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4.5 stars
"Currently Best Tablet I've Found"
Pros: Performance, Versatility, Battery Life
Cons: No Optical Drive, Imaging Difficulties
Summary: Mine's a 2 GHz duo, 1.5 Gb RAM, with BlueTooth. I've purchase 6 - 10 of these and been using one since Nov 2006. IMHO the current model is still the best available tablet (compared against Acer - no longer manufacturing tablets, Toshiba - heavy, very hot, low battery life, and the OS is cluttered with proprietary utilities of dubious value, Fujitsu - heavy, large, and expensive). Disappointed the latest review of the Fujitsu Lifebook didn't include a comparison especially since it included a Dell and they don't even offer a tablet. Don't know what kind of scale the reviewer that cited poor battery life used, I've gotten 5 hours with both WiFi and BlueTooth going, 14 hours with the extended battery and it will recharge both to full in under 2 hours. Sacrificed the optical drive because it seems to add too much weight and size to the tablets that have them built-in but don't really miss it since USB memory key are inexpensive and I didn't get it to watch DVDs on. Use it with Dragon NaturallySpeaking and BlueTooth for wireless speech recognition, very cool. I would also suggest Microsoft OneNote as madatory for any tablet to really take advantage of the tablet's note taking capabilities. Only problem was difficulty Imaging the Tablets for deployment in coporate environment, it was incompatible with ghost, drive image, and various Linux utilities we tried on our PXe server. Ended up having to use the Acronis product.We've been deploying them for around 9 months with no service issues. Very Happy
