Toshiba’s R10 Tablet offers consumers a chance to bite at the tablet PC concept. While it’s an acceptable notebook in its own right, the tablet features won’t go far enough for most to make it a worthwhile purchase. <\/p>\n
Like the rest of Toshiba’s tablet PC designs, the Satellite R10 tablet is a convertible tablet, which means that in its standard form it’s virtually indistinguishable from a regular notebook. As a tablet, the other important design aspect of the R10 is the stylus, which can be found in a socket on the right hand side of the tablet. Using the same technology that’s behind Wacom’s Graphire writing tablets, the pen needs no power source and is remarkably accurate at picking up user pen strokes \u2013 although whether users are any good with tablets is another matter that we’ll touch on shortly.
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\nNew Tablet users, especially if you’ve never used a graphics tablet will probably find the experience of using a plastic pen on a plastic screen to be quite an unusual one, but once the newness has worn off you’ll realise that the hype about \u201cwriting\u201d with it is just hype, as it’s nothing like writing on paper at all. A little patience will improve your methodology, but it’s still an approximation at best. Likewise, the much vaunted handwriting recognition technology may be amazing conceptually, but in our real world testing we’ve always been able to find more than a few people able to confuse the software beyond help with just a few errant pen strokes.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Sydney Morning Herald has also a Toshiba Satellite R10 review:
\n\u2018But tablet PCs are yet to redeem themselves in the eyes of users and Toshiba\u2019s Satellite R10 tablet pc is a good example of why. The Satellite R10 has a 14.1 inch, 1024×768 display supported by integrated graphics. Under the bonnet is a 1.7 GHz Pentium M processor with 512 MB of RAM, a +\/-\/RAM dual layer DVD burner and a 60 GB hard drive. Ports include one FireWire, three USB2.0, a SD card slot and a PC card slot, along with VGA and s-video out. Other features include a 56K modem, 10\/100 Ethernet and 802.11 a\/b\/g wireless.<\/p>\n
An optional tablet multi-dock allows for easy connection to peripherals while at home or in the office. This makes the R10 an excellent $2500 notebook, but unfortunately it costs $3500. That $1000 premium buys you the ability to fold the keyboard under the monitor to create a tablet PC, using a stylus and handwriting recognition to enter text. If you are not going to regularly use it this way, you are simply wasting $1000. The R10 can be rested on the arm like a clipboard but it weighs in at 2.8 kilograms – much heavier than Toshiba\u2019s previous tablet PCs. Even Moses would have struggled with one of these tablets on each arm.\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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The Toshiba Satellite R10 is a perfect option for notebook users who would like to move beyond the keyboard and take notes, handwrite an e-mail or draw with digital ink on a portable, fully configured notebook PC. It is designed to offer dual functionality – a convertible notebook that allows users to work with a traditional keyboard, or a Tablet PC with digital pen-based input and control, once the LCD screen has been rotated and folded on top of the keyboard. The Satellite R10 laptop \/ tablet from Toshiba features a 14.1-inch XGA display that offers a large writing and viewing area, simulating the dimensions of a paper notepad.<\/p>\n