Productivity guru, technologist and good friend Eric Mack sat down with productivity consultant Kelly Forrister and had a 50+ minute discussion about the Lenovo ThinkPad x61 Tablet PC. He’s released this discussion as a podcast and I highly recommend it if you are curious about the x61. Kelly didn’t know much about Tablet PCs so it’s also a good discussion for Tablet PC newbies as Eric walks Kelly through the advantages the x61 brings to his work. Here’s just a few of the topics the two cover:
- Discussion of screen sizes
- What makes up the Tablet PC Experience
- Hardware: laptop mode
- X61 Hardware Overview
- Pen, fingerprint reader, buttons, navigation
- Kelly and I belong to the same club
- How Kelly would use a Tablet PC
- People love flashing lights and gauges on computers
- Kelly takes the X61 for a spin
- Vista is a great Tablet OS
- Unfortunately, many of my apps (e.g. Palm desktop) won’t work with it.
- "You had me at the pen, Eric"
- Windows Journal – notepad on steroids
- MindManager 7 and the ribbon UI
- Now, look at MindManager in Pen Mode!
- Tables allow the brain to move fluidly between linear thought and creative thought
- The value of having low-tech capture tools around you for creative capture
- OneNote Launch button for quick capture (27:00)
- Lotus Notes on the X61 tablet PC – demo of a non-ink enabled app (31:00)
- Gentle prompt to IBM, calling for ink support in Notes
- Don’t look at my in-box; not healthy.
- Oh my, Kelly walked out of the house without a capture tool. (34:00)
- Flicks in Vista for most common keyboard tasks in non-ink enabled apps
- How I use the Tablet: Laptop vs slate mode
- How Kelly might use the Tablet PC
- Scanning books into the Tablet – paperless challenge
- PDF annotator for document review & markup
- You can create your own handwriting font
- Tour of Tablet Apps
- Dragon Naturally Speaking with the Sony MX20 handheld voice recorder
- ArtRage – the ultimate art studio for Tablet PC
- Using the Tablet PC for presentations; annotate on your PPT slides
- Michael Sampson mind mapped his presentations in real-time w/Tablet PC
- ActiveWords Inkpad for the Tablet – gotta have it
- The X61 Tablet makes computing fun again
- Tablet PC as a digital capture tool
- Benefits of using a Tablet PC in meetings (50:00)
- Tablet PCs are more people friendly, more natural in meetings
- Use a Tablet PC and people pay more attention to you, really.
- Thank you, Lenovo, for allowing me to use the X61 Tablet PC. I can’t wait to see what’s next!
Whew! No wonder it’s a good, long discussion! :)
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