In the market. (Score 0)

I'm looking for a laptop/tablet PC right now. Really, all I'm going to do on it is watch DVDs or other video files, take notes and do school work. I'm mostly looking for as light as I can get with a linkup to my desktop to transfer files. I was looking at a tablet PC for it's smallness and ability to do handwriting. Anyone have any advice? Is the handwriting recognition as bad as ZDnet claims?