Many of you have asked about the inking ability of the Acer 1825 PT I reviewed two weeks back, so I thought I would do a short demonstration video of it.
As you can see its not a perfect experience and won’t provide the same level as a full tablet PC with an active digitiser but it usable for short note taking sessions.
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Thanks for that. It shows just how useless capacitive screens are if you want to be creative. I want to be able to write between the lines not huge letters that take up half the screen. I wish you’d bought an ASUS T101MT so we could see how the palm rejection works.
Thanks for the vid.
I was tempted to import a capacitive stylus, but at least I know it’s not worth the effort.
I guess I won’t be getting the 1825T since the touchscreen seems more of a gimmick than something useful. I’ll be getting the 1830T with a Core i5 CPU instead. Thanks for the touchscreen update. I was delaying my purchase based on the touchscreen usefulness.
Thanks for the nice post. I want to be able to write between the lines not huge letters that take up half the screen. I wish you’d bought an ASUS T101MT so we could see how the palm rejection works.
I just tried it out at the shop… quite usable, although brightness is not as powerful as their non-touch LCDs…
The Win7 Input keyboard can be resized by the way, as wide or as tall as you like. I did the quick brown fox at 3 chars per second, with concurrent Ctrl and/or Shifts…
It’s a bit slow vs full C2D laptops, but would be really nice as a reader.
After playing with the software keyboard, would really like a slate version…
unlucky for you…stupid, buy the 1820 i have, wrist reject, can use ordinary pen or stulys for input…1825 are just commercial trick for you, everybode wants a stupid capacity screen…otherwise buy HP TouchSmart TM2 with active digitizer. But is is no different with acer 1820 when it comes to inking…but the 1825, you are fooled ;)
I just got the Acer 1820PT and could not be happier :)
– Fast cpu, boots Win7 Ultimate in 30 seconds (after reformat and reinstall of Win 7 with acer drivers only)
– Watch videos for 5.5 hrs, normal work (browse with VS2010 .Net development) with wifi for more than 7 hrs
– Multi-touch response very good and accurate, I think it uses a resistive touch screen rather than capacitive (I think this is the difference between the 1825PT)
– Screen size quality is awesome and reflective issue is not a big deal for me and is manageable.
I am so glad I got this notebook, fed up with waiting for other manufacturers to release a good touch notebook, thank you Acer !
While I was waiting for turn out differences between 1820PT and 1825PT, that acting for inking with it, I corraled Touchsmart TM2 from “renew” program of HP.
This was cheaper with a few dollars, than Acer and I had an HP external optical drive as a present…
Credit for “stupid” commenter: touching and inking on TM2 is near perfect.
Thanks for Guy and HP!
I can’t speak for the ASUS T101MT, but I have their T91MT and I ink all the time. The problem is not palm rejection but speed. The TIP tends to bring things to a crawl, especially in tablet mode (N.B. cooling is normally through the keyboard and in tablet mode they throttle the CPU). Fine if you are thinking about what you want to write but less useful if you are trying to jot things down. OTOH, inking in a app which keeps things in ink format is fine.