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And OneNote is the best tablet app ever. You can drag things on it from webpages, and it will make your writing searchable, even if you don't have it OCR it on the note page.
I've had a Toshiba tablet for years. It's great for taking notes, and has a real KB/touchpad for when you need to type.
And it's always multitasked.
Don't drink the koolaid.
It's an iPod Touch that you can't fit in your pocket!
It's a laptop that can't run full applications!
It has a full-size virtual keyboard that you can't type on with both hands!
There's a reason there's never been even a minimally successful product in this niche: The niche doesn't exist.
Twenty-four hours before I saw the iPad, I was confidently saying things like this to friends and co-workers:
"Sure, I'm an Apple fan, but I'm definitely not a fanBOY who drinks the koolaid.
I mean, I love my Mac at home, my Mac at work, and I have a neat little fourth-gen iPod.
But I just can't see how anything like a tablet computer could possibly be of use to me."
Forty-two minutes after seeing the word "iPad" in giant letters on the screen behind Mr. Jobs, I whispered under my breath, "Great gods of Olympus! I have to have one of these.
"Immediately."
Why?
Because it really, truly does do things a large iPod Touch just can't do.
It really, truly does do things a MacBook just can't do.
I don't travel much, so I don't have a laptop.
But I do write, and have always wanted to have the ability to do so wherever I am.
I just couldn't justify the cost of a laptop for little more than a word processor plus web and email access.
And, no, a netbook wouldn't do it for me.
I looked at them, and -- well, like Jobs said, "netbooks are just cheap laptops with PC software."
I don't know about anyone else, but the iPad meets a need I've had since the first laptop was announced years ago.
A need that no product category has ever met.
Until I heard Steve Jobs say the word, "iPad" on Wednesday.
I'd love to get a tablet if it was a replacement for my college text books. Cost would be less for digital versions, easier to carry, and save some trees.
Until I can comfortably replace my iPhone, Kindle and laptop with one device that has a camera, I am sticking to multiple devices.
I had a Dell Latitude XT through work (prior job), and loved it. I read and write for a living, and it was great to have two options for user interface--the touchscreen was perfect for reading and annotating, notetaking, and travel (think airplane use), but having the keyboard option meant better annotations and easier writing when space or distraction of others wasn't an issue. I would love a netbook version of that--same essential functionality but even smaller, lighter, and cheaper. I'm holding out for that.