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Re: Tablet PCs required for Virginia Tech engineers...
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:37:05 -0400
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:53:58 -0000, Fergie said:
Hey, Valdis -- did you get to play with these? :-)
No, because I haven't seen a good Linux for them yet. ;)
http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6090046.html
Incidentally, there's a *lot* of people unhappy with this, because they wanted the requirement to be laptops instead. The tablets may be "cool", but they're way underpowered compared to a similar price laptop, and there's no clear objective for the use of a tablet's special features...
Also, how has it/will it impact your university network policies and security implementation(s)?
Somewhere between diddly and squat, given that we've *already* covered basically the entire campus with wireless, and a good chunk of the students and staff are laptop users already. As far as the net is concerned, a tablet is the same problem as a laptop.... OK.. So I lied. We haven't covered the *whole* campus yet. You still get crap for a signal in the middle of the Drill Field: http://www.unirel.vt.edu/vtsnaps/images/bldgs/125.jpg (Big 22 acre space in the middle of campus. And no, no matter how crowded construction gets around it, there will *never* be a building on it other than the War Memorial Chapel. http://www.unirel.vt.edu/vtsnaps/aerials/2.html#Anchor-604709-46919
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