Just like I do the New York Times.
Just check out the link to the ZDN?T which gives
Just check out the link to the ZDN?T which gives reviews to several tablets.. and was surprise to read the users' comments.
The fujitsu T3000 model had 184 comments but the Acer C110 had only 9 comments... And those comments were sometimes funny....
I am curious how many of you believe the information from that website ?
Just like I do the New York Times.
The motion M1300 which i consider much more popular compared to T3000 (in term of sales) only shows 8 users' reviews. Why is there so much difference ? Relatively, toshiba 3505 model got 40 users' review which is acceptable.
I should be glad I knew this forum before making my decision to purchase.
This forum is where the real passionate Tablet PC users are :D
This forum is where the real passionate Tablet PC users are :D
Call me silly but I think The Buzz is unique. I've followed forums and newsgroups as well as reviews (user reviews and those of journalists) for years. I've always kept a cautious eye on what I've read because you seem to find a preponderance of the negative (user groups and forums) and a good dose of cynicism (reviews)in most of these places or you find out and out blinded by the light cheerleading.
Here, in my one man's opinion, there is certainly some of that but the discourse seems leavened with much more of a sense of reality and perspective. I don't know if this is true or not, but I suspect this has something to do with the pysche of those who have gravitated to Tablet PC's as early adopters and also something to do with the cost and investment it requires to go down the tablet path currently.
Just a thought.
Call me silly but I think The Buzz is unique. I've followed forums and newsgroups as well as reviews (user reviews and those of journalists) for years. I've always kept a cautious eye on what I've read because you seem to find a preponderance of the negative (user groups and forums) and a good dose of cynicism (reviews)in most of these places or you find out and out blinded by the light cheerleading.
Here, in my one man's opinion, there is certainly some of that but the discourse seems leavened with much more of a sense of reality and perspective. I don't know if this is true or not, but I suspect this has something to do with the pysche of those who have gravitated to Tablet PC's as early adopters and also something to do with the cost and investment it requires to go down the tablet path currently.
Just a thought.
Wcrocker
I agree, there is something "unusual" going on here.
Early adopters at the extreme left edge of the curve (read Crossing the Chasm), will sometimes develop their own relatively closed communities.
Historically, those communities have been vendor sponsored or name brand centred. This made sense because much of the members had in common was based on the eccentricities of a particular vendor offering.
Opinions about some of the contributing factors to the "difference" @ the Buzz:
- As you say, the price of admission (a Tablet PC) has in the past been higher than other portable computing options. Strangely, though, this place seems as open to people "thinking about it with toes approaching the water" as it is to people who have taken the plunge. I don't know if this means that having a Tablet PC leads to meeting a better class of people, but...
- The Tablet PC is a specification, not a product. The common issues span across vendor offerings.
- Forum software, although not new, like the web over the past few years has become much more accessible and the technology almost transparent.
- Pen based computing is not new, but...
- It comes around "again" at a time where notebook sales are ahead of desktops.
- A new baseline for commodity computing has been reached.
- A new threshold for innovation in personal computing has been established
- Most of us here are peering over the edge
- I think most of us here are looking outward/forward at the concept, as opposed to at "each other"
- Vendor support is constrained by the commoditization of most of their offerings, and this vehicle is flexible enough to allow / foster peer to peer support that rivals and betters first/second line support from many vendors.
- Much better
than leavened with yeast and hopsquote:leavened with much more of a sense of reality and perspective- Spencer's indomitable enthusiasm and efforts without [i]blinded by the light cheerleading[i]
quote:Originally posted by Wcrocker
Call me silly but I think The Buzz is unique. I've followed forums and newsgroups as well as reviews (user reviews and those of journalists) for years. I've always kept a cautious eye on what I've read because you seem to find a preponderance of the negative (user groups and forums) and a good dose of cynicism (reviews)in most of these places or you find out and out blinded by the light cheerleading.
Here, in my one man's opinion, there is certainly some of that but the discourse seems leavened with much more of a sense of reality and perspective. I don't know if this is true or not, but I suspect this has something to do with the pysche of those who have gravitated to Tablet PC's as early adopters and also something to do with the cost and investment it requires to go down the tablet path currently.
Just a thought.
Wcrocker
I agree, there is something "unusual" going on here.
Early adopters at the extreme left edge of the curve (read Crossing the Chasm), will sometimes develop their own relatively closed communities.
Historically, those communities have been vendor sponsored or name brand centred. This made sense because much of the members had in common was based on the eccentricities of a particular vendor offering.
Opinions about some of the contributing factors to the "difference" @ the Buzz:
- As you say, the price of admission (a Tablet PC) has in the past been higher than other portable computing options. Strangely, though, this place seems as open to people "thinking about it with toes approaching the water" as it is to people who have taken the plunge. I don't know if this means that having a Tablet PC leads to meeting a better class of people, but...
- The Tablet PC is a specification, not a product. The common issues span across vendor offerings.
- Forum software, although not new, like the web over the past few years has become much more accessible and the technology almost transparent.
- Pen based computing is not new, but...
- It comes around "again" at a time where notebook sales are ahead of desktops.
- A new baseline for commodity computing has been reached.
- A new threshold for innovation in personal computing has been established
- Most of us here are peering over the edge
- I think most of us here are looking outward/forward at the concept, as opposed to at "each other"
- Vendor support is constrained by the commoditization of most of their offerings, and this vehicle is flexible enough to allow / foster peer to peer support that rivals and betters first/second line support from many vendors.
- Much better
than leavened with yeast and hopsquote:leavened with much more of a sense of reality and perspective- Spencer's indomitable enthusiasm and efforts without [i]blinded by the light cheerleading[i]
quote:Originally posted by Wcrocker
Call me silly but I think The Buzz is unique. I've followed forums and newsgroups as well as reviews (user reviews and those of journalists) for years. I've always kept a cautious eye on what I've read because you seem to find a preponderance of the negative (user groups and forums) and a good dose of cynicism (reviews)in most of these places or you find out and out blinded by the light cheerleading.
Here, in my one man's opinion, there is certainly some of that but the discourse seems leavened with much more of a sense of reality and perspective. I don't know if this is true or not, but I suspect this has something to do with the pysche of those who have gravitated to Tablet PC's as early adopters and also something to do with the cost and investment it requires to go down the tablet path currently.
Just a thought.
I must admit that I often have my doubts to the comments on ZDnet. Over the past years, it has become more and more commercialize and it seems as if the "official" reviews are biased towards that. Similarly, I wonder if vendors place comments for their own products -- I remember in the past reading through reviews for PDA's and a good portion of a specific one (can't remember which one) was by Anonymous with very similar format. (the title started the sentence, continued in the body of the message, were one sentence long. Only Pro listed, no con.) There were about 30 of these, somewhat regularly spaced apart in timing. Needless to say, it made me suspicious about the ratings that are given.
On the other hand, I had just put in a short praise for the Acer 110 TCi that I just bought (off a post in the For Sale forum!) with a link to this site saying that here is the place to come for the real low-down! Not sure if it's going to get posted as then this window popped up saying that all posts are reviewed -- I wonder if they'll post it because there's a link to "off -site".
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