Today I went laptop shopping fo a laptop that I could use for notes and stuff and one that three years later can follow me into college. I chose the Avaratec C3500 Series Tablet PC.

Here are the specs:
-Tablet PC (like I said above)
-DVD-ROM/CD-RW optical drive
-5.5 pounds
-Win XP Tablet PC edition 2005 (box says 2002)
-512 MB RAM
-802.11g Wireless; 10/100 Mbps built-in Eithernet
-60 gig hard drive
-AMD Athlon XP-M 2200+

It has more power than my PC (I don't have much RAM on this machine... I can't seem to run Dreamweaver and AOL at the same time or Photoshop and AOL or everything runs SLOW!) and it is a nice portable computer. It is lacking some features, but it is a cool laptop or Tablet PC.

Also, when I pulled it out of the box, it came in this really cool looking protector. Not a laptop case, but it protects it and looks cool. I remember when Tablet PC's first came out and cost over $2,000. This one was, I think, $1,200 with $100 mail in rebate.

Main reason why I got this was for an independant study program I am taking next school year and I am hopeing that I will be allowed to use my own laptop insead of one of the school's off brand ones. It would be nice so then I don't have to worry about breaking the school's and I can use mine for college too. For notes, I just open Microsft Journal and jot some stuff down in my own handwritting! I have played around with a demo Tablet once, but it was smaller... I just wish mine was. But it is still a sweet laptop!

Nice! tablet pc though? isn't that those small hand held ones?

I'd rather w8 to buy any new type of computer for now...

Because they will be coming out with a MUCH faster technology in a few years..Something nano.

Still though...I gotta say that is a good price

my laptop is about 2 years old now. amd 2500+ with an ati radeon 9600 with 64mb dedicated, 512mb ram, 60gig and a dvd rewriter. paid 1400 back then. still does the job fabulously
but those tablet things are cool.
spacewast, it's not the same as a handheld. it's as big as a laptop, but you can turn the screen so it seems as you're holding nothing but a screen. and then you can write on them with a special pen, touch screen and stuff like that. nice thingies!