I bought one of these and returned it. And yes, it is FAST!

First, it is HOT HOT HOT! The fan ran constantly, even in power saver mode, and was far too hot to set in my lap. Any usage at all, even web-browsing, heated it up fast.
Having it in Journal, no other apps open, not even inking on it, and the fan ran constantly. Over an hour it literally heated up my work area and had me sweating in a 70 degree room. The fan was loud enough I often could not hear what was being said by the speaker.

Also, the digitizer would not calibrate correctly near the edges of the screen. I can’t tell you how many times I calibrated it, no dice.

Third, the keyboard was somewhat cheesey, and the space bar was all jacked up (press it and no space, press it hard, and you got a space.)

I returned it and got a Gateway tablet, and so far I LOVE it! Fast, cool-running, no glitches or gremlins.
Now I am ordering a Dell tablet at work!

Have you tried to connect a MediaCenter Extender to the TX2000? My xbox 360 won’t connect to it, and I’m thinking that both the fingerprint reader and the Wacom digitizer drivers may be interfering. I’d like to know whether you have the same problem.

I don’t find heat to be a problem. I get 4 hours with the 8 cell. It will be proportionally less with the standard battery, which is 4 cell.

jejeje one more question …

how hot does it get the area surrounding the pointing device (the pad) the right and left area?

and how hot does it get the under part of teh tablet and the hard disk area?

Cheers,

Heyy james!!!

good overview for this tablet.
Ypu post this article on April 10th. Can you tell us something about the battery? How long can you work with the 8 cell battery, and if you can try the 6 Cell battery too.

Cheers and have a great weekend.

Only problem with this remote (on my TX1410us) is that a few critical keys are missing.

On certain DVDs with multiple movies I cannot get back to the root menu without going thru a boatload of key presses…usually easier to just open the tabletpc and manually do it.

As a media center (other than tons of Vista issues) the TX1000 is great…no need for hw recognition on a ‘desktop’.

For on-the-go stuff I use my trusty ST5111.

Can you comment a little on the weight? I’ve heard from multiple places that it’s heavy for a tablet, but its supposed to just be 4.26 pounds, which is less than a pound’s difference from my X61, which seems darn light.

Guess not! Oh well, I’ll wait for the review!

I think this would make a great Home Media Center system. In fact I am looking for a new PC for the kitchen and this is exactly what I am looking for

Usually I would wait for you to do a review James but I needed a tablet and the mix of touch, digitiser and price was just too tantilising. Even with poor battery life and a bit of extra heft those features are just too good to ignore. The most infuriating thing is the lack of a dedicated Ctrl-Alt-Del. So even though I have fingerprint recognition – I have to pop the hood first.

Obligatory question: is it fast?

No, wait… you already answered that…

How does it score on the Vista experience?

I haven’t tried hibernation yet but with 4 GB of memory I’ll bet it would be dog slow.

Dual core is right, that’s what I meant.

This sounds like the same model I won at the tablet meet up at CES. I really like it but I have a question about recovering from hibernate. When I am on battery power it takes 2 minutes to fully recover from hibernate. This seems like a long time and I was wondering what your experiences are.