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• Vista drivers for the Toshiba M200 Tablet

  Finally! Corey found m200 drivers for Vista that were released on 3/20/2007 on the Swiss support site. The page is not English, but as Corey said it's pretty easy to figure out. (The drivers themselves have english versions). That said, here are the direct links: Bluetooth Monitor Config Free Display Driver Management Console SD Utilities Sound Driver Tablet Access Code Logon Utility Tablet PC Extension Package Touch Pad Driver Value Added Package I installed the other day and so far everything is great (i.e., as it was on Windows XP). Full 32-bit at 1400x1050 with (automatic) screen rotation, sleep/hibernate work properly, and the Tablet PC buttons work again. I have to admit, I was worried we really would never get these - after all, Toshiba doesn't always have the best track record for supporting products it doesn't care about anymore . Still, it would anger me more that they had them and chose to withhold them than not spending the resources to port them in the first place. Posted Mar 28 2007, 02:38 PM by Tim with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Technology, Tablet PC, Vista, Microsoft

• Windows SideShow in a bag

  This is very, very cool, and I want one now . Imagine, as Kevin puts it, seeing e-mails, contact info or RSS feeds without removing your device from the bag. Simply awesome. The only thing that concerns me is that the Eleksen Wearable Display Module will apparently "offer a gigabyte of memory". Personally, I would rather something that communicated over WiFi and/or Bluetooth with Vista's Away Mode . Posted Jan 17 2007, 09:18 PM by Tim with | with no comments Filed under: Technology, Gadgets, Productivity, Tablet PC, Vista, Microsoft

• Is Vista ready? Maybe, but I still have 2 big issues

  Scoble agrees that Vista isn't ready yet . I'm still undecided. I'm not running the absolute latest (hopefully this weekend) on my tablet, though I definitely agree with Alex that recent builds are a vast improvement , even from Beta 2. His big complaint is driver support, and I'm not sure that means the operating system is not ready. Sean demonstrates just one example of what people might actually get excited about. The Tablet experience, especially when combined with Office 2007, is drastically improved. I've finally found software to mount ISOs within Vista . The performance is acceptable on my M200 (1.8ghz Centrino, 1.5GB RAM). There are two minor but very annoying bugs I'm dealing with now: I can't connect to my EVDO connection after coming out of hibernation. Vista occasionally "loses" my self-signed certificate on my home server, which prevents Outlook RPC over HTTPS from working until I go back and reinstall the certificate (which requires administrative... Posted Aug 02 2006, 09:09 AM by Tim with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Technology, Gadgets, Tablet PC, Vista, Microsoft