From: William Adams <will.adams@frycomm.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: slightly OT: tablets
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:09:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9A582107-D81E-46C1-9601-D212340132C4@frycomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1FAFF721-2D6C-4F56-9B0F-A53D8D9B1EE6@uni-bonn.de>
On Jul 19, 2010, at 1:51 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> this is slightly OT, but maybe someone here has a helpful suggestion: since the announcement of Apple's iPad, tablets have become the rage. I am somewhat underwhelmed by this type of computer, but I see one area where it might be interesting to have one of those babies, and that's presentations. What I'm dreaming about: a tablet that would be able to show my manuscript (of course, a pdf produced with ConTeXt) on it's own screen and drive a presentation (again, pdf) on an external screen/digital projector. That way, I would need only one technical device, no paper etc. for my presentations. I even called Apple, but they said there is no app yet for doing this on an iPad. Do any of you have any insights: is there anything on the market yet that would make this possible? Is it at all feasib
le? Does it sound like a reasonable idea?
I wrote up my TUG 2003 presentation on a Fujitsu pen computer (unfortunately Fujitsu has discontinued their slate lineup).
Available systems include:
http://www.axiotron.com/index.php?id=modbook
and
http://www.motioncomputing.com/
Tradeoffs in comparison to an iPad are cost (higher) and battery life (lower) --- I get quite good battery life on my Fujitsu Stylistic ST4121 using a pair of extended cell batteries (unfortunately, it's a couple of years old and the bridge battery which should allow hot-swapping when suspended no longer functions). A notable advantage is my 4121 has a transflective, indoor/outdoor viewable display, so works quite well as mapreader when travelling.
I have a full TeX suite on it (w32tex since I'm running on a 4GB SSD), as well as traditional graphic design programs like FreeHand and FontLab. Handwriting recognition works well and allows me to not carry the added weight of a keyboard. Using a stylus works well for me and is very expressive (I'll often make .pdfs enabled for commenting on my Mac at work, then mark them up on my Tablet PC).
William
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-19 17:51 Thomas A. Schmitz
2010-07-19 18:14 ` luigi scarso
2010-07-19 19:00 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2010-07-19 19:20 ` luigi scarso
2010-07-19 18:34 ` Matthias Weber
2010-07-19 18:59 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2010-07-20 6:51 ` Otared Kavian
2010-07-20 7:18 ` Hans Hagen
2010-07-20 20:59 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2010-07-20 21:11 ` Hans Hagen
2010-07-20 21:31 ` luigi scarso
2010-07-20 14:09 ` William Adams [this message]
2010-07-20 14:55 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2010-07-20 15:20 ` William Adams
2010-07-21 23:18 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2010-07-22 11:45 ` William Adams
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