TC1100 Vista Experiences

[cwilder]

I've read through a lot of the posts detailing running Vista on a TC1100 but was curious what everyone's opinion was now that Vista has matured a little bit and the initial excitement has dissipated. I've got a 1ghz model with 1gb RAM for references purposes, would you recommend upgrading to Vista/Office '07 or sticking with XPT and '03?

[WNewquay]

Hello wev162,

To Vista or not to Vista probably has a lot to do with how you use your machine. If you do a lot of inking then you will probably appreciate Vista.

To move to Office 2007 or not is almost a separate issue and a visit to Microsoft's site for Office is probably a good place to start
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

I run Vista on all my Tablet PCs including a couple of TC1100s (both with 1.5 gigs of RAM) and I would *not* go back. I use the TC1100s without a keyboard 99% of the time and Vista works very well for me and is an improvement over Windows XP Tablet PC Edition for the way I work.

[cwilder]

Thanks for the reply. I use inking almost exclusively, what improvements have you noticed that point you firmly towards Vista? I've heard the inking is trainable, does this significantly increase accuracy and speed?

[jonw]

Excuse me for stepping in but, yes, the ink is trainable and for me the recognition is better by a mile with Vista. And that's without taking into account the other tablet enhancements in Vista. I say this with some certainty as I've just had to revert to XP to satisfy a corporate IT policy and it really brings home how much better Vista is. If you don't need the SD card or have apps that won't run under Vista I can't recommend it enough.