Get rid of mark to market! Steve Forbes said it, it must be true! ;-)

I'll third the Gateway E-295/C-140X recommendation about tablets generally, but it's not something you'd want to carry around a ton. I use it for office project management work for software design, and the ability to snap screens off web apps with OneNote, draw modifications right on the image, and send this to my developers is invaluable to me. Even without discrete graphics, it does everything I need it to do, including Photoshop, etc. Taking it around my office or on trips isn't fine, but if you loaded it into a backpack and tried to carry it around with a bunch of books, it'd be pretty heavy.

Gateway also makes a 12 inch model, the C-120, and it you want to go the cheap route, Gateway has been selling refurbished models via e-Bay. I don't think the 12 incher has a Wacom screen like the 14 inch model (my screen is a joy to write with), but it does let you use either a pen or a finger, and allegedly work really well. It's a more manageable 4.5-5 lbs, and included an optical drive at that size. It uses the Core 2 Duo ULV, so it's no powerhouse, but it doesn't sound like you need that.

Whatever you get, check out OneNote for notetaking, it has wonderful tablet integration.

Work.

Lucky number four!

Fly away....(does a John Denver comment automatically disqualify you?)

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Engadget is IT. Period.

Tried to download yesterday, couldn't get it. Went to the Vista Team blog, found out my Sigmatel Codec Driver was bad news. There was no update from Gateway/MPC, so I uninstalled it. Still couldn't get SP1 via Windows Update, so I downloaded the full version, and installed it. It installed without a hitch, took about 45 minutes. I reinstalled the sound driver without a problem. Everything is working great, the slow hibernation return is much faster, I may be getting even better battery life (hard to tell so far), and the problem with hooking external displays to my laptops hasn't reared its ugly head yet. It was a bit of a pain to get it, but better that than I unknowingly hose my laptop or have a bad install because of an incompatible driver.

Mmmm.....Wings....or Star Trek....or EV-DO. I'm not picky.

Pretty please?