Thinkpad Tablet?
I am considering buying a Thinkpad Tablet. It stands out among the crowd of fairly generic, similar featured Android tablets on account of its NTrig digitizer and active stylus. This makes it a useful tool for note taking with handwriting recognition, sketching, etc... Reviews are somewhat mixed, but they all seem to agree that it is a solid piece of hardware.
At around $330 (+ $30 for the stylus), I think it is well priced for what it is. My only concern is that it is a dual core Tegra 2 based tablet. The newer tablets are Tegra 3, which seems to be a substantial improvement, but I question whether that difference really shows up more in general apps or just gaming. Lenovo has committed to an ICS/4.0 update this month. At the pace this market is moving, will purchasing older technology bite me in the long run?
On the other hand, Samsung will release the Galaxy Note 10.1 with similar stylus capabilities in the next few months which is rumored to be quad-core, but I can't imagine that it will be cheap either.
What do you think? Should I go for it or just resist the whole tablet trend and spend the same money on an ultra-portable notebook?
At around $330 (+ $30 for the stylus), I think it is well priced for what it is. My only concern is that it is a dual core Tegra 2 based tablet. The newer tablets are Tegra 3, which seems to be a substantial improvement, but I question whether that difference really shows up more in general apps or just gaming. Lenovo has committed to an ICS/4.0 update this month. At the pace this market is moving, will purchasing older technology bite me in the long run?
On the other hand, Samsung will release the Galaxy Note 10.1 with similar stylus capabilities in the next few months which is rumored to be quad-core, but I can't imagine that it will be cheap either.
What do you think? Should I go for it or just resist the whole tablet trend and spend the same money on an ultra-portable notebook?