[Lowerbounds, Upperbounds] » Tablet PC http://magic.aladdin.cs.cmu.edu Algorithms are everywhere. Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:58:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9-rare en hourly 1 Two Patches for X41 Tablet http://magic.aladdin.cs.cmu.edu/2006/11/09/two-patches-for-x41-tablet/ http://magic.aladdin.cs.cmu.edu/2006/11/09/two-patches-for-x41-tablet/#comments Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:24:08 +0000 Maverick Woo http://magic.aladdin.cs.cmu.edu/?p=259 Recently I have finally switched to a ThinkPad X41 Tablet for my everyday computing need. I said “finally” because I actually had the machine since more than a year ago (Sept 2005), but it had more than a couple issues that kept me from relying on it solely. I remember being asked on a trip why I brought two laptops along. :P

The good news is that Microsoft has fixed two of my issues over the summer. If you are using a X41 tablet as well (already there are five in my group), here they are:

  • Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API during hibernation: hot fix 909095
  • The mouse pointer or pen pointer behavior is irregular in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005: hot fix 920295

The latter is particularly important since it makes the tablet a lot more responsive when the CPU is under load. I can’t imagine how I could have lived with a “jumpy” cursor for over a year…

Now if only someone makes a fast and reliable 1.8″ harddrive…

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