Originally posted by James Kendrick, ZDNet
Tablets can be used for many tasks and taking handwritten notes is an important one for professionals in the field. Having a digital notepad can be a useful tool in many professions.
Windows 8 is nudging OEMs to produce a wide range of tablets including those with pen support for both digital note-taking (inking) and creating art. These tablets range from those with powerful performance (Core processors) to those seeking a balance between battery life and performance (Atom processors).
Professionals planning on using a tablet all day for inking only have one real option. Powerful tablets such as the Surface Pro only get 5 hours or less out of a battery between charges, and that eliminates them from consideration for such endurance note-taking.
Tablets with an Atom processor such as the ThinkPad Tablet 2 (reviewed here) get over 8 hours of use on a single charge. This will get users through a whole day of meetings or other activities where inking is in progress. Read more
One of the best things about owning a tablet is the huge number of cool apps you can download to it. There are a lot of broad use apps for the daily tasks we all must accomplish, and even better are the focused apps that help us do little things in our life that we like to do. It might be an app for HVAC technicians, or a way to sort the key news feeds that a financial services professional needs to review on a daily basis. 
Over the many years that PCs have been a key part of the IT infrastructure, most organizations have written their own application software to run on Windows and PCs. This is very common in the larger enterprises, and a surprising number of SMBs have custom versions of existing application platforms like Office or SQL Server that they run on Windows. As would be expected, many of the end users now want to run these applications on tablets.
These days, most of us probably know a sports fan that uses a tablet to keep up with their favorite team. What may not be quite as obvious is just how pervasive tablets are becoming among athletes, sports franchises and leagues. Here’s a sampling: 
Originally Posted by Sam Morris, Lenovo Blogs
