Take one tablet to improve mobility
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Short story is that I am adding a Lenovo ThinkPad X41 tablet to my mobile office, and I like it

The tablet PC is an ideal walking around device, because you don't need to open it to use it and with an EV-DO card installed I can keep my connection to my company's Exchange server at all hours of the day.

I've been using the ThinkPad X41 tablet for three weeks. It's a loaner from Lenovo, but I'd happily buy one of these because it is light and well-designed. The way the battery is built into the case, which lets me get a firm hold on the computer when using it, is just one of the simple features that has made this thing a lot of fun to use. No other portable computer I've used has been designed to be held like this one, and at 3.5 pounds it is the lightest PC I've used that didn't make me feel like I was missing important features, such as a full-sized keyboard. I like the way the monitor snaps to the rest of the case when using it as a tablet, while the weight and balance of the whole system is more pleasing than other tablets I've tried

My list of essential tablet software to add to the ThinkPad:

• ActiveWords, which lets you enter commands to run scripts using the pen. It's one reason I've wanted to use a tablet since I saw Buzz Bruggeman demo the tablet version at PC Forum in 2005.
• OneNote, from Microsoft, an Office add-on that lets you mark up documents with the pen, as well as take notes. If you have to use Office, OneNote will make people jealous of your cool pen computer.
• Firefox, because. The tabbed browsing is excellent with the pen. IE 7 isn't bad, either, but I prefer greater ecological diversity on my computer.