Two weeks after
ViewSonic received my
TabletPC for the second time, I
gave them a call for a status update. That was on
Wednesday. The rep told me that the machine should have been
shipped, but hadn't, and that she would call the repair folks for an
update. I called them again on Friday, and I was given the
tracking number. According to the
FedEx site, it will be back in
my eager palms on Monday!
I probably don't have to tell many of you how miserable I've been
without my baby. I am quite happy about the deal I got on
eBay
for my
Gateway laptop (
my Dell laptop died
the first time I shipped my
TPC to ViewSonic), but it is
not the equal of my
TabletPC. It requires effort on my part to switch from one
wireless network to another (I've tried several wireless cards).
It is incapable of using
Standby. It succeeds about half the time
in coming out of Hibernate. I may carry it many places I go, but
I don't take it everywhere, and when I do take it, most of the time I
leave it in the bag. My work-related documents, forms and notes are in
GoBinder,
which requires Windows XP, and my laptop has Windows 2000 (it does
have an XP Home Certificate of Authenticity, but no thanks!). The
worst part is that I'm rather forced to
use
paper, if I need to jot down a quick note here or there.
It is so strange to be sitting here wishing Monday would hurry up and
get here...but then, my on-call has been hell for the past couple of
days, so it's not like I've had much of a weekend, anyway.