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HP Tablet PC tc4200 ( PV984AW#ABA )
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Product Info
- Brand: Hewlett-Packard
- EAN: 0829160861739
- Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard (Consumables)
Features
- Intel Pentium M Proc.
- 1.86GHz, 512MB, 60GB
- 12.1 XGA, XP Tablet
Accessories
Editorial Reviews:
HEWLETT PACKARD (PZ409UA#ABA) tc4200,PM740(1.73),XGA,512MB(1),60GB(540
Spotlight customer reviews:
- Customer Rating:
- Summary: Great Laptop
- Comment: I had this laptop for almost 2 years. I dropped the laptop from ~3 feet high at least two times. Stepped on it three times with full or partial weight from one feet(forgot that I left it on the side of my bed before I fell asleep).
After each accident I thought it would not work --but it is still working great. I give this tablet a 5/5 for durability. Its shell is made of tough abs plastic(or some alloys), whatever it is, it is very durable. I shove this tablet into my bag without worrying too much about damaging it, because I know it is a hardy laptop.
This a reliable laptop, it is also fast and energy-efficient. The only downside now, is after 2 years, the battery dies out in 10 minutes.
I like the tablet features, but I hardly use it.
It's too bad they discontinued such a good laptop.
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- Summary: HP Tablet PC tc4200 bought refurbished for art, in 2010
- Comment: I bought this unit refurbished in 2010 about 4 years after the last review. It cost me only $366 as it is a few generations behind the curve. It arrived in pristine condition with a new battery AND an external cd/dvd drive, but with windows XP pro for refurbished computers service pack 3 (SP3 has all the tablet stuff built into it) instead of it's original XP for tablet PC's.
The Amazon distributer was Complete Distribution Solutions LLC. They were flawless in getting this to me quickly and well packaged.
At first everything worked great but it was slow. After deleting some unnecessary OS things, the on-screen keyboard and the pen operated keys on the bezel no longer worked, (Ok, something there was more necessary than I thought) but it was fast, and pen pressure still worked great. The on-screen keyboard software had been useless anyway, it worked perfectly right up until you tried to get it's output to go to the software running by pressing 'insert' which did... absolutely nothing (unless you cut with ctrl-c and pasted with ctrl-v, but since those keys were covered by the folded over screen... bam, head-desk) so I didn't miss that at all. But the bezel keys were actually useful, so I'm sort of still working the kinks out. Deleting those things was however my own fault.
The wireless networking worked great and I was connected to my router and online in moments. The Ethernet connection to my big linux box was almost as painless.
Everything that should install in XP that I've tried, (the GIMP, manga studio, Easy Painter Sai, Sketch-book Pro, Abiword, PC tools free anti-virus, Zone-Alarm), all of it has installed without a hitch. Possibly this is due to my having XP pro instead of XP tablet PC (tablet PC version is no longer distributed, SP3 contains all it's functions supposedly).
This is my first laptop and it seems to fill that generic role pretty well. It managed connecting to the internet wirelessly at McDonalds ok. And I now have 60 GB of extra storage for my camera should I want to take a 'lot' of video somewhere.
I bought this thing for drawing and painting as a 12.1 inch 'cintique' and it's working great for that. I have it connected to a USB km switch so my regular mouse and keyboard can control it (no need for any tablet PC special key non-sense). Only one art program I've ever tried works efficiently without keyboard access and that's autodesk's sketch-up pro. A lot of folks swear by it but I don't really like that one that much otherwise. Note I think a real key board is MANDATORY if you're going to do a lot of art and care about an efficient work flow. The on-screen keyboard and pen operated bezel keys worked fine the first several days, but neither could substitute for hotkeys on a real keyboard, they would be slower than using the menu's, even working perfectly. That's just not what they're for.
I'm shocked that no one is pushing these things as art tools. None of the wacom equipped tablet PC's are advertised that way. Some with other digitizers are. I wonder if it's part of Wacom's license agreement with the tablet PC manufacturers. They don't want a tablet PC license fee replacing what I am sure is a much heftier profit from sales of the $1000 and $2000 cintique's. I can't even see any dedicated art software on any of the new ones. How very odd.
Well, since It's my fault the extra buttons and on screen keyboard don't work and I'm sure I can fix that when I have time to do a custom re-install I'm giving this thing a 5 out of 5. Most XP laptops are slow out of the box due to stuff put on by the sales folks. I was just sloppy in taking it back off. - Customer Rating:
- Summary: The need for the optical drive
- Comment: When I noticed that the computer did not have an optical drive in the computer, I thought I had to buy it separately. The Seller I got mine from had the accessory for the optical drive with it. If you want this kind of computer MAKE SURE IT COMES WITH AN OPTICAL DRIVE AS AN ACCESSORY!! Now I just need to take the time to use the thing! I bought the tablet computer to draw on the computer screen instead of on an external tablet.
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- Summary: Excellend Tablet PC
- Comment: I got this tablet pc from HP last month and let tell you, this is a great tablet, it is fast, very light, the tablet function are useful and fun. You can navigate windows with the stylus.
- Customer Rating:
- Summary: HP TC4200
- Comment: The basic concept of this computer is excellent and I have found the tablet function to be useful and fun. However, managing software with it has been a nightmare. It is unclear whether the issue is XP or XP for Tablet PC, but I suspect it is the latter. Every time I have loaded software it hasn't worked - seriously, every time. I have had to do numerous workarounds, and still many programs are not working. HP has been very responsive, but it doesn't change the basic problem with the software. I do not recommend this machine nor XP for Tablet PC on any computer.