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HungLikeJesus · 05-10-2007, 05:06 PM

Rexmons,
Thanks. I do have questions, but I don't quite know what they all are. In other words, I want one of these convertible computers, but I don't know exactly how I would use it. I have (paper) notebooks full of hand-written notes and it's very difficult to look for tasks or to otherwise organize the notes, so I was thinking that if I had a tablet PC I could use that when I'm taking notes (for example, during phone calls or when at meetings), which would then be searchable. But I have a 24" Gateway LCD monitor on my desktop, and I don't know if I could plug that in to a tablet PC and get full resolution. So then I'd have two computers at work, and would have to transfer files between them. So there are those functional questions.

There are also questions about reliability. When I asked one of the salesmen at BestBuy why they did not carry the convertibles in the store anymore, he said that a lot of customers had problems with the screen or the digitizer and there were a lot of returns. He felt that the professional level ($2000+) were more reliable than were the home level (~$1,000) machines.

Are the Toughbooks reliable? Are there common problems?

05-10-2007, 05:06 PM	#3
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	Rexmons, Thanks. I do have questions, but I don't quite know what they all are. In other words, I want one of these convertible computers, but I don't know exactly how I would use it. I have (paper) notebooks full of hand-written notes and it's very difficult to look for tasks or to otherwise organize the notes, so I was thinking that if I had a tablet PC I could use that when I'm taking notes (for example, during phone calls or when at meetings), which would then be searchable. But I have a 24" Gateway LCD monitor on my desktop, and I don't know if I could plug that in to a tablet PC and get full resolution. So then I'd have two computers at work, and would have to transfer files between them. So there are those functional questions. There are also questions about reliability. When I asked one of the salesmen at BestBuy why they did not carry the convertibles in the store anymore, he said that a lot of customers had problems with the screen or the digitizer and there were a lot of returns. He felt that the professional level ($2000+) were more reliable than were the home level (~$1,000) machines. Are the Toughbooks reliable? Are there common problems? __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.