First impressions – HP tc1100 Tablet PC

By James Kendrick | Wednesday, May 11, 2005 | 4:40 AM CT | 7 comments | Tweet This

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Comments (7)

James interesting enought take the keyboard off and feel how light the actual keyboard is! The keyboard weighs probably a few ounces. My 1100 is up at HP for CPU repair so hopefully you dont run into the same issue.

Dave Ciccone — 11:16 PM on May 10, 2005 Reply
Dave, yes the keyboard is extremely light and apparently the slate itself is right on my limit of longterm comfort as I find it a tad heavy with keyboard attached for very long. Sorry about your CPU and hope you get it back soon.

jk — 11:27 PM on May 10, 2005 Reply
The hinge and keyboard are pretty nifty. Not only is it a neat piece of engineering, somewhere in the hardware/software for it there is a mechanism that switchs the screen rotation when you switch from slate to laptop mode and vice versa, probably a common tablet thing but it always make a nice wow feature when I show it to someone.

apainter — 12:55 AM on May 11, 2005 Reply
The Bluetooth software isn’t installed by default, but it is in the HP software folder on the hard drive. It’s a sweet machine though. Mine only has 512mb of RAM as I’m testing a configuration for students. 1gb sounds very nice.

Mike — 1:38 AM on May 11, 2005 Reply
Mike, Testing for students?… Very cool.

I’ve been pushing some tablet stuff in my district. I have my supervisor and a few others converted and loving the Tablet OS. I’d love to see a classroom full of students plugging away with TC1100s.

apainter — 1:43 AM on May 11, 2005 Reply
Jk
when you do the review it would be great to see a photo comparing it in size to the Sony U750. thx

scoobie — 2:31 AM on May 11, 2005 Reply
Didn’t he sell his U750 to actually get this tablet?

Great to see that you like the TPC James . Maybe you can convince me someday to swap my U for a TPC aswell (although you really would have to come with some good points!).

Dave — 7:01 PM on May 11, 2005 Reply