Inking in Windows 7 Rocks!
Switching between ink and touch is seamless and useful. I heart this Tablet PC.
* Written on a Lenovo x200 TabletPC with multitouch.
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That’s neat. But for $1500+ I think I’ll stay with my HP mini netbook (XP) and updated Toshiba M205 running Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) .
Since I didnt get a reply when I tweeted this exact Q a few days ago I’ll ask here: what app is that?
That is OneNote which I installed for inking.
Downloaded the onenote trial and this program is fricking awesome! Seriousely ive never known how much ive needed exactly this thing for school and content for the various sites i write for. I have a rather elaborate system set up now:
I have onenote on my netbook which is with me everywhere. When I save something to the notebook on there, microsoft synctoy will mirror it to both the SD card in the computer and my dropbox folder. The dropbox folder on my home computer will then get the notebook, and that folder is set to be monitored and auto-backed up to Carbonite (online backup service). It’s also part of what the install of synctoy on that computer will mirror to a 16GB flash drive that is always plugged in.
Over the top when it comes to backups? Yeah but im paranoid and theres no way in hell imm ever becoming one of those people who just lost a very important file.
I ordered one of these as they have 15% off coupon ( USPXSERIES )
that expires today.
I’m not sure if i’m going to stick with it though. One thing, is that apparently Lenovo only has a return policy only for unopened items and even then they warn there might be %15 restocking fee (oh, and you pay shipping)
whatever.
But there’s always Ebay right? : (
(note: I never buy anything without a resale plan in place as if I didn’t i would be more broke then I am now- which is pretty broke)…i’m rambling….sorry : )
How bright is the screen? How sharp? (I think I’m going to email this question to Warren Crocker, too.)
Every Tablet I’ve owned with an active digitizer has been brighter and clearer than the last, but never as bright as the Samsung Q1 with a resistive, nor as bright as laptops without the mesh of digitizing whatever that’s between the backlighting and my weary old eyeballs.
Is the screen touch responsive with the stylus in the same hand? If so, how does it avoid vectoring?
This looks like the most exciting Tablet PC I’ve seen in a while, and likely to plunk down yet-to-be-earned dough on one.
The screen looks fine, although not as vivid as non-Tablets. The digitizer layers always impace the brightness. Lenovo has an outdoor screen available, but without touch.
I wonder if the two finger limit is a driver or a hardware issue (and I wonder what other kind of issues Wacom is having with this).
As I recall mulitouch on the Macbooks was initially two finger and then they worked the drivers to bring it to four. (or something like that)
Hardware, the x200 has a WACOM digitizer that only handles 2 fingers, according to Lenovo.
James if you get a chance can you do a video of the X200 with Win 7 inking?
I intend to do a video soon.
Its good to see you happily inking again James.
Am I the only person who prefers inking in XP as opposed to Win 7? I’m finding the TIP to be absolutely awful. Here’s an example: I write a word and it comes out fine. I then write another word and at first it also looks fine but then Windows decides to join the words together and makes a completely different word! It happens so often that I can’t write naturally but have to keep looking back all the time and correcting, something else which seems to be a lot more unintuative than it was previously. I started to write this with the TIP but had to give up and resort to the keyboard.
No, I’ve got the words run together problem too on Windows 7, but not on Vista. Seems to get worse the more you write and clear up temporarily after a restart.
John
In both XP and Vista I’ve had the problem of the TIP apparently correctly identifying my handwriting, and then modifying it to something incorrect as I continue to write. I was hoping that Windows 7 would put an end to that.
Hmmm. It didn’t occur to me that having the handwriting disappear as you write would be a problem, but I could see how that could be. There must be ways to deal with the interpretation if you’re writing more than a few words. I see I’ll have to try this out before upgrading.
I’m not bothered by having it change the interpretation because more often it corrects itself when it sees the next word, at least in my experience, than misinterprets it. I get much more accuracy in Vista than XP Tablet. I’d read W7 is more accurate still.
In the TIP, that is. James’ post is obviously not about that here.