I broke down and purchased myself a Toshiba M200 Portege as a late Christmas present to myself. My main development machine had been giving me serious trouble lately so I was shopping around for a replacement. I’ve wanted to pick up a Tablet for a while but had resisted the urge since it wasn’t “time” for another computer. So at the end of December I decided to head on over to Toshiba Direct and place my order. As a side note I think I’d go through CDW rather then Toshiba Direct. It took much longer for my order to be fulfilled as it was coming from there facilities in China. CDW offers a bunch of different pre-built models so there really isn’t much benefit from going with Toshiba Direct unless you happen to get to them when their running a good deal.
My M200 will be my main development machine, replacing my Dell Inspiron 8600. I got my M200 pretty loaded up (2ghz CPU and 1.5 G RAM) for that reason. I can say one thing for sure, it kicks my old machines’ ass as far as performance. The one concern I had was the smaller 12.1” screen, as opposed to the 15” screen on my old laptop. All I can say is I don’t even notice that I lost about 3”. The display is very crisp, and I love the overall size of the laptop. The only thing I need to get used to is the layout of the keyboard.
I’ve been using my M200 primarily in notebook mode but have toyed around in Tablet mode a bit. I still need to play around more to get comfortable with “inking”. I’m hoping to do a little Tablet PC development, I just need a couple of my other side projects to be wrapped up. As I explore more I’ll be sure to provide updates… :-)