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From: Vizo Allman <vizoster@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone?
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:16:36
Message-Id: c0b622670902201116h7a670fcdv13f31529f9d80deb@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone? by Willie Wong
1 I am running a lenovo x-61 table for my everyday machine and it works pretty
2 well for me. I use Xournal to draw pics and take quick handwritten notes.
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6 On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.edu> wrote:
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8 > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:13:11AM -0330, Penguin Lover Roger Mason
9 > squawked:
10 > > Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU> writes:
11 > >
12 > > > Mainly what I am looking for is some sort of
13 > > > pen-mouse/tablet/touchscreen interface that makes drawing diagrams
14 > > > simpler (compared to a touchpad or the little dit that sits between
15 > > > the g,h, and b keys on a laptop). So if anyone knows of a laptop
16 > > > with this kind of built-in interface, it will also be good.
17 > > >
18 > >
19 > > Have you thought of attaching a drawing tablet to your existing laptop?
20 > >
21 > > I have a wacom tablet that works pretty well. I think there is an
22 > > article on the wiki about installation.
23 > >
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25 > Yes. I have thought about it. But if, for example, I sit in the
26 > economy class cabin on an airplane, a laptop + a wacom tablet hardly
27 > fits in the space in front of me.
28 >
29 > Ditto for a lot of conference/lecture halls.
30 >
31 > I am still not ruling out the possibility, but I want to first see
32 > what you all have to say about TabletPCs.
33 >
34 > W
35 > --
36 > Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive.
37 > Sortir en Pantoufles: up 805 days, 15:30
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43 "Nor aught availed him now
44 To have build in Heaven high towers Nor did he scape
45 By all his engines
46 But was headlong sent with his industrious crew
47 To build in Hell
48 "Milton, "Paradise Lost"

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Re: [gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone? Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>