DaveTN
05-07-2008, 12:24 PM
I have been a Tablet PC advocate since almost the beginning and have had my share of tablets over the years. But yesterday I came across a deal I couldn't refuse.
About a year ago I posted some pics of 20 ST5010D's stacked up at a medical office I used to work at. They just went EMR and purchased the tablets. I set them all up for them and got them going with EMR then moved on in my career. Anyway, yesterday I went to visit and saw a stack of the tablets in a corner of my old office and asked what happened to them. There was 5, one with a cracked screen, one with a bad digitizer, onother with a bad HDD, one with a bad power switch and one that wouldn't boot.
I asked what they were doing with them and the manager told me nothing since the support contract ran out. Well, I seized the opportunity and told her that I could get at least a couple fo them working. She asked how much and I told her I'd trade the work for one of the tablets if I could get them working.
Several hours later, I had three working tablets for the office and one for myself. I scavanged several parts, including the digitizer from the one with the broken screen and used the RAM from it to give myself an extra 512.
So, now I have a very nice ST5010D, A Gateway CX2620 Tablet dual booting XP-TPC and Vista, a Toshiba M200 with the 2.0 Dothan and 2 gigs of ram running Vista. And......I just bought a Samsung Q1! (Doh! Should have waited) My past tablets are the venerable TC1000 and the somewhat problematic Portege 3505.
Since I'll be starting PA (Physician Assistant) school, my Gateway is gonna serve as my portable desktop as it's just too heavy to use as a tablet. My M200 will be my all around tablet and the Fujitsu will be my "OneNote Notepad" which I'll use for all my notetaking in school. The M200 served me well for that in my undergrad. My little Sammy....well, I'll see what niche it fits into. I'll put it to good use though.
David
About a year ago I posted some pics of 20 ST5010D's stacked up at a medical office I used to work at. They just went EMR and purchased the tablets. I set them all up for them and got them going with EMR then moved on in my career. Anyway, yesterday I went to visit and saw a stack of the tablets in a corner of my old office and asked what happened to them. There was 5, one with a cracked screen, one with a bad digitizer, onother with a bad HDD, one with a bad power switch and one that wouldn't boot.
I asked what they were doing with them and the manager told me nothing since the support contract ran out. Well, I seized the opportunity and told her that I could get at least a couple fo them working. She asked how much and I told her I'd trade the work for one of the tablets if I could get them working.
Several hours later, I had three working tablets for the office and one for myself. I scavanged several parts, including the digitizer from the one with the broken screen and used the RAM from it to give myself an extra 512.
So, now I have a very nice ST5010D, A Gateway CX2620 Tablet dual booting XP-TPC and Vista, a Toshiba M200 with the 2.0 Dothan and 2 gigs of ram running Vista. And......I just bought a Samsung Q1! (Doh! Should have waited) My past tablets are the venerable TC1000 and the somewhat problematic Portege 3505.
Since I'll be starting PA (Physician Assistant) school, my Gateway is gonna serve as my portable desktop as it's just too heavy to use as a tablet. My M200 will be my all around tablet and the Fujitsu will be my "OneNote Notepad" which I'll use for all my notetaking in school. The M200 served me well for that in my undergrad. My little Sammy....well, I'll see what niche it fits into. I'll put it to good use though.
David