Tablet Configuration Information
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General Configuration
Hardware
There are three variants of the Tablet PC currently in use by the physics department, the older HP/Compaq tc1100, the HP/Compaq tc4200, and the HP/Compaq 2710p. The major differences between the three tablets are the color scheme, hard-drive size, video card, and processor.
Item | tc1100 | tc4200 | 2710p |
---|---|---|---|
Color Scheme | Silver | Black | Silver |
Hard-Drive | 40 GB | 60 GB | 100 GB |
Graphics Card | NVidia GeForce 4 Go | Intel 900 | Intel GM965/GL960 |
Processor | Intel Pentium M 753 1.20 GHz | Intel Pentium M 750 1.86 GHz | Intel Core 2 Duo 1.20 GHz (each) |
Display | 10.4" TFT XGA | 12.1" TFT XGA | 12.1" TFT VGA |
USB Ports | 2 | 3 | 2 |
TV Out | No | Yes | No |
Wireless Card | ipw2100 (a/b/g) | ipw2200 (b/g) | ipw4965 (a/g/n) |
Linux Partition Configuration
Unsupported Features
Under Linux there are a couple of tablet features that are unsupported, please see Linux Problems for details.
Configured Software
The Linux partition of the tablets has a large selection of software configured by default, including several proprietary packages that cannot be freely distributed or downloaded.
This is a preliminary list, please update as necessary. |
Proprietary Software
National Instruments LabVIEW Programming language for working with lab instruments
Wolfram's Mathematica Application for solving complex math analytically
Macromedia Flash Player Plug-in for accessing Macromedia Flash online content
NVidia Graphics Driver Driver for the NVidia GeForce 4 Go graphics card (tc1100 only)
IDS uEye Camera Driver Driver for the cameras used in the Modern Lab
Custom Software
uEye Graphical application for getting optical data from a camera
glScope Audio oscilloscope program
LabVIEW Oscilloscope Interface A LabVIEW interface for Tektronix Oscilloscope
Open-Source Software
Audacity Audio wave-form recorder/editor
gcc GNU compiler for C, C++, Fortran, Java, and other popular programming languages
GIMP Image manipulation program
GNOME Popular graphical desktop environment for Linux
Google Chrome Web Browser from Google
Gpaint MSPaint-like program
Gperiodic Interactive periodic table
Inkscape Vector drawing program
Kile LaTeX document editor for KDE
- With the LaCheck LaTeX syntax checker
Mozilla Firefox Standards-Compliant web browser
mplayer Media Player for Linux
mplayerplug-in Embedded plugin for playing media in mozilla web browsers
Octave Numerical analysis program similar to MatLab
- With the QtOctave GUI front-end for Octave
OpenOffice.org Workplace productivity suite
SANE Imaging drivers and applications for Linux (scanners, cameras, etc.)
Wine Windows compatibility layer
Xournal Tablet collaboration software
Notice: Very Incomplete List