You know, I’ve been thinking about something for awhile, and I’m wondering if you could cover it in one of your entries while you’re testing.

I currently have a Lenovo X60 tablet, which has a (used to be) standard screen, not the (now more common) widescreen. The resolution is 1400×1050, so it’s very sharp, and I use it for school (with Office, OneNote, Visio, and Project), for storing teacher handouts and my textbooks (I had read someone’s blog about scanning in schoolbooks; I tried it and REALLY love having all those books available on my system and searchable with OneNote) and for reading Zinio magazines.

My question really centers around the textbooks and the magazines. Being that the Lenovo has a “squarish” screen, the textbooks and magazines basically fill up the entire screen in portrait mode, and it’s like I’m reading the real thing, size-wise. On the widescreens and with the lower resolution, I think the material would be much smaller and harder to read, plus have large top and bottom bars. True? Or would reading work better in landscape mode with two pages displayed at a time, like looking at a real-world book?

I still have my old TC1100 for bedtime reading and surfing, and the quality is still excellent. I’m most interested in the new HP for this reason, but hesitate because of the screen dimensions. Any insight as you use the widescreens compared to the standard screens would be most appreciated.

Thank you!

As for office docs, why don’t you use one of sync solutions such as dropbox or sugarsync? When I installed OS X on my 1000h, I used dropbox to sync and copy my documents and it worked flawlessly. Granted I have only 200MB to copy over, but it was done much faster than I expected, and best of all, it was done without my attention. I just kept working on other things and all my documents were copied over in the background. Also it’s an excellent solution for dual booting. No more headache about setting up sharing folder and copy across OS X and Windows. Just install dropbox on both, and all the documents are in sync with the latest changes. the documents are stored on the cloud as well, so you can access them from anywhere as long as there is an internet connection.