Comments on: Why Tablet PCs are Useless http://gdovin.net/why-tablet-pcs-are-useless?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-tablet-pcs-are-useless Covering Apple, Video Production, Cloud Computing and more! Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:59:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: ThePlaz http://gdovin.net/why-tablet-pcs-are-useless/comment-page-1#comment-56 ThePlaz Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:25:40 +0000 http://gdovin.net/?p=87#comment-56 I agree that writing when you want to convert to text is slower than typing. However for math, like you mentioned I could not type it. There are charts and formulas that take 2-5 minute to do on a regular computer. I just keep my handwriting as handwriting for Math class. In other classes I just type. A convertible laptop can also be a regular laptop. I would also have to disagree about the screen repairs happening to "majority of laptops at one point". I don't think that's true for tablets or regular laptops. See my article about using Tablets in school: http://theplaz.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Quest_for_the_Perfect_Notetaking_Medium I agree that writing when you want to convert to text is slower than typing. However for math, like you mentioned I could not type it. There are charts and formulas that take 2-5 minute to do on a regular computer. I just keep my handwriting as handwriting for Math class. In other classes I just type. A convertible laptop can also be a regular laptop.

I would also have to disagree about the screen repairs happening to “majority of laptops at one point”. I don’t think that’s true for tablets or regular laptops.

See my article about using Tablets in school: http://theplaz.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Quest_for_the_Perfect_Notetaking_Medium

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