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Posted - Jan 24 2005 : 05:01:36 AM
Just as a word of warning (because someone said earlier about it) rotating the physical monitor is not a good plan. In the case of CRT's the tube is not designed to work sideways and the ray guns get a little confused after a while, or so I'm lead to believe!
Besides that the actual unit is bound to be all kinds of unsteady!
If you have a spare computer than Maxivista would be the way to go. You can change your Tablet from portrait to landscape and your 2nd monitor stays the same.
Yes, Maxivista is an option. From the review I saw it works well when both pc's are on wired ethernet but is noticeably slower if either is wireless--that's a LOT of pixels to move.
I *finally* got to hold and play with a slate (Motion)--now I REALLY have the bug. I saw their docking station too and have discovered another place on my desk where it can go. It helps so much to see something in person! I was thinking a rectangular footprint, i.e. a "box" the width of tablet and depth of docking station. But that isn't really needed. I've got a spot beside my external monitor where the docking station base can slide back several inches under a shelf before the back of the tablet touches the shelf--loss of work area would be very little. That method should work for any of the slate or hybrid docking stations. And the plus would be that the tablet screen would always be usable which wouldn't be true with my under desk slider answer.
The only tablet that won't fit there is the T4010 and it's notebook style port replicator. Maybe Fujitsu will eventually offer a true "tablet-style" docking station for this unit in addition to the notebook one. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would prefer the T4010 to be in a rotateable station while at the desk--you'd have to use an external keyboard even if you didn't use an external monitor--but the rotateability and angle-adjustments would be worth it.
T4010 convertible - port replicator question 
Posted - Jan 24 2005 : 05:01:36 AM
I was thinking a rectangular footprint, i.e. a "box" the width of tablet and depth of docking station. But that isn't really needed. I've got a spot beside my external monitor where the docking station base can slide back several inches under a shelf before the back of the tablet touches the shelf--loss of work area would be very little. That method should work for any of the slate or hybrid docking stations. And the plus would be that the tablet screen would always be usable which wouldn't be true with my under desk slider answer.
