Compaq TC1000

Close-up screenshot of my Compaq TC1000. A seller refurbished tablet computer that I recently got from eBay for $140 as a birthday gift four weeks ago. This photo features the tablet computer operating as a slate with the keyboard detached and in 768 x 1024 portrait format. The desktop features my Mechapuff and Mechapuff R4 character done by ~tersinc as a 5,555 kiriban gift. You can view the better version of the portrait screenshot here: img543.imageshack.us/img543/67…

The Compaq TC1000 is meant to replace the aging Toshiba Tecra 720CDT laptop that I used for over a year, but I don't know if it's going to stick too much longer. The internal hard drive on this tablet is going bad and I expect that the hard drive is going to fail soon. The disk currently contains almost 700 reallocated sectors and 8 sectors that have recently gone bad.

Either I mishandled the unit when I first got it, the hard disk itself has manufacturing defects or the hard disk controller is going bad.

Here are the current specs for the Compaq TC1000:

1 GHz Transmeta Cruesoe processor
10.4" TFT display capable touchscreen display of displaying 1024 x 768 @ 16 million colors
30 GB Toshiba MK3018GAS (ATA-100) hard drive
1 GB SDRAM (24 MB is reserved for the Transmeta Cruesoe procesor)
NVIDIA GeForce2 Go video chipset with 16 MB video SDRAM
Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Version 2005

Other features include:
Detachable keyboard with pointing stick, jog dial and tablet pen
2 x USB 2.0 port
Type I/II PCMCIA card slot and a CompactFlash slot
15 pin HD D-Sub VGA port for connecting a external VGA monitor

The stylus digitizer takes 1 AAAA batteries...so in case the battery dies down, it can be easily replaced.

The Compaq TC1000 is a hybrid tablet computer that was made by Compaq in August 2002 before it was purchased by Hewlett-Packard. The TC1000 is such a popular product and has a cult following. The unit has won numerous industrial design awards in 2003.

Sorry if this is a bad screenshot, but I'll try to fix and update it soon.

Does anyone ever use the Compaq TC1000 anymore?

Update: Earlier today, I wiped the data off the hard drive as either the hard drive itself or the hard drive controller is about to fail. I will most likely have to find ways how to get it replaced soon. I most importantly backed up the i386 folder onto one of my USB hard drives incase I need to reinstall Windows XP on the tablet computer.

It's been weeks since I abandoned the TC1000. I may eventually abandon the TC1000 for a while for a different tablet. Right now, I'm using the Asus G1S-B1 laptop for the time being.

Drawing (c) 2012 by ~tersinc
Mechapuff (c) 2003, 2006, 2010 by ~ppgrainbow
Mechapuff R4 (c) 2011 by ~ppgrainbow