HP Pavilion Tx2000 Tablet PC meets Dirty Jobs
HP recently released the new Tx2000 which is in very similar to the entry level Tx1000 Tablet PC.
The major drawback of the Tx1000 was the lack of a digitising tablet. The Tx1000 only has a touch screen, which is not very practical in a full size tablet PC because in normal writing posture, your hand will create multiple touch points on the screen, making it difficult to use.
Hat’s off to HP who listened and built a digitising tablet and a touch screen into the Tx2000. The tablet pen is a battery powered model and not a Wacom pressure sensitive digitiser, no doubt to keep the price down.
Correction: This Tablet PC does use a Wacom capacitive touch digitising system. The pen does not use a battery and the touch screen function works with a nice light touch.
HP have released a video series for the launch featuring Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs (Discovery channel).
Not really sure if it’ll sell more Tx2000s but it’s a bit of fun anyway!
Check out the full video series here.
HP Pavilion Tx2000 Key Features:
- Full on entertainment machine
- Looks pretty cool
- AMD Turion™ 64 TL-64 2.20 GHz Processor
- 2Gb DDR2 RAM
- 12″ Wide screen display
- Touch screen and active digitizer
- NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 6150
- 8X DVD±RW Double Layer, Lightscribe
- Weight: 1.96 kg
We’ll have them in the shop soon for AUD $2199.00 Inc GST.
The Tx2000 is a great way for home users to get started with a Tablet PC.
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:55 pm
I recently bought a HP TX2029AU, which I found very slick. The drawbacks so far being, in order of significance to me:
1. Screen graphics stay on after they should disappear, and Internet Explorer seems to jam with a dull screen on occassion, and also jam up on idle preventing you from typing in a search query for about 5 seconds - this could be a Vista bug - very frustrating.
2. Fan noise; seems to vary for no apparent reason, even when idle reading a webpage.
3. When you rotate the screen in tablet mode, it sometimes jumps quickly between rotations and then jams up. Having a few seconds delay before automatically rotating would fix this I suspect (sounds like a HP patch is needed).
4. If they battery goes flat and you re power-up, Windows resumes, but the wireless won’t reconnect, even if you try to repair connection. However, if you turn the wireless off & on again, it works again (sound like a HP patch is needed).
5. High gloss cover - shows fingerprints.
6. Shiny screen - hard to see with strong light behind you.
Other than the above its a great device, with a good keyboard feel & touchpad. Hopefully a few Miscrosoft & HP updates will address most of the issues I’ve mentioned above.