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1.0 stars
"Piece of Crap"
Pros: Small, light, who cares?
Cons: Poor Construction, fit, finish, NOT durable at ALL
Summary: I ordered a loaded one. Lots of RAM, 80 Gig 5200 RPM Hard Drive, Docking station, DVD Drive, extra battery and carrying case. I could not get the pen into the unit. the corner of the unit looked like it wasn't assembled correctly, or even closed all the way. I took the back covers off the battery compartment, drive compartment and I/O compartment. At least two case screws were cross-threaded and not seated all the way. The Pen entryway shiny silver plastic entrance seemed to be cacked, jutting some plastic into the pen-path. The keyboard detaches, if you can force the slider out of the way. I was afraid I would break the damn thing, it seemd so frail. The DVD drive they sent with the docking station was the wrong one. didn't fit. I ordered an extra battery. A second battery is twice as much as the first battery (WHY?) Mind you, to put the original battery into this bad-boy you have to attach it with a tiny screw. Who designed this? Then they don't bother to give you a small screwdriver to screw the battery cover on with. Pissed me off but good. The second battery comes with a lovely piece of plastic to push it into, but no charger base. Who cares, but why include the extra piece of charger? Just more crap for me to pay for and throw away. I fired the unit up. Couldn't get the pen to agree with the screen coordinates for more than 5 minutes after re-aligning the screen to pen controls, more than once. I finally jammed the pen into the blocked hole and sent the whole thing back. Let them get the damn pen out. This thing couldn't survive a stiff breeze, and didn't survive it's own assembly. Just Desserts:
I'm the IT director for a large medical center, and we're looking at hundreds of these things. Not anymore. Today I'm calling Panasonic, Dell, Acer, Toshiba, Gateway, and anyone else who has a tablet. Bye Bye HP.
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The TC1100 is a very good tablet pc. I did not have any problems with it at all. The pen worked fine, the battery and other compartments did not give me any trouble at all. One thing I really like about it is that I can dictate to it and it will type every word I say without spending money on 3rd party speech recognition sofware. I also connected to my HP Deskjet 450 via infrared and no problems with printing there.
Since you are an IT manager/director, I know how busy and frustrated you can be. I used to work in the IT field myself(6 yrs).Venting out your frustrations on one imperfect pc doesn't necessarily make it a bad product overall. -
Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. I suffer from chronic OOS and got one of these Tablets for 3 months to see if it eased the typing and mouse-use pain. Wow - what a relief. Combine the Tablet with Office 2003 (in particular Outlook 2003) and you have a great combo for someone with OOS like mine. It's a shame you seem to have struck a dud with the Tablet you had. The one I rented was brilliant - it was smooth, easy to carry, had all the buttons and the pen in the right place for slate-writing - performed really well, and attracted heaps of comments whenever I finished a meeting with the minutes already complete. Even carrying the thing around was good - my fingers had a good natural hold through the docking port cavity in the back - never dropped it the whole time I had it. I'm writing a case to get one now... have compared it against other Tablets - incl the latest HP 4200 but they don't even come close to the ergonomics of this design... what a winner. Get one and give it a try. To anyone else reading this - Don't let one person's bad experience with a broken piece of equipment put you off a brilliantly designed unit.
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I'm looking at a tablet for college and I needed the advice from a IT guy
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dswpro's opinion is right on! HP is shoddy at best. I would have been better off to flush $1500 down the toilet than to give it to them. Every HP computer my family has bought had problems right out of the box. We pluged in my husband's monitor and it CAUGHT ON FIRE!!!
Your review was right on.
