Tablets, Revisited

A week ago I finally caved in and got myself a Lenovo X60 Tablet PC. ($989 new on eBay.) One week-long retreat later I got it in my mailbox upon my return last night; I’ve been playing with it since then. Did I say play? I meant to say “exploring it with an intent to create innovative pedagogy for use in the mathematics classroom”.

Note: I’m actually typing this on my MacBook because it’s hard to write long things using a tablet; I am also too lazy to revert it to laptop mode from tablet mode. Also, I really like OS X much better than Windows XP (which is still better than Windows Vista, I suppose) for things that I don’t need a tablet for. Read on for some initial impressions and reasons why I bought one of these things.

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Posted on : May 10 2008
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