Tablet PCs?

[nishishei]

Are tablets practical yet or more like a gimmick?

I'm looking to get an HP 2730p (12.1", LV 1.86ghz) to complement my MBP, mainly for travel, notes and brainstorming. It's $1700. Battery life 10 hrs with the slice. Good deal or not? Anyone have one and care to give some opinions? Thanks.

Here's the one I'm looking at:

 

[benflick]

To me, all tablets are ugly, that one not so much. This is what I have my eye on

 

[andreab35]

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I have a Gateway M275 tablet. Personally when I bought it I thought it was a pretty good laptop. I bought it refurbished off eBay for $400 two years ago.
It's a 1.7 gHZ with 512MB of RAM on it. Handled XP well.
I put Vista on it and it is handles horribly with it. I need to upgrade the RAM for some increase in performance.
But anyway, I think a tablet is a good investment- as long as you use the tablet feature.

 

[ucfgrad93]

I bought a tablet PC in 2004. Never really used it to its potential. I wouldn't buy one again.

 

[Mammoth]

A tablet being useful or not depends on if you'll use it as a tablet.

But I can say that HP is one of the best tablets on the market. (Lenovo's offerings are also very good) I'd like to have one.

 

[richard.mac]

Tablets are useful for Doctors and Designers. who wants to type on a touch screen anyway? it would be like the iPhone keyboard whiners all over again! (FYI i like the iPhone keyboard).

 

[GfPQqmcRKUvP]

In terms of just specs and visual appearance, I think that HP is horrendous. The ThinkPad X series tablet, however, has me drooling.