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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WingOver" data-source="post: 1955424" data-attributes="member: 13911">I bought one in December.  I absolutely love it.  I have a Fujitsu T4010D convertible.  <a href="http://webshop.fujitsupc.com/fpc/Ecommerce/buildseriesbean.do?series=T4D&ptype=TB" target="_blank">http://webshop.fujitsupc.com/fpc/Ecommerce/buildseriesbean.do?series=T4D&ptype=TB</a>I picked this after a lot of research.  In a nutshell, I went with it because it's light, has a wide-angle viewable screen, a modular DVD drive bay, and its a convertible.  Unfortunately (for me at least  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  ) Fujitsu will be updating this model to 1400x1050 res, fingerprint reader, and an outdoor display in 1st quarter of '05.  My biggest complaint is the 1024x768 res.  I feel this makes my handwriting a little fatter than I want it to be.  It has a 12.1" screen so it's like writing on an 8x11 sheet.  But on real paper I tend to draw smaller lines.  1400x1050 res would probably be ideal for me.The nearest competitor today is the Toshiba M200 with its 1400x1050 res, but it doesn't have a wide-angle display.  Once you turn it to portrait mode, it washes out when viewed from the side.  I can tell you that the Fujitsu looks bright and crisp from all angles, and that was the deal maker for me.At the gaming table, the 12.1" screen is the perfect size for portability and viewing PDFs (in portrait mode of course!)  You have to set the PDF viewer to Full Screen mode to have a full page fit on the screen comfortably.The handwriting recognition is supposed to be really good compared to the previous version of XP.  However I sometimes get frustrated when it fails to read what I consider an obvious word.  The Text Input Panel is invoked for older apps (like Notepad).  Basically you hover your pen over notepad's text box and you see this little icon pop up.  Select it and it loads an overlay that accepts your handwriting.  Just write naturally and it interprets your handwriting into text in a status bar underneath.  I believe it also uses intelligent grammar rules when it can't read your handwriting, in effect making the best guess for a word in context of the words around it.  When youre done select ok and it copies the text to the app underneath.Overall I feel the recognition is very good, but not close to perfect.You'll find that handwriting is going to slow you down when doing very common tasks.  For example, writing a URL is a lot slower than typing it in.  Renaming files, directories, etc will be cumbersome.  I find myself flipping the keyboard out whenever I have to do a lot of typing.I think the trick is to basically get used to writing everything.  MSN Messenger will send your handwriting which is very cool.  OneNote is an awesome app.  I've doodled and written lots of campaign notes with it.  If I type something, I can cut and paste it into the notes.Whew.. ok, enough for now.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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