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Measuring 33mm thick by 284mm wide by 236mm deep and weighing 2.1kg, the dark grey tc4200 tablet is on a par with Toshiba's Portégé M200 convertible tablet. Add in the 255g AC adaptor and the tc4200 hits the road with a reasonable travel weight of 2.3kg. The key to its success is that its LCD lid swivels clockwise and easily folds flat for write-and-run operations; an adequate stylus pops out of the tablet's side. Unlike any other tablet, the tc4200 offers the same processor, hard drive, memory and software as the ultraportable HP Compaq nc4200 notebook PC, which should make deploying it in a corporate environment easier.
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Because it is meant to be used as a tablet with the keyboard out of reach, the tc4200 has a convenient jog dial on the side that helps whiz through long Web pages or PowerPoint files. The glass writing surface, however, is a little too smooth for our taste; there's not quite enough resistance on the stylus to make you feel like you're writing naturally. The system does offer excellent screen controls for rotating between Landscape and Portrait modes, bringing up the character-input screen and opening HP's exclusive Qmenu software, which consolidates all the configuration data you could ever want. The tc4200 has a light-sensor system that continually adjusts the display's brightness. While we like the push-button volume controls, the system's single speaker does better with the spoken word than it does with music.
Inside the HP Compaq tc4200's case is a mostly up-to-date system that marks the start of the third generation of tablets. Our test machine came with a 1.8GHz Pentium M Sonoma processor and 512MB of 400MHz RAM, expandable up to 2GB -- although we have to wonder why you'd need that much memory in a tablet PC. While the system lacks an internal optical drive, it does have a high-speed 5,400rpm, 60GB hard drive.
Forget about dedicated video memory -- the system uses Intel's integrated 915GM graphics engine, which borrows up to 128MB of main system memory. The 12.1-inch XGA screen produces bright and clear images, but pales in comparison to the 14-inch display on the admittedly heavier Acer TravelMate C301XCi. In addition to its infrared window, the tc4200 has Bluetooth and an Intel 802.11b/g radio and a pair of lid-mounted antennas; in our anecdotal tests, it was able to stay in contact 35 meters from our base station -- a little farther than average.