Several of the things that influenced my decision:
- The screen is nice and big, with a nice crisp native resolution of 1400x1050.
- The keyboard layout makes more sense to me than all the other brands. However, there's still a couple of shortcomings about the keyboard I'd have designed differently.
- Pro: Home-PgUp-PgDn-End keys are perfectly located in column on right end of keyboard
- Con: Why did they put the Windows key and the right-click keys way up in the corner? Normally these are around the Alt and Ctrl and spacebar keys. I miss being able to use "Winkey - M" to minimize all windows. Or "Winkey - R" to open the run dialog. Or being able to just hit the "right-click" key to get the context menu to pop up, instead of having to use the right-mouse button.
- Pro: Has both the touchpad, as well as the eraser-head mouse thing. And the touchpad can be totally configured for lots of different actions (like right-side scrolling, or scroll and hold to continue scrolling).
- Con: What the hell is the tilda/reverse apostrophy key doing between the space bar and the Alt key? I'm a big "alt-tab" person, in order to switch quickly between apps. But I was constantly hitting tilda-tab, which isn't anything but annoying. I found a fix by remapping the tilda key to "LeftAlt", using a program I found at randyrants.com, called SharpKeys. So it doesn't matter if I miss the Alt key and hit the tilda, it still acts like Alt. The only drawback there is I can't type a tilda, but I've never really needed to, until now, as I'm talking about not being able to. I've been able to re-map a couple of other things: Swapped CapsLock with WinKey. Swapped "INS" with "RightClick". In my opinion, this is the way it should've been in the first place.
- Pro: When on a plane, I can put my laptop on the seat-tray, flipped around backwards so everything fits between me and the seat in front of me, with the screen angled away. Granted, I can't use the keyboard in this configuration, so I use it as a tablet with the pen. Mostly I'm just watching movies anyway
I've had times where I totally enjoyed it, and PLENTY of times where I've found myself researching online trying to find fixes for various
PEN NOT WORKING
Finding a slimbay battery.
Finding and installing the Bluetooth.
BLOATWARE
Removing the "buy at Toshiba" crap.
Installing a fresh install of Tablet PC.
Pro: Has SD card-reader built in.
Pro: Reading full-screen magazines via Zinio Reader or PDFs.
SPEAKERS RATTLE
DIRT UNDER SCREEN
Naturally runs hot. Notebook Hardware Control is a remedy.
There seems to be a bit of lagginess when it comes to responsiveness sometimes.
