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"Clear storage" to re-use expensive trial software

I have some 60 day trial medical software that costs a pretty penny. By using the "clear storage" function, the WM6 registry etc should be returned to factory fresh state, right?
I'll use a virtual machine to install the software to my Wing. That should work right?
NS

yes, in theory, it should work.
However, it's like killing babies. Don't do it.
Support the developers, they really need it.
And i'm being nice.

fzzyrn said:
yes, in theory, it should work.
However, it's like killing babies. Don't do it.
Support the developers, they really need it.
And i'm being nice.
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LOL!! That's classic!

what's the softwar in question if you don't mind me asking?

eh i probably shouldn't have said it was possible in the first place. Oh well, now that its been quoted, no changing.

fzzyrn said:
eh i probably shouldn't have said it was possible in the first place. Oh well, now that its been quoted, no changing.
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LOL, its not big deal, commen sense really. I think he already knew it was possible...i guess he(maybe she but I doubt it) was just looking for a little conformation

neptune said:
i guess he(maybe she but I doubt it)
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haha! how true it is
The software in question is at www.epocrates.com
If you want to make yourself feel a little better about helping me to not support this developer (which I DO appreciate, even though I was 99% sure it would work anyway)
1. this program costs $199 per year
2. Over half a million health care professionals use their products (they aren't a struggling, almost-certain-to-fail startup)
3. as a 3rd year medical student, I'm just under $200,000 in debt and before I graduate you can tack another $60k or more onto that
4. I may someday be caring for the medical needs of you or someone in your Monkeysphere
Thanks again, xda rulez!
NS

wow thats quite an expensive subscription...but I guess its worth it for an important up to date database such as this.

NotShorty said:
haha! how true it is
The software in question is at www.epocrates.com
If you want to make yourself feel a little better about helping me to not support this developer (which I DO appreciate, even though I was 99% sure it would work anyway)
1. this program costs $199 per year
2. Over half a million health care professionals use their products (they aren't a struggling, almost-certain-to-fail startup)
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We will remind you of this when you have had a few years of practice under your belt and we don't pay YOUR bill. I mean after all, after a few years and many hundreds of patients, you won't be a struggling start up operation either.

I'm actually gonna quote shakespeare.
Whats in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.

Reminds me of a joke:
Question: What do you call a doctor with a "c" average in med school?
Answer: A doctor.

xavier6303 said:
Reminds me of a joke:
Question: What do you call a doctor with a "c" average in med school?
Answer: A doctor.
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lol
that reminds me of another joke
What's the best job a student with a C average can get in America?
Answer: A President
*cough* [email protected]$$ GeorgeWBush *cough*

Gadget Show Channel 5 UK - iphone v Touch Diamond

As above - Chl 5 8pm tonight

i doubt this will be usefull or give you the result you hope for.
I doubt they will even know, let alone try, about flashing and the massive advantages this gives. I doubt they will touch on the various 3rd party apps that really make this phone and instead, will focus on a standard "factory fit" which, lets face it, is a bit crap. Will they cover the fact that this phone is an exellent business tool (oh how i miss TV/VGA out ... )
I also doubt they will mention the Iphones failings, its 2.0 software disaster, its "push" (yeerrr right!) email or the fact people are having there entire contacts and calendars being wiped out in front of them or again that they STILL can't change batteries
I see them going for the Iphone.

Who knows, Germans have choosen Diamond as a best phone on the world with iPhone as a 2nd with quite big adventage. Who knows, maybe those people will make some big review and will compare those phones in every aspect.

nutcracker2 said:
Who knows, Germans have choosen Diamond as a best phone on the world with iPhone as a 2nd with quite big adventage. Who knows, maybe those people will make some big review and will compare those phones in every aspect.
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What do you mean "Germans"? Do you mean the entire population voted on it or a selected "Gadget Show" like TV program?

http://www.inside-handy.de/news/12140.html
1500 of german inside-handy.de users choosen Diamond as most desirable phone of the year. I was wrong, not the best, but most desirable

