New Toshiba M700 – Not impressed

So we moved to the new m700 (crummy low light camera phone picture above) at work and I’ve got to say I’m not impressed. Sure it’s much faster than the m400 and yeah the vista drivers actually work and the battery seems to just keep on going, but beyond that in almost every way it’s a step down from the old machine:

• The wide-screen display is actually smaller (shorter) and lower res (1280×800) than the old machine
• I don’t like the soft-touch keyboard they’ve used on the new machine
• The support clips for the display actually feel like they’re breaking when you twist the display into tablet mode
• The physical volume dial is actually a software volume nob, so you never actually know if you’ve turned the volume all the way down (useful for when using the tablet with one-note in meetings)
• The wide-screen display has finger-touch capability now, and in return for that the pen sensing capability of the screen seems to have gone too sensitive. I now get random strokes all over the place and can’t seem to turn down the sensitivity.
• I’ve turned the finger touch capability off because it kept stuffing up documents I was showing to other people (while touching the screen)
• I’ve tried to calibrate the pen 100 times and it still doesn’t draw directly beneath the pen tip when writing notes
• The annoying camera software starts up automatically and doesn’t seem to have a context menu, control panel applet or any other method of disabling the autostart for the always-on camera toolbar overlay. And no, it’s not int he start up folder.

End rant.