Blog:: Craig Pringle

i-toyzi-toyzi-toyz provided me with a Motion Computing LS800 LS800 and I am using that in Boston. I'm still sitting in Espresso Royale and I've had three people come up and ask about the tablet in the last 30 mins. I've got my demo down pat :)
Either Americans are more curious and more willing to come up and ask or the Ls800 is more of a head turner. I'm betting it is a bit of both! Either way it is a good thing!

You don't get glass but it runs fairly well. I have a GB of RAM and it runs about the same as XP did. I do have some issues, though.
No Brightness control has some implications for battery life
With the out-of-the-box driver you don't get rotation either. If you install the Latest XP driver from the HP site then you get rotation
More on this later.

I'm sitting in my new favorite cafe in Boston. Espresso Royale offers Great Coffee and free wifi! What more could a jetlagged geek ask for? It you need a caffeine and or connectivity fix in Boston you way want to check it out. (It's in Newbury street)

I'm in the Red Carpet lounge in Terminal 7 of LAX. Just crossed paths with Peter O'Dowd an exchange MVP based in Wellington. Were both on our way to Boston for TechEd - But we are on different flights... Almost there now!

This Friday I'm off to Boston for TechEd 2006.  Needless to say I can't wait!

I leave Wellington at 4:30pm NZ time, which is about 8:30pm on Thursday Boston time.  I arrive in Boston at 5:40am on Saturday.  Yikes, that is a long trip.  Clearly I am going to need some strong coffee that day - anyone where I can get a good espresso in Boston?

If you are heading to TechEd drop me an email - I'm always keen to meet up with like minded tablet types!

If you are testing Vista Beta 2 then you may be interested in this:
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The free subscription is valid for a year, including updates and web based support. Good stuff CA.

I'm home - in body anyway!
Had a great time in Singapore and I have much to blog about.
More Soon...

I've just arrived in Singapore.  I'm here for a few days - and I have some really cool activities planned.

Tomorrow I am going to visit Heulab to see their "Classroom of the Future" showcase.  I'm getting a guided tour and I'm really looking forward to it.  I have seen the Heulab products in action before, including the flagship product Fun with Virtual Classroom.  It is an amazing tool that allows teachers to empower students to colaborate without relequishing control.  Best of all it has been written from the ground up to take advantage of the Tablet PC.

Friday and Saturday I am attending Vista readiness labs being run by Microsoft for selected influencers.  I'll be blogging more about that later.

Sunday I don't fly out until 8PM at night so I intend to have a good poke around Singapore before I go.

On Saturday I blogged Telecom NZ to show tablets with EVDO
Now Vodafone and Lenovo New Zealand Partner to Deliver Embedded 3G Connectivity
One thing for sure, NZ is a great place to be a Mobile Computer user!
Via Geekzone

John Tokash has installed Vista on a Tablet kiosk EO.
the has two great posts. The first details how he installed Vista on an eo
In a follow up post he gives More about Vista on the TabletKiosk eo.
"It is very responsive! I dont have Aero running, of course.
I dont recall if I had to install the audio driver or if it found it without help, but its working.
When installing the digitizer, make sure to choose the b_stage driver from your D drive. A_stage doesnt work at all. Even b_stage, though, doesnt calibrate perfectly."