I have had my new Compaq Tablet PC for a little over a week now. I have an 802.11b network set up at home with 128-bit WEP and MAC address security.
I bring my Tablet to work with me every day. My company is worried about having any devices it has not fully configured hooked up to its network, so I am not able to take advantage of wireless Internet, or any Internet, at work. The best use for my Tablet is loading something on the device and bringing it with me to someone’s office to illustrate the code, the document, or the data structure I want to discuss. Instead of asking someone to pull up a document on their computer, I hand them the Tablet with the document already pulled up, and I start walking them through what I want to do.
Handwriting recognition is pretty good. I have read my Tablet stories so it may recognize my voice. I download free eBooks from Microsoft weekly.
I am often asked “Can you only take notes or can you do other things too?” I pull up Office 2003 and show people my cached Outlook mail, calendar, and task lists. I will record a meeting and encode it in WMA just for fun.
The Crusoe seems to be a bit slow, even with 512 MB of RAM. This is my first computer since my Commodore 64 which does not have an Intel processor.