[review] Toshiba Portege M400

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For the price of a very high quality/performance notebook with a dash of Tablet premium, the Toshiba Portege M400 is a great machine with plenty of processing power in a small package that includes the functionality and coolness of a Tablet PC.

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I have just posted a short review of this amazing Tablet PC: http://istartedsomething.com/2006...-pc-review.html

And also a short article about where the tablet lacks: http://istartedsomething.com/2006...m400-lacks.html

And then a video review of it here: http://istartedsomething.com/2006...rtege-m400.html

If you have any additional questions, please add them here and I'll respond when I'm not fiddling with it :p

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Very professional review. Just out of curiosity, though, would you say there is a noticeable difference between the accuracy and sensitivity of the Tablet compared to a normal Wacom graphic tablet (ignoring pressure awareness)?

Having not used a Wacom graphics tablet, I can't give you an answer for that.

However. There is pressure sensitivity on the tablet pc, same 1024 levels as the graphic tablets.

And accuracy and sensitivity are very good, not perfect, but good enough for writing or drawing small objects.

why is it called a tablet and not a laptop or notebook?

Thats up to personal preference. But tablet usually indicates a laptop/notebook with stylus technology, for convinence.

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I've been researching this. I'm a little scared by this conversation, though. Have you had these problems?

Yes. I've had both problems. But they're not as serious as they sound.

The screen which does not resume from standby is not always a problem. However when it is, it can be easily fixed by rotating the screen to tablet mode, than bringing it back to laptop mode. It should turn the screen back on.

And this problem seems to be fixed by uninstalling the shipped version of the Power Saver ultility, and resinstalling it from a version downloaded from Toshiba's website. Even though they are the same version. I have tried this, and it seems that I no longer have this problem.

The freezing problem I've only had when I just got the machine. Over the last few weeks, updating drivers and applications seems to have reduced the problem. Sometimes it is still there, and I guess it just prevents you from working for about 5 seconds. Not too serious, and doesn't occur very often.

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I'm pretty sure this is the one...unless Toshiba or the other manufacturers decide to let another duo Tablet PC go over the summer. Knowing my luck, August will roll around, I'll by one, classes will start, then I'll read about the release of one that's 10x better.

But this one deffinitely has "winner" written all over it.

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