Tablet PCs

[im.thatoneguy]

Has anyone ever tried Avid on a tablet PC? I know avid claims it's really picky about its OS, but I'm looking at possibly buying a tabletPC and would like to be able to edit on location.

 

[rsbush]

I run AXP 4.6 on a Dell Inspiron 9300, Pentium M 2.00, 2 gigs RAM, NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800, 7200rpm Internal drive with no problems at all.

 

[Owen]

What OS is on that? XP Media Center?

 

[rsbush]

XP Professional, Service Pack 2

 

[im.thatoneguy]

See that's where I get confused. Technically Tablet PCs run on XP Tablet edition. But to Avid is that effectively XP Pro?

 

[Owen]

That's what I was wondering. I messed with a tablet yesterday at the store and checked the OS and it said XP Media Center Edition... maybe you can install XP Pro on it as well.

 

[Dmitry Kichenko]

Of course you can. It's just a PC with a screen. They used to install XP Tablet PC edition on those, so now that they install MCE, it's quite obvious you can install anything on it. I would even try installing OSX, to be honest. Who needs the stinky windows

 

[im.thatoneguy]

Well because I love that stinky windows and hate OSX.

OSX also has no pen/tablet functionality, which would completely void the point of buying a tablet PC.

 

[Dmitry Kichenko]

Oh yes.. I forgot about that . But maybe there are some third party apps, who knows. I'd have to search.

 

[sbryan]

Stick with a full size notebook PC.

I use a tablet PC for school, and it can't do much else (even with a memory upgrade)