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Missing OneNote…

I dropped by JB Hi Fi today in the hope of spotting an Asus eee PC 121 Windows Slate - a largish tablet at 12" but with a real active digitizer screen.

Instead what I found was this nifty 10" Acer Iconia W501, with capacitive touch. Especially nifty as it comes with it's own dock-keyboard.

Both do something my iPad doesn't - run OneNote! An all in one productivity app I have really come to miss.

The ASUS has the precision control of a true active digitizer and stylus, but the size really makes it on the 'luggable' size. I think a 10" model with about AU $400 shaved off the price, would make it a dream machine.

The ACER Iconia will run OneNote fine, and the handwriting recognition seemed excellent today when trying it out. The price point is good. I think the capacitive-only input would continue to frustrate me though...

I really like my iPad. The form factor, battery life and responsiveness can't be faulted. For my money though, it needs true digitizer stylus input as an option, it needs a real OneNote implementation, it needs a Bluetooth mouse... Ok, I think I'm describing the ASUS eee 121... Sigh.