Tablet Configuration Information

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.

Tablet Differences

Item	tc1100	tc4200	2710p	2740p
Silver | Black | Silver | Silver |-	40 GB | 60 GB | 100 GB | 250 GB |-	NVidia GeForce 4 Go | Intel 900 | Intel GM965/GL960 | Intel graphics |-	Intel Pentium M 753 1.20 GHz | Intel Pentium M 750 1.86 GHz | Intel Core 2 Duo 1.20 GHz (each) | Intel Core i5 M 540 2.53 GHz (each) |-	(?) | (?) | 2 GB | 4 GB |-	10.4" TFT XGA | 12.1" TFT XGA | 12.1" TFT VGA | 12.1" LED WXGA |-	2 | 3 | 2 | 3 |-	No | Yes | No | No |-	ipw2100 (a/b/g) | ipw2200 (b/g) | ipw4965 (a/g/n) | ipw(?) (a/b/g/n) | } Linux Partition Configuration Detailed notes on the Linux 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 With the NLP Solver addon for solving non-linear equations SANE Imaging drivers and applications for Linux (scanners, cameras, etc.) Wine Windows compatibility layer Xournal Tablet collaboration software Notice: Very Incomplete List