The document discusses tablet PCs, which are portable computers that can be used with a digital pen for writing. There are two main types - convertible models that have screens that flip and attach to keyboards, and slate-style models that are like tablets without integrated keyboards. Tablet PCs run full versions of Windows and have a range of uses including digital note-taking, reading documents, and using specialized applications in fields like art, music, and healthcare. While they provide benefits over traditional notebooks, tablet PCs also have some disadvantages such as limited screen sizes and additional costs.

1. Tablet PC
Presented By
Dadhichi Kumar
J.Govinda
Bhuwan Bisht
Javed Mohd.

2. What is a Tablet PC ?
• It is an optimized version of Desktop
Pc and light weight Notebook Pc.
• An Advanced version of the latest
IT- Technology.
• An Extension of OS and Hardware.

3. Types of Tablet Pc
SLATE-STYLE MODEL
CONVERTIBLE MODEL
SLATE-STYLE MODEL
CONVERTIBLE MODEL CONVERTIBLE MODEL

4. Convertible Model
• Convertible Model
• Like conventional notebook computers
• With attached keyboards and screens that
turn and flip
• to cover the keyboards and have the touch-
sensitive
• screens face up for pen user interface

5. Slate-Style Model
• More lightweight units
• Without integrated keyboards (use optional
detachable
• USB-connected or wireless keyboards
• Other external peripherals typically required

6. Technical Feasibility
• 10” to 14” screen, mostly 1024x768 Resolution.
• Mostly 1.0-1.6 GHz Pentium M Processor.
• $300+ more than non-tablet notebook.
• Detachable keyboard.
• 512 MB RAM.
• DVD.
• SXGA.
• 60 - 64Gb Flash Drive

7. Uses Of Tablet Pc
Supports real-time writing; everything does not need to be
done in advance, as in PowerPoint:
• Some material difficult to do in PowerPoint (e.g.
equations, Chinese)
• Material can still be prepared in advance
Can archive lecture content, don’t need tablet PC to view
Face toward class instead of toward the board.
No messy chalk, markers, or erasers needed
• Can return to material that would be erased on a board
• But do need a projector

8. Uses Of Tablet Pc (Cont.)
• Reading digital content: Web pages, Acrobat
and Word documents, eBooks, etc.
• Taking notes at meetings, classrooms, hallways,
anywhere-anytime ,working notes in searchable
format.
• Comfortable computing: walk-around , standing,
reclining position, laying down, resting on lap,
held with one hand.
• Collaborative capabilities via integrated wireless
networking and collaborative apps like Groove.

9. Tablet Pc In Higher Education
• Both, students and teachers are mobile users.
• Revolutionary digital note-taking in the classroom:
take, keep, organize, search and manipulate digital
notes in one’s own handwriting, inc. diagrams and
doodles .
• Windows Journal provides unlimited anytime-editable
sheets of paper to capture what is on the blackboard .
• Students expected to be attracted by sleek designs,
portable form factors and better ergonomics .
• You cannot hold a laptop with one hand, while talking
to a professor, in the hallway, and jotting down a note
Teachers might be lured to mark-up live presentations.

10. Entering Data
Stylus serves as a mouse
Ink - when application supports it
Text Input Panel (TIP) when application does not support ink
Handwriting recognition
Speech recognition

11. Art
Pen is
pressure-
sensitive on
most models.
Alias
Sketchbook
Pro.

12. Music
Composition Tool, Developed By Brown
University.

13. Health Care
Tablet PC’s increasingly popular
among physicians
Access to EMR (Electronic
Medical Records) over the Tablet
and wireless LAN
View, update chart, digital
images, write Rx, send to
billing all while with the
patient
“Replacement of
handwritten charts and
scattered medical files with a
unified system of computer
records.”

14. Discipline-Specific Applications
• Tablet PC applications for
specific disciplines are just
emerging
• Mathematics
– xThink calculator
– Upcoming Math Journal
product
• Physics
– Magic Paper

15. General Applications
Planning, Contacts, Calendaring
•Franklin Covey Tablet Planner
• organize handwritten or electronic
notes, tasks, calendar, contacts,
Word, PowerPoint, etc.
Microsoft OneNote
•Tool to organize handwritten notes
• Less intrusive than typing in
meetings or conferences.
•Store meeting notes in one place
instead of on paper in file
folders notes are searchable every
where.

16. GIS & Mapping
•GIS and Mapping
•Ruggedized Tablet PC for Military uses

17. Applications for Children
Lots of child-oriented applications:
•Math
•Art, painting
•Learning to write in cursive
•Games

18. Summary of Benefits
• Many benefits of Tablet PC technology for
educators and administrators
– Digital Ink more powerful than a blackboard
• Don’t need erasers, pens, or chalk
– Collaboration possible
– Some content more easily created
– Content can be archived and broadcast
– Discipline-specific tools emerging (e.g. Math Journal)
– General tools already available (e.g. Outlook)
– Tablet PC just as capable as any notebook, plus more

19. Issues With Tablet Pc..
• Some disadvantages of Tablet Technology
– Keyboards mostly small
– Screen resolution limited on most models to 1024x768
– Software applications limited, but growing
– Handwriting recognition average
– Clicking a little tricky
– More expensive
– Requires projector in classroom, may have difficulty using,
setting up, smaller writing area than large
black/whiteboard
– Learning curve, around four days
– Most require external CD-ROM
– Display viewing angles often poor

20. Bibliography
• Microsoft Tablet PC home
• http://www.tabletpc.com
• Tablet PC Talk
• http://www.tabletpctalk.com
• Tablet PC hardware
• http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/tabletpc/evaluation/
tours/default.asp
• 3rd-party applications
• http://www.tabletpctalk.com/faqs/apps.html
• Microsoft Tablet PC newsgroup
• http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/tabletpc/using/news
groups/default.asp
• TabletPCHome.com -- http://www.tabletpchome.com

21. THANK YOU