Over the few years I was using my asus netbook to pull up PDF, online wiki, and xls sheets to assist in gaming. It came in handy for looking up PDF for a specific rule, or utilizing my xls sheet of my warforged juggernaut attacks (they can get complicated) or even document kills, loot and other note taking in the game.
Well it died a few weeks ago. To replace my laptop I purchased 14 inch HP Pavillion g4-1215dx. Great price for $349. Unfortunately it is bigger than my netbook and the battery life was meh... kinda half of the 6-7 hours I had on my Asus 1000he.
At the same time my son was given an iPad from my parents. For a week I played with it and tried to get the books on it, but it was such a pain I gave up. I really did not like iOS on the tablet. On the phone it works well but the tablet seems too linear for me. I know the iPad has a whole universe of apps and is the king of tablet sales. For those who use the iPad, can you open multiple PDF and shuffle between them with out reopening them?
I broke down and went back to best Buy and purchased an HP Touchpad for $149 (they would only sell it at that price if you had purchased an HP computer).
I played with it for a few days and instantly loved how the OS worked. You can truly multitask with this OS. You can have multiple PDF open, xls files, and what ever. With webOS you can stack cards of open files or programs and then you can slide them around, open them and shuffle between them. Here is a picture of how I have set up (see attached file). One stack is my psychic warrior Dante and the XPH and CPH. Next to it is my Artificer and a Crystal Keep PDF for infusions, and off screen is my Warforged Juggernaut with his XLS sheet to calculate his attacks. If I open other PDF, I can keep them on a separate stack. To open the file you just tap the card and it expands to full screen and hitting the home button or swipe the bottom of the screen goes back to the desktop. If you want to see more about webOS just hit youtube and see it yourself.
I also took the liberty installing Cyanogen Mod 7 Alpha 2 and 3 on the HP Touchpad. Cool thing is you can dual boot between either OS and they share the same virtual SD card in the device so the PDF files are shared between both OS's I use and Android phone and the mod works well on the Touchpad. You can open multiple files and shuffle between them but I can not open more than one PDF at a time with out using multiple readers, which is silly to do. Android does have lots of apps but for using it for my gaming purpose just did not work.
The one major drawback is that HP has discontinued the Touchpad and the app market is , well meak. So I may just use the webOS for game night and then Android the rest of the week. Hopefully when Icecream Sandwich gets created for the the Touchpad it can do what I want. There is also a glimmer of hope HP may do something right and keep webOS and create a newer version.
The one drawback on webOS is there is no index or table of contents you can manipulate as you can on a PC. So, I have to resort to looking at the index or table of content in the actually PDF.
Well, lets here your experience of what tablet you use and how you use it.