The Gadget Show IMO is only of use to morons - the sort who go to Currys etc and believe the 'salesmen' when they say they need a £80 monster hdmi cable. They never set things up properly and i'll guarantee they haven't flashed the roms etc. I know you shouldn't really need to but thats my point, gadget show is for people who don't know nothing!

nutcracker2 said:
http://www.inside-handy.de/news/12140.html
1500 of german inside-handy.de users choosen Diamond as most desirable phone of the year. I was wrong, not the best, but most desirable
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... but the poll was done in 12.06.2008 with the old iPhone and not with 3G!

nokmond said:
The Gadget Show IMO is only of use to morons - the sort who go to Currys etc and believe the 'salesmen' when they say they need a £80 monster hdmi cable. They never set things up properly and i'll guarantee they haven't flashed the roms etc. I know you shouldn't really need to but thats my point, gadget show is for people who don't know nothing!
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I watch the gadget show because some of it well put together and you can tell the producers/presenters do know what they are talking about even if they do have to dumb it down for a maintream tv audience somewhat.
As regards the flashing issue, I doubt they will go into it in detail but why should they? Most users don't know about it and if you did tell them they probably wouldnt want to be bothered with it anyway. Its a big time sink just for a setting up a mobile, which should really have been done by HTC in the first place.

Check out this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybaPS0NLwFQ
Most of the people they ask dont even realise about all the 3rd party apps or different roms,all they seem interested in is the way it looks.

owz206 said:
Check out this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybaPS0NLwFQ
Most of the people they ask dont even realise about all the 3rd party apps or different roms,all they seem interested in is the way it looks.
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Thanks for the link, i hadn't realised before how crappy that show is, are they trying to be Top Gear or something! They're doing camera shots of the pavement that are so quick the phones blurred! And if the presenter emphasised his words anymore he'd explode.
In that video, that kind of test is always going to be about looks, if you even try to use the phone you wont know how because youve only had 5 seconds with it so all they can compare is looks, size, weight etc and go on what the presenters say.

Two things immediately spring to mind on watching the clip - Apple has spent a fortune on promoting the iphone, so that anyone who watches TV will have an idea how it works - if the touch screen from the Diamond had been given similar video tutorials on primetime TV, no doubt a lot of people would find the interface just as user friendly.
The other factor is the Apple effect - people feel that Apple has a brand value akin to Richard Branson's woolly jumpers - all cuddly and vaguely environmental/hippy chic. I prefer to be apart from the crowds, not queueing to buy on the basis of marketing hype.

Well I'm definitely sending my Diamond back. The one they had on the gadget show had a hardware keyboard and a Nokia label. Mine has neither.

ericsson68 said:
Well I'm definitely sending my Diamond back. The one they had on the gadget show had a hardware keyboard and a Nokia label. Mine has neither.
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LOL yeah i know i watched it too..... check out the youtube link for the web tv review (previous posts)
The review was crap anyway, people like the look of the iphone, but thats it.
None of the functionality of the Diamond was really talked about, very poor review. (if you could even call it that !)

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The Gadget Show IMO is only of use to morons - the sort who go to Currys etc and believe the 'salesmen' when they say they need a £80 monster hdmi cable. They never set things up properly and i'll guarantee they haven't flashed the roms etc. I know you shouldn't really need to but thats my point, gadget show is for people who don't know nothing!
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I disagree the Gadget Show is for people who don not know anything - I watch it over the internet and I find this a useful program indeed. But I do disagree with some of the shows findings on best products...

nubbin said:
Two things immediately spring to mind on watching the clip - Apple has spent a fortune on promoting the iphone, so that anyone who watches TV will have an idea how it works - if the touch screen from the Diamond had been given similar video tutorials on primetime TV, no doubt a lot of people would find the interface just as user friendly.
The other factor is the Apple effect - people feel that Apple has a brand value akin to Richard Branson's woolly jumpers - all cuddly and vaguely environmental/hippy chic. I prefer to be apart from the crowds, not queueing to buy on the basis of marketing hype.
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"marketing hype" something Apple Computers are very good at G

