; fixed and thanks!

Thanks for the shoutout, Kevin. A quick clarification: there are three USB ports on the laptop and four on the port replicator.