[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] redviper666:
Since I have office 2013 I thought I'd give some info on this matter.

First: Onenote MX doesn't work well with the spen on my ativ. Others have told me that this is something I screwed up when I reset the machine to take out all the samsung apps. It sucks but what can you do?

Onenote 2013 on the other hand is incredible. One thing I like to do is put it in fullscreen mode and use it like that. I would like to have radial menus from MX but baring that I am very happy. In my opinion you want to put the most used commands for inking into the home ribbon in a custom group. So I have Ink Styles, Draw with Touch, Ink Equation, Ink, Ink to Math, Ink to test, Lock drawing mode, snap to grid, drawing, shapes and delete in my custom group.

http://sdrv.ms/PeofHv

I like to do curating of notes on my desktop so I have two notebooks that I always keep on the tablet and sync back to my desktop. That lets me take advantage of both inking and keyboard.

Handwriting recognition is amazing. I have really really terrible hand writing. Most people can't read or understand my text.

http://sdrv.ms/S2UEyK

It got one word wrong. I think it will be some time before it learns enough to get my "r" and "a" correct, but I can't see it ever working for that "t". Still not bad.

One of the best things in Onenote 2013 is when you have a tablet (like the ativ), the pen and finger stuff works in synergy. You can zoom, scroll, pan the page with your fingers and write with pen. If you single tap with your finger on the screen a small circle appears as the text insertion caret. You can type text at this point. Or you can drag that to do a lasso select. Very awesome.

Lasso performance on the ativ is a little slow though, likely due to the transparency but its very usable. Onenote itself is fast as all hell, but not using MX means that I can't do snap :( Which is a pity because metro snap may be the greatest thing ever on a tablet (after IE's flip ahead and drag to go back and forward).

Overall I have a few concerns, particularly with the weak gpu, but for my main purpose (note taking and digital organization) this is an incredible machine.

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Its odd but other than inking lagging on the metro version of Onenote (hopefully fixed with a driver update), spen usage is a lot better than on the note. Part of the reason is that I am left handed and so the way I hold my pen lends itself to the wider form factor. I think right handed people might feel differently but I have no point of comparison.

The Ativ Smart PC has full legacy app support. Someone on Verge asked me to do a benchmark for FF11. It ran (albeit slowly). I don't forsee any significant gaming on this tablet, but in terms of UI and interaction its super smooth. Other than office I have 7zip installed for the desktop, and a metro app called 8zip for metro apps.

Now this is with the caveat that I don't have the keyboard dock for the ativ. Unfortunately I can't find it online or at staples or best buy. It would be awesome if samsung would either put in a harddisk on the dock (best case) or atleast a battery, that would be great. The asus vivo smart is also very interesting since it allows for pen input. Next summer I'll probably upgrade my work laptop to either the asus transformer or the surface pro with haswell. Right now though, the core i chips are missing the Si0x sleep states and that is a pity. Until haswell comes out I will not switch away from the atom tablets, but once it does the improvements with Wintel 8 will be just incredible.

Even today its a perfectly good tablet though, don't get my wrong. Just cant be a solo machine for anything but travelling.