Of the bat:
-The show looks cheesy as ****, something apple users tend to like!
-The 60 year old host, talking bout technology? Not good! (no harm intended to any 60 year old member in the forum)
And Ill always do this on any thread that contains the words FruityPhone:
FruitPhone SUCKS!!!!
Remeber, second best they are.

the show is usually quite good, but after watching this they did not give the htc a proper review. I mean come on if you put a iphone in front of everyone they know what it is straight away! Seems like the Apple advertising is really sucessful.
I dont mind if our Diamond isnt as big as iphone to be honest.
After all do you want everyone to have the same phone as you! I call it a small prestige club and I am honored to have be in it.

Sergio PC said:
Of the bat:
-The show looks cheesy as ****, something apple users tend to like!
-The 60 year old host, talking bout technology? Not good! (no harm intended to any 60 year old member in the forum)
And Ill always do this on any thread that contains the words FruityPhone:
FruitPhone SUCKS!!!!
Remeber, second best they are.
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Could you possibly be any more offensive with your outdated and ageist remark?
He's not even 60.
Idiot.

kidd78 said:
the show is usually quite good, but after watching this they did not give the htc a proper review. ......
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Did you watch the same show as me? I only saw the IPhone versus a Nokia....
I suppose you are right in a sense, they didn't give the HTC a proper review ... as they didnt have one!

I stopped watching the gadget show a few years ago because i get the feeling that they really dont know what they are talking about, the reveiws and tests that they do are completley stupid and of course they are given more money to say good things about certain products.
There was an episode i flicked onto the other month, and they had picked out a bunch of HD TV's an said they were gonna get the best experts in the country to give them a thouogh testing to see which one was the best! So they took them to the tech guys (pc worlds attempt at making ppl think that their getting good advice!) who stood about 2 foot away from the screens an said that none of them were particaully good and then said the most expencive one wa no good because it was a Plasma set and could suffer from screen burn!
In short the show is biased to whoever pays them the most money to give the best review!!!1!!!

Screaming, the sounds of screaming!

Hehehehe, I just had to post this...
My phone carrier is iWireless, in Iowa, USA. We are offered the Pantech Duo (not sure what number) for like $40US with a two year contract. I have a Kaiser, and my wife has a converted Tilt... we're not interested in a 'new' phone, but it is time to re-sign my contract, and I figured I'd look at what back-up/spare phones I could get cheap.
I wanted to do some research about the Pantech Duo, and see what was known about it. I first searched here, only to find it is shunned (I don't blame you), and that there USED to be a few forums for it, but they seem to have aged out...
So, I went to the Pantech site. What I read there I couldn't just ignore...
Here is the whole page, but you can't read it well...
So, here is the close-up...
Worth a laugh...

I lol'd....

Hahaha love it, had to check the pantech site to confirm, http://www.pantechusa.com/phones theres the link if anyone else wants to check it.
Great find though haha
Sam

It has been changed now, but I still go back to this post to get a good laugh when I need it.

That's too funny LOL

epic win FTW!

Haha nice. I don't even know what they possibly could've meant.

Ha ha ha..
LoL
Nice work dude

Thanks!
err, Um, Hey, Thanks!
(apparently our posts have to have more than 10 letters... odd)

Heheheh. Just saw it on a second visit to this thread. Looks like some web designer lost his job (or forgot to remove filler text!)

LMFAO. I bet he still has his job.

It is odd, my dad insists that it was done deliberatly to make us all take notice of them, and therefore be more prone to buy from them... He just doesn't get that in this case, the phone quality doesn't support the 'bad publicity is STILL publicity' theory...
I'm sure it was a case of someone taking the un-finished slides and either running late on his due date to turn it in, or the text was corrected and not saved to the right file before submission.

