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I'm purchasing an IBM Thinkpad X61. I've used tablets in the past, with the
first versions of XP Tablet, but its been about 2 years since I've been in
the tablet-scene. What are the pros/cons of Vista vs. XP Tablet 2005 for a
tablet PC?
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The X61 does a great job with Windows Vista. The improved handwriting and
the ability to train it are only a couple of the main reasons to switch to
Windows Vista. You can find many of the Windows Vista Tablet changes here -
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/tabletPC.mspx
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Terri Stratton
Microsoft Featured Community
http://thetabletpc.net
Forums - http://forums.mobilepcworld.net
Microsoft Windows MVP- Tablet PC
"MrDeac2U" <MrDeac2U[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6EFFC7F5-5901-40B9-A483-91D7AD1FC285[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text] > I'm purchasing an IBM Thinkpad X61. I've used tablets in the past, with
> the
> first versions of XP Tablet, but its been about 2 years since I've been in
> the tablet-scene. What are the pros/cons of Vista vs. XP Tablet 2005 for
> a
> tablet PC?
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Vista has the best handwriting recognition available at this moment. the
only really capable of be trained and learn from your handwriting.
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Frank J. Garcia - Ctitanic
Tablet PC/UMPC MVP
www.ultramobilelpc-tips.com
www.todoumpc.com
"MrDeac2U" <MrDeac2U[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6EFFC7F5-5901-40B9-A483-91D7AD1FC285[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text] > I'm purchasing an IBM Thinkpad X61. I've used tablets in the past, with
> the
> first versions of XP Tablet, but its been about 2 years since I've been in
> the tablet-scene. What are the pros/cons of Vista vs. XP Tablet 2005 for
> a
> tablet PC?
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"MrDeac2U" <MrDeac2U[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6EFFC7F5-5901-40B9-A483-91D7AD1FC285[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text] > I'm purchasing an IBM Thinkpad X61. I've used tablets in the past, with
> the
> first versions of XP Tablet, but its been about 2 years since I've been in
> the tablet-scene. What are the pros/cons of Vista vs. XP Tablet 2005 for
> a
> tablet PC?
Windows Vista is far better, handwriting recognition is a huge improvement
over Tablet 2005 (it actually learns your style), plus there's pen flicks,
which enables you too quickly scroll around, or copy and paste and things
like that. Then there's the mobility center where you can quickly get to
things like screen brightness, rotation etc.
Cons, Windows Vista uses more memory, but as long as the machine has say 1GB
of RAM it won't be that much of a problem.
--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/
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Vista does use more memory but that's not as bad as it sounds. It actually
*uses* more memory. As in it's better than free memory just sitting there.
:) Vista's SuperFetch and ReadyBoost are designed to gobble up as much
memory as they can to speed up loading and running applications. There's
currently some issues with the implementation but just using more memory
alone isn't always a con. Microsoft .NET applications claim a bunch of
memory up front but as a result they have faster allocations than C++
programs.
Where Vista does have a disadvantage tho is disk access. Lots of it. Both
because of the above-mentioned flaws in Superfetch/ReadyBoost and the
indexing. As a result battery life is typically lower on Vista but your
mileage may vary. For most people it's not enough to outweigh the huge
tablet improvements.
--
Josh Einstein (Tablet PC MVP)
Einstein Technologies
Tablet Enhancements for Outlook - Try it free: www.tabletoutlook.com
"Paul Smith" <Paul[ at ]nospam.windowsresource.net> wrote in message
news:CABC6AE3-B8A7-4FF1-B252-8D9C55917355[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text] > "MrDeac2U" <MrDeac2U[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:6EFFC7F5-5901-40B9-A483-91D7AD1FC285[ at ]microsoft.com... >> I'm purchasing an IBM Thinkpad X61. I've used tablets in the past, with >> the >> first versions of XP Tablet, but its been about 2 years since I've been >> in >> the tablet-scene. What are the pros/cons of Vista vs. XP Tablet 2005 for >> a >> tablet PC? > > Windows Vista is far better, handwriting recognition is a huge improvement > over Tablet 2005 (it actually learns your style), plus there's pen flicks, > which enables you too quickly scroll around, or copy and paste and things > like that. Then there's the mobility center where you can quickly get to > things like screen brightness, rotation etc. > > Cons, Windows Vista uses more memory, but as long as the machine has say > 1GB of RAM it won't be that much of a problem. > > -- > Paul Smith, > Yeovil, UK. > Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User. > http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/> http://www.windowsresource.net/> > *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail* > >
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"Josh Einstein" <josh[ at ]einsteintech.net> wrote in message
news:1C5CBFFB-8E0A-4382-80CA-25965059C22E[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text] > Vista does use more memory but that's not as bad as it sounds. It actually
> *uses* more memory. As in it's better than free memory just sitting there.
> :) Vista's SuperFetch and ReadyBoost are designed to gobble up as much
> memory as they can to speed up loading and running applications. There's
> currently some issues with the implementation but just using more memory
> alone isn't always a con. Microsoft .NET applications claim a bunch of
> memory up front but as a result they have faster allocations than C++
> programs.
>
> Where Vista does have a disadvantage tho is disk access. Lots of it. Both
> because of the above-mentioned flaws in Superfetch/ReadyBoost and the
> indexing. As a result battery life is typically lower on Vista but your
> mileage may vary. For most people it's not enough to outweigh the huge
> tablet improvements.
>
> --
> Josh Einstein (Tablet PC MVP)
> Einstein Technologies
> Tablet Enhancements for Outlook - Try it free: www.tabletoutlook.com
Overall, how much bigger a hit does Vista put on a tablet's resources? (with
all the eye candy turned off) I've got a two year old Electravaya Scribbler
which I love but I couldn't handle it being slowed down very much. I've got
750mb of Ram.
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"joebuck" <thepenitentone[ at ]hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:53382C3B-8184-46A3-82F2-E8A893EBFA0A[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text] > Overall, how much bigger a hit does Vista put on a tablet's resources?
> (with all the eye candy turned off) I've got a two year old Electravaya
> Scribbler which I love but I couldn't handle it being slowed down very
> much. I've got 750mb of Ram.
I've got a Toshiba M200 with Vista on, which Toshiba don't support for
Windows Vista, nor do nVidia support the graphics card. That's with 1GB of
RAM.
Most of the time it flies along like it did with Windows XP. But sometimes,
especially when resuming from hibernate it can get bogged down for 2 or 3
minutes with heavy disk access. That's probably mostly due to SuperFetch,
which you could disable, but most of the time I resume from sleep, so its
not a problem.
--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/
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I have the same problem, what is SuperFetch and how to disable it? Did
it exist on WinXP 2005?
[Quoted Text] >Most of the time it flies along like it did with Windows XP. But sometimes,
>especially when resuming from hibernate it can get bogged down for 2 or 3
>minutes with heavy disk access. That's probably mostly due to SuperFetch,
>which you could disable, but most of the time I resume from sleep, so its
>not a problem.
Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!
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