17
May

What Is: Santa Rosa

While I didn’t quite keep my promise of ‘one what are a week’ I have a great one for you now.

Lots of notebooks have been released recently, the majority of them having refreshed specifications due to the new “Santa Rosa” specifications. If you want to know what it is, how it works and why [...]

15
May

Award for “Screencast of the Week”

Wow, this is too cool for me. Betsy Weber, Chief Evangelist, over at TechSmith informed me that my first true post here at the StudentTabletPC was chosen for this week’s “Screencast of the Week.”  Thanks Senorita Betsy.  Thanks Tracy for letting me on the team, so I could receive this award in the first place.  I already [...]

15
May

Math 3.0: It Compliments Your Handheld Graphing Calculator

A recent topic in the forums had me looking around for math specific software, and up popped Math 3.0 from Microsoft. If you’ve used Microsoft Student 2006, then you’ll be familiar with this program. The additions make Math 3.0 a very useful learning tool for high school math all the way up to early sophomore [...]

15
May

Looking for a Tablet? Lenovo’s 25% Off ’till Memorial Day

Thanks to a heads up from Kevin at jkOnTheRun, Lenovo’s offering an astounding 25% off the X60 Tablet plus free shipping and handling to the US (save Alaska and Hawaii…sorry guys).

At the low end, you can grab an Intel Core Duo 1.67GHz, 1GB RAM, 60GB SATA Hard Drive, 12.1″ XGA screen, Windows Vista Business, with [...]

15
May

A Tablet PC Substitute?

Check out this really cool tablet PC substitute pictured on the left (Adesso’s CyberPad).  It doubles as a notepad to write down your lecture notes, any notes for that matter, and can be plugged into a USB port on your laptop/desktop PC to serve as an inking surface.  I use Aipek’s HyperPen 1200U with an [...]

13
May

Happy Mother’s Day

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers of the world—at least one reads this blog (Alice). It would be difficult for a lot of us to be here without a mother. For some students, it may have been as difficult to own a tablet PC had it not been for a mother that coughed up [...]

10
May

Is GoBinder getting swept under the rug?

I was doing a bit of research surfing earlier (honestly :o)) and I ended up in a place I haven’t been for a while - the GoBinder forums and two threads “Future Status of GoBinder and PlanPlus” and “Announcing the abandonment of GoBinder2006” horrified me instantly. Now I need to make it clear that [...]

07
May

Laptops Considered "Educationally Empty"

According to a recent New York Times article some schools around the US are abandoning a notebook per student requirement. They claim that they do more harm than good. Liverpool High, NY, is one of the schools beginning to phase out laptop requirements. School board president Mark Lawson believes that “After seven [...]

06
May

Gateway E155c Gets Reviewed

The champions over at notebookreview.com have a moderately in depth review of the Gateway e155c or C120x whatever you want to call it. It seems like Gateway’s first second fifth? attempt at a tablet has resulted in some solid results but notebookreview still found some room for improvement. They liked its appearance and feel [...]

04
May

HP Feels Generous

As part of a program to encourage student interest in science, technology, engineering and math, HP has decided to award 172 schools and universities around the US with a bounty of tech goodness consisting of:

Five HP Tablet PCs, five multimedia projectors, five HP digital cameras, five HP Officejet All-in-Ones, software and accessories, and a [...]

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