There was another example of this not too long ago. I can't find the link at the moment but the guys entire conversation was saved into the advertisement about lingerie he was buying for his gf.

Jailbroken Color Nook Ebay?!!?!?!

You have GOT to be kidding me!
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Unlocked-Ja...469?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27b723a68d
Until B&N pushes an update to unroot it...wow...
Here's the best part.
The options are just opening up for this hot holiday item, right now you can play a large amount of games and other locked out Apps Barnes & Noble don't want you turning their lower priced ereader into a full fledged android 2.2 tablet.
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2.2...lol..I should email the seller to show me a screen cap of 2.2 on there and running Flash.

Plus he mentions giving you access to parts of the android app store. Um...which part would that be exactly?? And all for only $400! Wow. Pity some poor sucker is going to fall for this.

Well, he's mostly right about the "full fledged android tablet" part

HeroHTC said:
2.2...lol..I should email the seller to show me a screen cap of 2.2 on there and running Flash.
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He won't... cause these are unopened in original packaging and stuff...

devis said:
He won't... cause these are unopened in original packaging and stuff...
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Oh, you mean that he only buys them AFTER someone pays...
Pretty slick, but man I could NEVER do that to ANYONE.

Sad thing is, this creep is probably stalking these forums right now and even reading this post.

If he is, he better put some change in the Cyanogen tip jar.

Well, i can't really blame him though... he's only catering to the "ignorant, can't read simple directions" or the lazy bunch out there.

Ugh. You'd think that someone attempting to sell products would have a better grasp of grammar and spelling.
They don't exactly mention that they do anything more than just rooting the device. Some poor sap is going to buy one, receive it, fire it up and look for Angry Birds and cry. Like others have said, they'll think that it's running Android 2.2 and has access to Android Market. Fail.
He's from Milton, WI. I've been there.

lol, all his feedback is as a buyer, and some from the same vendor I believe (as feedback is a copy/paste) and he touts "100% feedback." Wow. I hope he loses money when someone complains and PayPal takes their money back.

[RANT]Why do the current tablets SUCK?

I'm shopping around for a new tablet, well I should preface with this. I have lusted after convertible tablets and slate tablets since I was 14, and luckily in 2008, I got the dell xt followed by the dell xt2. And now I am in the helm to shop for a new tablet. And then I settled on this pretty piece of machinery for my next purchase - the lenovo x220t. And it looks great...
So, happy ending. Seems like a great buy right? NO! I buy this and I am issued with the same crap I've been getting for years. An actual tablet OS. Oh yes someone chimed in - install android on it, you will love it. Er, no I don't. If I wanted a phone OS, I would get a phone OS. I hate the fact that if tablets are discussed, some brain dead ignoramus talks about oh get the ipad, or get the samsung galaxy or the motorola xoom.
And granted the xoom, by the hardware is mediocre at best that is further limited by a less than stellar android honeycomb in which the developers have done some of the stupidest things in terms of creating a lack of UX/UI Standard. Yes, the fricking "stage" looks nice, but in simple tasks like opening or closing the browser tabs, deleting email, programs, it totally and completely SUCKS. Yeah, the iOS for ipad is further refined in several instances, but if I wanted to buy a phone OS, I would get a phone. I can at least say, android is taking a step in a better direction by dividing the two OSes to make different developmental gains.
But what about the current crop of OSes now? Ubuntu, while fast, sucks, even with that pathetic god forsaken unity bull on it. Mac OSX, don't get me started! Windows 7, while fast, also sucks. And if you customize it for finger friendly operations, you get the ugliest pieces of crap I have personally ever seen. Maybe I should try the overlays. Yes been there tried that. It's like putting makeup on a pig. It doesn't hide the fact that it's still a pig and it surely don't make it pretty!
So at the end of this rant, what is a person to do who doesn't want god awful honeycomb or the laughable iOS or the pee poor big game changers. Wait, no really. That's the mythical answer. Wait. And that answer ticks me off! It's almost been 10 years since convertibles came around to be affordable and even more since the tablet actually began. In all that time, not one single OS can fit for a tablet paradigm? That mixes support for desktop applications that is stylish?
Who in the holy hell can save us from this tablet dominated trite that we have been exposed to for years!?

