irsprint84 Posted January 8, 2011 Posted January 8, 2011 Samsung TX100 review: first look | PC Pro blog Not sure on price but hopefully something for the future
SimpleSi Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 @john There's a difference between the product and the girls advertising it
Tunster Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Waste of time trying make a cube fit a round hole. Unfortunately this a gimmick for Microsoft's laziness in designing a tablet based OS. Really don't understand the dual purpose and most likely; battery life will be poor.
EduTech Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 @john There's a difference between the product and the girls advertising it get in your own box! those girls are fine! Mmmm Yummy!
dhicks Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Not sure on price but hopefully something for the future Tempted - but the Dell flip-screen tablet/laptop is available now and would seem to double quite nicly as a radio alarm clock, and (even with the fancy stand) is £50 cheaper. Note that the above is regarding my own personal requirements, I have yet to see a tablet device that seems to be built for use in the classroom - hopefully there'll be something good at BETT. -- David Hicks
irsprint84 Posted January 9, 2011 Author Posted January 9, 2011 Waste of time trying make a cube fit a round hole. Unfortunately this a gimmick for Microsoft's laziness in designing a tablet based OS. Really don't understand the dual purpose and most likely; battery life will be poor. Just one example science class can take outside and do some experiment then flip to laptop to type up
bossman Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Just one example science class can take outside and do some experiment then flip to laptop to type up Nice piece of kit but.................. how long would you think they would last being taken outside for lessons with both the kids and the British weather? When will people learn that students, teachers and certain technology don't mix as in the students nor teachers don't take care of nice equipment such as this.
irsprint84 Posted January 9, 2011 Author Posted January 9, 2011 Nice piece of kit but.................. how long would you think they would last being taken outside for lessons with both the kids and the British weather? When will people learn that students, teachers and certain technology don't mix as in the students nor teachers don't take care of nice equipment such as this. Well I m in a Grammar School Joking aside the teaching staff here have had 60 netbooks for around a year and they're still in the condition they were since brought
bodminman Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Well I m in a Grammar School Joking aside the teaching staff here have had 60 netbooks for around a year and they're still in the condition they were since brought I used to work in a Grammar school and have to say that people used to take more care of equipment there than in the current state funded high school I work in now.
dhicks Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 I used to work in a Grammar school and have to say that people used to take more care of equipment there than in the current state funded high school I work in now. Either way, I think there's a need for a device specifically designed with education in mind. Most of the tablet devices available - the Samsung above, and the Dell I mentioned - are consumer devices, designed for responsible adults who will own the device in question and thus have no motivation to break it, either physically or via software. I'd be inclined to think that a good design for an education-orientated device would be a 7" tablet, the same size as an Amazon Kindle - my Kindle gets thrown in my bag and rattled around on the tube every morning, and is just the right size to carry around and whip out as needed. In fact, ideally I think I'd aim for a two-tablet configuration - two Kindle-sized 7" tablet devices inside a Kindle-like carry case (i.e. something the size of a paperback) that you can open up and either use like a book or like a laptop, with one tablet device acting as the keyboard for the other. Small enough to be lugged around school all day and robust enough to stand up to a bit of a battering. -- David Hicks
gwendes Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 Slightly OT... Be careful with the Kindle - my screen got broken and I don't remember doing anything horrible to it (and it's in one of their funky cases)
dhicks Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 Slightly OT... Be careful with the Kindle - my screen got broken and I don't remember doing anything horrible to it (and it's in one of their funky cases) Thanks, handy to know. Does imply that any student-owned device, no matter how robust, is going to get broken at some point, so something easy-to-repair would be ideal. The more I think about it, the more I converge on the same design as the OLPC... -- David Hicks
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