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"How is this still a thing?!"

Because the alternative costs $900 and doesn't fit in your pocket. Oh, I get what you're saying, I loved OneNote back when I had the old TabletPC. It's the best thing going, IMO. But I'm not spending that kind of money to run an OS I have no other use for, just to take notes. Make a $300 machine with a good digitizer that runs nothing but OneNote and I'd buy two.

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The Asus EeePad was the best thing I ever used as a notebook replacement. I had to buy it from China and change the display text to English when I got it, but the screen felt like paper, the digitizer was Wacom, and the battery life was excellent. It would sync with Evernote (I wish it synced with OneNote). I could read and annotate ebooks and PDFs. There were two styluses, and a place to store them both. You could write normally, since the screen did not respond to touch (only the pen). The black and white screen was okay for notes, but if you hooked it to your PC, it became a full Wacom tablet for Photoshop etc.

Unfortunately, they never released it in the US, dropped Evernote support a while back, and have completely discontinued it. Did I mention that importing from China through a reseller and with shipping included it only cost $250?

I think you mean the Asus Eee Note? http://www.asus.com/Eee_Family/Eee_Note_EA800/

And dammit, that looks perfect for notetaking/sketching/etc. :(

Yup, EeeNote. Sorry! It really was great, but it lost all use for me when Evernote sync was deprecated. The barrier to getting my files off became too high (move them to a microsd card, then move them to my computer with an adapter I always lose).

It looks like they are still available on eBay.

> Make a $300 machine with a good digitizer that runs nothing but OneNote and I'd buy two

Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 [1]

I have to physically restrain myself from buying one of these just about every time I walk into the local electronics stores. Samsung has actually done a really nice job, it has a Maths mode that recognises handwriting as formulas which insanely actually works ...

[1] http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxynote/note8.0/

The new Nvidia Tegra 4 tablet supports "directstylus" and i'm wondering if Microsoft could enable this with the new Surface 2.

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