I'll add some gasoline to this fire. Wait for a good tablet or learn to bend your tastes a bit. Nothing is perfect.
-If ignorance is bliss why aren't you smiling?-

twitch153 said:
I'll add some gasoline to this fire. Wait for a good tablet or learn to bend your tastes a bit. Nothing is perfect.
-If ignorance is bliss why aren't you smiling?-
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don't ya think a 10 year wait is long enough? I surely do!
I mean for once I can say well at least specs and processors are catching up to notebooks (I mean god back in the day tablets were far worse).
Bend my tastes? By trying everything under the sun and every iteration of what is considered tablet what taste am I supposed to bend to? Oh the one when I eat crap and say it tastes like gold nay I say nay!

Haha! XD Well personally I don't like tablets all like that. That's why I have my phone, and a Laptop.
And I know this is a little off topic but have you ever watched Big O?
-If ignorance is bliss why aren't you smiling?-

twitch153 said:
Haha! XD Well personally I don't like tablets all like that. That's why I have my phone, and a Laptop.
And I know this is a little off topic but have you ever watched Big O?
-If ignorance is bliss why aren't you smiling?-
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yessir!
ugh 10 characters pos

I thought so. That's where you got your user from I assume? They still air it on Adult Swim!
But back on topic, if you know all the tablets don't suit you then why buy them? That's like buying an iphone when you are clearly an apple user haha
-If ignorance is bliss why aren't you smiling?-

clinical psychology student
we write a lot of notes
transcribing them from notepad to typing them digitally would take too long. One note cuts the time in half. Plus paperless medium, it gives me some options

So why not just use a laptop? What advantages do you have using a tablet that a laptop won't give you?
-If ignorance is bliss why aren't you smiling?-

twitch153 said:
So why not just use a laptop? What advantages do you have using a tablet that a laptop won't give you?
-If ignorance is bliss why aren't you smiling?-
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clinical psychology student
we write a lot of notes
transcribing them from notepad to typing them digitally would take too long. One note cuts the time in half. Plus paperless medium, it gives me some options
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That's why

I guess But you're making a sacrifice either way so that's the choice you chose to make when you chose to chose a tablet
-If ignorance is bliss why aren't you smiling?-

oh the tablet I like its everything else and lack of options. Give me something...more i guess

Lol. I love how its just the OP and the Banana posting in this thread of randomness. Lol Lol Lol Lol

Purple Drama Llama said:
Lol. I love how its just the OP and the Banana posting in this thread of randomness. Lol Lol Lol Lol
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adding to the random banana drama llama
ugh that didn't rhyme...

Purple Drama Llama said:
Lol. I love how its just the OP and the Banana posting in this thread of randomness. Lol Lol Lol Lol
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Oh em eff gosh! You're alive!
-If ignorance is bliss why aren't you smiling?-

On Air : Angry computer nerd - live on xda

@OP: when you do find a good tablet for that use, let me know. My sister is going onto her clinical studies in about a year and her netbook is just too bulky (!)
I suppose an iPad would be good, but I don't wanna let her fall into the trap of Apple so soon in her life.

sakai4eva said:
@OP: when you do find a good tablet for that use, let me know. My sister is going onto her clinical studies in about a year and her netbook is just too bulky (!)
I suppose an iPad would be good, but I don't wanna let her fall into the trap of Apple so soon in her life.
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Well get a smaller netbook ...
What does she need it for ?
Pretty much Tablets have 0 data input value , and even less without win 7 , its a useless form factor to begin with

