[Wftl-lug] London, Ontario Computer Dealer

[Jon Biddell]

Well, I'm bidding on one on eBay which finishes in 2.5 hours, so I'll  
know shortly whether or not I'll have one... If I do get it, I'll be  
dual-booting (a necessary evil at the moment), but I'll certainly  
write some words on it.

Jon

> I think that this email would be the basis for a good article for  
> TuxZine.  I have often wondered about the in's and out's and up's  
> and down's of a tablet PC for Linux.  It doesn't have to be a long  
> article.  If you felt like it, you could just dress up this email a  
> little bit with a start, flesh out the middle, and you've got an  
> artlcle.
>
> Just my 2 cents.  No pressure.
>
> On 1/7/07, Jon Biddell <jon at mandrake.net.au> wrote:
> For a number of reasons....
>
> I want something portable and relatively easy to draw / write on,  
> rather than being locked to a keyboard. I know IBM make a ThinkPad  
> "convertable", where the screen twists around and lays flay against  
> the keyboard, but this is *not* a tablet PC. The HP TC1100 /  
> TC1000's were the only "true" tablet PC, in that the screen was  
> able to be disconnected  from the keyboard and the smarts were in  
> the screen. The keyboard was realy redundant if you wanted to leave  
> it off permenantly.
>
> Plus the TC1100 has good battery life and is small (10 - 12"  
> screen), and runs Linux with touch control quite nicely/.
>
>> Why not a good ThinkPad instead?
>>
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>>> From: Jon Biddell <jon at mandrake.net.au>
>>> Reply-To: The WFTL LUG < wftl-lug at salmar.com>
>>> To: The WFTL LUG <wftl-lug at salmar.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [Wftl-lug] London, Ontario Computer Dealer
>>> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 08:14:15 +1100
>>>
>>> Thanks Charles - I'm possibly looking at buying a tablet PC from  
>>> him  in
>>> the near future, and was wondering what his service was like.
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>>>> Is there anyone on the list in the London Ontario area that  
>>>>> may   know of
>>>>> a
>>>>> dealer called BigGeek Computers ?
>>>>
>>>> Jon I bought 3 hard drives from BigGeek over ebay. They all  
>>>> arrived in
>>>> good working order. I live in Kitchener.
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