The thing with Lenovo and Dell, they have the bullshit 3 cell battery. Many ignorantly buy netbooks not knowing the capacity of the battery.

I hope manufacturers will be clear as to what battery and what price for a given model. Half the time Brad gives quotes ie prices, it seems it is for the bullshit 3 cell battery.

The Lenovo X100was a good example. They potray coming out with a super light machine but give the crap 3 cell battery. Nobody wants a 3 cell battery.

The Sony X netbooks too mislead buyers. Though light, you get a mere 2 cell battery. And the very much more expensive option, you get another crappy battery albeit a 4 cell.

Brad, I am sure many readers want to know, mainly, what cell battery is given. And in addition, what capacity battery. Like the Dell Vostro V13, looks slim and sexy but its a crappy 37W 6 cell battery.

Does anyone know if this tablet is appropriate for taking notes in class using a stylus or pen? I don't know much about touchscreen technology but somebody mentioned that T91 is not suitable for taking notes (and I don't know if that is true or not either).

I cannot figure out the difference between a “passive digitizer” and an “active digitizer” and whether that has anything to do with capacitive vs resistive touchscreen

I can almost guarantee that this will be terrible for note taking.

A passive digitizer and a resistive touch screen are the same thing. what this means is the screen takes pressure as its input method. That means that anything that touches the screen can activate it, including your palm. The Asus t91MT has this type of screen but has software that rejects your palm so you can write like you're writing on normal paper…in theory it ends up slowing down the screen's ability to read your writing, distorting and skipping in your writing.

An active digitizer is a touch screen that activates only when a special pen is near or touching the screen. It responds much faster than resistive screens and means you can write on the screen with the same speed and position as regular pen and paper. You cannot user your finger to activate the touchscreen.

Capacitive is similar to an active digitizer but only accepts input from an organic object (ie. your finger). This is what is in the iPhone and it is very responsive and ideal for multimedia oriented touch screens.

Many tablets combine both an active digitizer and a capacitive/resistive screen to give dual functionality. However, this compromises screen quality and is very expensive.

I believe this convertible will have a sensitive resistive screen or an optional upgrade to a capacitive screen.

I'm sorry but this device is known to have a capacitive screen…

And as usual you forget to include the most important info in the specs – screen resolution.

netbook has slower cpus than laptop, but cheaper the most time. Netbook may be useful to people who just use surfing, editing doc. or whatever that doesn't require hard working such as 3D game or such.

Dead wrong. The “free Internet” is getting ever more free. What once were freeware/shareware apps are now going either completely free (open source) or commercial. The middle zone may be dying but free software definitely isn't. As someone who refuses to buy into micro-payments I've found a great deal of awesome software that is free and open-source, licensed under a public license. The only exception is Steam, but I only use that because Valve's first-party games are totally worth buying, I don't use it for other apps/games. The way I see it, if it isn't going to sell for much it'll do more good as an open source application than a budget program (plus the markets are flooded with budget apps, so yours just gets lost in the mix). At least open-source means you get your app to more users and people who can learn from/reuse from your app have the ability to do so.

Netbooks are designed special for internet web browsing only, well most them are. They are small and easier to carry, they are also designed to have lower clock cpus and a smaller LCD screen that consumes lesser amount of battery power compared to that of full sized laptops. Netbooks can and will last longer than laptops running on 2 cores on battery power.

I have the Lenovo tablet and love it. However, I am not able to write notes into it. I do not think it responds to a stylus. The battery however lasts all day… about ten hours.