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(More customer reviews)This is the most versatile and powerful Tablet PC I've used to date.
Pros:
Available inputs = keyboard - customizable touchpad - customizeable digitizer pen - fingertips - optional USB mouse and last but not least a very accurate voice command using either the built in dual microphones or an optional headset.
As a tablet, the digitizer pen has very good sensitivity and terrific handwriting recognition ability.
Input using my finger tips on the screen is every bit as responsive and accurate as the screen of my iPhone 4 and allows for the same type of finger gestures (spreading, scrolling, etc.)
After purchasing the optional modular bay battery that occupies the optical (DVD) drive slot, I get over six and a half hours of battery life while using this dual battery configuration under the Windows 7 "High Performance" Power Plan.
The Intel multi-core i3 processor has plenty of processing speed and I believe in a tablet configuration provides a better balance of power, battery charge and heat dissipation than its beefier i5 and i7 siblings.
Out of the box this tablet performed very well for standard home use. I, however am not a typical home user and immediately upgraded the operating system to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit to overcome the 3GB memory barrier of the 32 bit OS and to unlock all available features.
My choices of hardware upgrades included 8GB of DDR3 RAM which is the machine's hardware maximum. This allowed me to permanently turn off virtual memory and eliminate that memory performance bottleneck as well as to minimize disk fragmentation.
To improve disk performance (IOPS) the 5400 RPM 160GB Hard Drive was replaced with a 7200 RPM 500GB Hard Drive.
To finish up the hardware upgrade, I loaded a Ready Boost compatible 16GB micro SD card into the built-in front panel slot and then configured it to be used exclusively for Ready Boost operations.
After the OS and hardware upgrades, the Windows Experience Index scores averaged 5.7 allowing this little tablet to perform everything I threw at it with the greatest of ease. My performance testing included running nine VMware virtual machines from an external USB drive simultaneously (Win 7 Pro 32, Win Vista Ult 32, Win XP 32, Win Srv 2008 Ent, Win Srv 2003 R2 Ent, Win SBS 2003 R2, Win Me, Fedora Linux and Free BSD 8.0 RC3) with applications and services running normally in each and keeping the performance settings on the host machine set for best appearance. If you can show me an iPad or netbook available today that will do that, I'll eat it smothered in tabasco sauce.
This tablet has an exceptional internal heat dissipation design with a built in removable air filter to keep the eventual damage from overheating caused by internal dust buildup to a minimum. (HP, Dell and NVidia should probably make a note of that one!)
Cons:
The fingerprint sensor has yet to recognize and register any of my fingerprints successfully.
In an effort to emulate their competitors, Fujitsu has included pre-loaded software utilities that produce errors on the first and all subsequent logons which provides an error noise and two boxes that need the "OK" buttons to be clicked before we can get started. This annoyance provides the customer with an assurance that this product was designed by humans that can err, and may occasionally forget to test products before their release.
The Fujitsu Shock Sensor software is a continuous interruption if allowed to operate. This utility has obviously been borrowed from standard Fujitsu notebooks, and is not designed for Tablet PCs that are frequently flipped around while jotting notes and then tucked back under an arm.
This tablet does not have outputs for S-Video or Composite video, but does have HDMI and VGA outputs.
After a month of using this tablet, I've had no "Blue Screens" and have been thrilled with the graphics and overall performance from this Veyron of Tablet PC's.
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