Can anyone share their experiences with using a tablet or slate type laptop with amazing charts? Also, which tablet pcs do you recommend? They can be quite expensive and I want make sure it's worth the cost. Great appreciate your input.
I have a Toshiba Tecra M4 that I've been using for about 6 wks now. It works great c AC. I draw pictures in windows journal, add them to the PE, and can review them prior to the next visit (bug with V3 that is being worked on now), all you do is download the free reader form microsoft onto your PC when it prompts you the first time. The microsoft download site has a ton of free software you can add to the tablet also. I take it with me everywhere!!!
We,ve been using the Gateway tablets, both the older M275 & the Newer 7200 and we're very happy with them. We had an older Toshiba M200 but it was slow as death. We're keeping it for archival purposes with our old clunky EMR (ChartWare, yuck!). But again nice support (business client, mail order) nice machines. Don't want to jinx it but so far 3 Gateways (2 tablets and 1 tower 3 years old) and not a single hardware failure. Hope this helps... Paul
:evil: ***Warning*** FYI, for all who could use such info. Toshiba Tablet, Model M-200. Yesterday, we just had our 2nd Video card/motherboard failure in two years. It was just about this same time of year (late June) that we had a sudden failure of the same kind, requiring the replacement of the motherboard in question. Because of such failure we were without that fairly critical computer for most of a week awaiting a new back ordered board. Once I can understand but twice seems a bit suspect to me. Meanwhile the Gateway tablet, model M-275 we purchased at the same exact time just about two years ago when we opened, has not said "Peep" once in all that time. Nor has our new 7200 Gateway tablet either that we purchased this New Year. ***Warning***
Tried the Fujitsu Stylistic ST5022 Tablet PC at a trade show with AC loaded. Screen size worked great, handwriting recogntion incredible- Like it could read your mind. Cant justify the cost at the moment ($2000 retail) but I will be buying one soon. Somewhere else on this board a doc was using voice recognition on a tablet with Amazing Charts and was tickled to death with the combo. Unfortunatly I cant get to my Personal Messages to give you his info. Hope they fix it. Regards,
Tried the Fujitsu Stylistic ST5022 Tablet PC at a trade show with AC loaded. Screen size worked great, handwriting recogntion incredible- Like it could read your mind. Cant justify the cost at the moment ($2000 retail) but I will be buying one soon. Somewhere else on this board a doc was using voice recognition on a tablet with Amazing Charts and was tickled to death with the combo. Unfortunatly I cant get to my Personal Messages to give you his info. Hope they fix it. Regards,
You are probably referring to me, but I am still alive. I did not like any of the tablets or convertable tablets, as they are underpowered in general for continuous speech recognition. I finally got a dual processor Toshiba M400 convertable ( dual 1.86 mhz p4, 2g mem, 100 g drive, 4.5#) with builtin wireless g and builtin EVDO-1 (no external antenna). When using it for AC3, it is set up in landscape mode to keep the ac3 screens all visible and not having to scroll it around. My area has pretty good EVDO coverage and my satellite offices (shared offices) are not well connected by hardwire. I also cover a few hospitals and like to feed data back to the office through the day rather than wait until the evenings or back in the office.
I run dragon 8 with a sennheiser headset thru an andrea usb pod, and get very usable voice dictation (dragon runs on the m400, and loads across a logmein connection to a matched resolution screen on a pc running ac3x and networked in my main office system). The builtin array microphone in this toshiba is fine for dictation recordings that would be transcribed by a human, but it is too error-prone for voice recognition.
I would prefer a slate tablet for the weight, but no slate yet offers cpu power sufficient for speech, evdo preferably builtin (to avoid the external antenna), and running through a RTS type setup to a backend pc.
We have been looking at getting Fujitsu P1510 tablet pcs. Has anyone had any experience with this Fujitsu tablet? Do I need to boost the ram to 1GB (comes w/ 512).
