Why Tablet PC?

I've been thinking for years now about getting a tablet pc. It never felt so right to get it as much as now. At the moment I'm continuing my studies in the UK doing undergraduates bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and at the same time a postgraduate masters degree in Climate Change and Sustainable Development. Without a computer I'm lost as both programs depend heavily on materials available on the web and the course portal.

Downloading and printing huge number of notes and journals made me think about how easy life would be if I could have everything in one file to carry around with me. Sure a normal laptop will do the job... but imagine being able to download, read, annotate, and distribute pdfs easily in the class and have them with all the handwritten class notes organized in one folder that I can easily upload to my online storage as a backup or to simply view it from any other place!
This tablet pc seems to have potential for improving my learning experience and add more accessibility to the information I need and provide more organizing that is needed.

In Kuwait, before coming to the UK, I was working as an assistant for a PhD student doing field surveys at Kuwait beaches. The survey included taking notes of all observations, writing down hundreds of measurements, doing calculations and taking more information. This was a difficult task as we had to write down all of the data on location and then go through the back breaking and time wasting process of inputting them again into excel. If a tablet pc was available on location, we would have saved plenty of time and having instant charts and comparisons of results would speed up the research pace.

Through this blog I hope to keep track of this tablet pc and see how it has improved productivity and increased my outcome!