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» Product Guide ments will be made all the easier. While you can slide a laptop over to one or two other people during meetings, you can share a tablet with others as if it were a sheet of papers. If you are constantly on the run, you’ll want a tablet that has as few moving parts as possible. And, of course, lighten your load. A slate tablet, in particular, can be as light as a paper notebook with all the convenience of a mobile computing device. 3 4 Do you need light equipment? And, if that’s not enough, you can also connect a digital projector to your tablet to share your writing with a larger audience without fussing with font sizes or changing your computer screen resolution. The 12- or 14-inch screen is small enough to carry around, but enjoys a higher resolution. Tablet—Unique Software A peek at products designed to take advantage of the tablet PC format. Although you can run the same software on a tablet PC as a regular PC, the tablet comes with additional software that may enhance the education experience of students, teachers, and administrators. Applications include the following: Does your school or district already have a vendor relationship with clear support? Often schools have existing relationships with vendors that have a tablet PC product. You may want to consider this since ordering mass quantities of tablets may lower their cost to an acceptable level. Miguel Guhlin is a blogger for techLEARNING.com. You can reach him at mguhlin@gmail.com. 5 How big a screen do you need? Ink Flash Cards. An application designed to assist memorization by using a flash card approach, enabling users to handwrite their own flash cards and display them back in a slide show. Equation Writer. A recognition tool specializing in converting handwritten mathematical equations to a computer-generated image for pasting into other documents. A tablet PC provides you with an inexhaustible supply of electronic paper that you can write on as large as you need to, confident that the handwriting recognition technology will convert it to regular text. GoBinder Lite. An organization and note-taking application developed by Agilix Labs. Hexic Deluxe. A tablet PC game. A sampling of popular tablet computers. Company/URL Acer www.acer.com/us Model Acer TravelMate C100 Stylistic ST5111 Type Convertible Processor Intel Pentium III Intel Core 2 Duo OS Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Windows Vista or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Windows Vista or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Windows Vista Screen Size 10.4-inch Digitizer/ Pens EMR pen and stylus enabled Weight 3.2 lb List Price $1,399 and up $2,649 and up Fujitsu www.fujitsupc.com Slate 10.4-inch Stylus enabled 3.4 lb Motion Computing www .motioncomputing.com LE1700 Slate Intel Core 2 Duo Intel Core 2 Duo Intel Core Duo Intel Core 2 Duo AMD Turion 12.1-inch Stylus enabled 3.3 lb $1,699 and up $1,536.75 and up $2,599 and up $1,499.99 and up $949.99 and up $2,295 and up Lenovo www.lenovo.com/us/en X60 Convertible 12.1-inch Stylus enabled 3.76 lb Toshiba www.toshiba.com/tai Portégé R400 Convertible Windows Vista 12.1-inch Stylus enabled 3.79 lb Gateway www.gateway.com C-120X Pavilion tx1000z Sahara Slate PC i440D Convertible Windows Vista 12.1-inch Stylus enabled 4.8 lb HP www.hp.com Convertible Windows Vista Windows Vista or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 12.1-inch Stylus enabled 4.23 lb TabletKiosk tabletkiosk.com Slate Intel Core 2 Duo 12.1-inch Stylus enabled 3.3 lb 8 | www.techlearning.com http://www.techlearning.com http://www.acer.com/us http://www.fujitsupc.com http://www.motioncomputing.com http://www.lenovo.com/us/en http://www.toshiba.com/tai http://www.gateway.com http://www.hp.com http://tabletkiosk.com http://www.techlearning.com

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