Comments on: Toshiba Portege M200

By: benben

benben — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:14:10 +0000

I bought M200 used on ebay. I always wanted a tablet. While I admit I dont use the stylus as much as I thought I would, I like being able to flip the screen around and read my computer like a book. Great feature! I do dabble in Photoshop every now and then and the stylus is great for this. Make sure you reinstall the Wacom drivers to enable pressure sensitivity in this app.

By: corry tutahione

corry tutahione — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:22:14 +0000

thanks for the great review! Ive used a tablet briefly once before and enjoyed the experience and thoroughly appreciated your review. The addition of pictures was great as I am doing all my research on the net and will probably buy without seeing or getting to use the comptuer first, so really appreciate good reviews. this is the most thorough and comprehensive review so far, which say alot as i have spent the last 3 hours reading reviews on this tablet. thanks again.

By: slortar

slortar — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:03:41 +0000

Hi thank you!

To be truthful, I don’t use the pen input very much in office apps. I use it in laptop mode for the most part in Word. I did have an opportunity to work on a PowerPoint in tablet mode, and it was a little frustrating. I believe the office 2k3 apps (and XP apps with a patch) allow commenting and annotation via pen, but text entry only happens via the Tablet Input Panel — TIP. The recognition is highly accurate — better than my Newton 2100 (which was as good as anything for free-form input, IMHO). I sense that the trade-off is the limited area — by confining handwriting input to the TIP.

I’ve had almost a whole semester to put this thing through its paces.

1) The battery life is great — I bought a second battery for extended runtime, but I’ve gone as long as 4 hours on a charge without any warnings (17% remaining charge).
2) The learning curve for reading/annotating on the tablet itself was a much harder adjustment than I had anticipated. It took me a good 3 weeks to become proficient to it.
3) If you’re easily distracted at your computer, going paperless is going to require discipline!

I can say, though, that after getting up to speed, it’s saved me a lot of time. I’m also quicker to turn notes around.

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:49:15 +0000

Go figure I start to look into this model and a review comes up here!

Great stuff!
I’d also like to see a follow-up after you’ve had it for a while.

By: London-Drew

London-Drew — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:08:35 +0000

Fantastic Review! I have been hovering around the Tablets for quite some time and wondered if it would be a good time to take the plunge with a new release of the OS last year.

I would like to see another review in a few months when the newness wears off and the real uses become ingrained.