That would have been awesome! But when I think of a tablet Chinese support, Acer naturally comes up to my mind. I am 80% sure that they are the first one to design a tablet for the Chinese market. On the other hand, Lenovo may not be big on the idea of tablet at all.
By the way, I will need a PC desktop for some professional applications soon. But I am holding on to my purchase plan as long as possible to see if Lenovo would come up with any new marketing campaign in the States.
I use a Tablet PC and have Chinese Simplified as well as English handwriting recognition installed. It's built-in if you have XP Service Pack 2 installed, or for earlier versions you can install a seperate "Tablet PC Recogniser Pack". (the SP 2 stuff is much much better though, so I'd recommend that. Run Windows Update to get it if you don't have it already
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Thanks for the info! I've seen tablet/stylus software packages for the desktop that do a pretty good job of recognizing cursive characters; can WinXP's built-in software handle those decently, or is it usually best to stick with 楷体?
As for learning - Wenlin is my solution to everything, though I'm kind of skeptical of software-as-learning-tool stuff in general. Still, it's got a kickass dictionary built in, and a primitive drawing input feature of its own, so I suppose you could use it to look up an unfamiliar character by drawing it in...
it's not too good at cursive, however i personally can't write cursive chinese so i'm going on third-hand information here :)
i can already use it to look up characters at www.mandarintools.com (or anywhere else) so no real need for the dictionary in wenlin. i was more looking for something that would drill me on the characters - let me know if i got a stroke wrong, show me stroke order, etc... basic stuff :)
books and rote-learning are ooh so tedious. *sigh*
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My brick for more jades.
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By the way, I will need a PC desktop for some professional applications soon. But I am holding on to my purchase plan as long as possible to see if Lenovo would come up with any new marketing campaign in the States.
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(and besides, my mac powerbook rawks!)
but... what is up with newsinchinese.com???
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do you know if their software is mac compliant?
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As for learning - Wenlin is my solution to everything, though I'm kind of skeptical of software-as-learning-tool stuff in general. Still, it's got a kickass dictionary built in, and a primitive drawing input feature of its own, so I suppose you could use it to look up an unfamiliar character by drawing it in...
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i can already use it to look up characters at www.mandarintools.com (or anywhere else) so no real need for the dictionary in wenlin. i was more looking for something that would drill me on the characters - let me know if i got a stroke wrong, show me stroke order, etc... basic stuff :)
books and rote-learning are ooh so tedious. *sigh*
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