The Paperless Solution that Works (Score 1)

At the risk of being flamed... TABLET PC. If the idea is to reduce paper - to keep electronic copies - wow, is it ever the way to go. I'm a University student and I've just recently got a tablet - being a "mature" student, my experience at the different companies I've worked at (and for which, I've all used laptops) makes the Tablet's abilities overshadow the faster processors or gizmos I've seen in laptops. Over the past academic year (i.e. 8 months), I've accumulated over a bookshelf's (one shelf) worth of NOTES! It's crazy - all of them, written, one by one. Getting this will certainly reduce my paper-load, not to mention the back-breaking bag-load whilst travelling around campus. Granted, the laptop isn't the lightest to begin with - but I have notes - electronic and scanned (there's no escaping writing some things - like through homework or seminars) - with me all the time. I'm less likely to print out my notes as well - while I definitely favour paper over computer-screen, a tablet pc fits the way I read (letter-size), and its all centralized. Plus, the thing actually works. Kudos to the MS folks that thought of this. I can write, draw, convert-to-text... Translation's wonderful (I print when I write anyhow). There's a whole myriad of applications for this, and I haven't yet dug into the uses for technical material such as engineering blueprints.