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Well get a smaller netbook ...
What does she need it for ?
Pretty much Tablets have 0 data input value , and even less without win 7 , its a useless form factor to begin with
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zero data input value?
er...I just not only tutored a calc student with my tablet but just synced my 20 pages of notes via onenote that has easily converted it to text. I record my lectures on my tablet and save from the lack of a good ui/ux, this has been extremely reliable data input. And that's been there since windows xp...
In fact, spoke with a friend of mine whose an acupuncturist who lives on his tablet. Patient records, signatures, everything is on that hd and stored in some digital format.
@sakai4eva
as far as which to get, if she is doing something medical, skyscape is an indispensable block of programs that truly do help. Often I read the psychiatric information just for jokes and giggles. But for an MD student, it is fantastic. For anything else, the ipad is a joke and it's a waste of time for functional. Same can be said for the awful galaxy.
In terms of tablet pcs, what many have been crying for (myself included) is a better gpu. I am hoping the x220t sandies i7 processors will provide a better integrated gpu chip. However I will be stuck with n trig...the starting price for the x220t is 1100 USD (rumored) but probably for my specs it can easily become 2k.
Also, feel sorry for us. We can't "work" while doing this. Some schools offer assistanceships mine doesn't...damn santa barbara...

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Well get a smaller netbook ...
What does she need it for ?
Pretty much Tablets have 0 data input value , and even less without win 7 , its a useless form factor to begin with
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Hope you understand some of this:
1. She has to keep running around the hospital for the entire shift.
2. She needs to write down notes for the patient's illness and the teaching doctor's explanation
3. She needs to re-read all this when she gets back and compare with her textbooks
While a netbook could have filled her needs, it is very impractical to carry it around AND type while balancing drugs, stethoscope, patient's charts, etc. A tablet would work like a notepad with the ability to write immediately on the surface (as well as sketching) without using the keyboard for data entry.
Lightweight, easy to carry, long(ish) battery life, ease of use will be key factors here. I would have bought an iPad if she started now, or possibly a PlayBook when/if it comes out right.
domineus said:
zero data input value?
er...I just not only tutored a calc student with my tablet but just synced my 20 pages of notes via onenote that has easily converted it to text. I record my lectures on my tablet and save from the lack of a good ui/ux, this has been extremely reliable data input. And that's been there since windows xp...
In fact, spoke with a friend of mine whose an acupuncturist who lives on his tablet. Patient records, signatures, everything is on that hd and stored in some digital format.
@sakai4eva
as far as which to get, if she is doing something medical, skyscape is an indispensable block of programs that truly do help. Often I read the psychiatric information just for jokes and giggles. But for an MD student, it is fantastic. For anything else, the ipad is a joke and it's a waste of time for functional. Same can be said for the awful galaxy.
In terms of tablet pcs, what many have been crying for (myself included) is a better gpu. I am hoping the x220t sandies i7 processors will provide a better integrated gpu chip. However I will be stuck with n trig...the starting price for the x220t is 1100 USD (rumored) but probably for my specs it can easily become 2k.
Also, feel sorry for us. We can't "work" while doing this. Some schools offer assistanceships mine doesn't...damn santa barbara...
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Thanks for the tip on skyscape. If/when she gets her smartphone (no sponsorship here), I'll make sure she gets it.
I don't think she will need a unit with a "powerful" GPU per se, so I'm pretty much settled on the iPad unless the PlayBook turns out to be soooo much better.
As for the tablet, it'll be paid by myself or my father. She's gonna owe me big time for this

playbook may not have skyscape support
and for writing anything the ipad SUCKS
onenote has a much better system especially with cloud integration. Not to toot windows horn, but onenote is genius. That is bar none one of the best note taking programs out there. With acrobat pro, the combinations are endless. I can totally say that.
If form factor is an issue, ipad is definitely smaller than any tablet I am referring to, but not nearly as robust. The dell xt2 is about 2.5 lbs, with the hp 2740p about 3 pounds. If it is just for notes, I would go for the xt2 and you can catch one on ebay for around the same price as an ipad.