indy500 meets tablet pc’s running onenote
Engadget reports on a cool use of tablet pc’s and onenote in a blog about Fujitsu Tablet PCs and Microsoft OneNote at the Indy 500 .
“Julian Robertson, Chief Engineer for the #33 Target Toyota IndyCar, said racing the Target Racing team members prefer Tablet PCs to laptops when working in the pit lane at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where harsh conditions can severely task both engineers and their tools.
Our tablets are fully functional PCs, but they are lighter and easier to use, he said. “We save a lot of time writing on the screen with a stylus rather than keyboarding.
To make life at trackside easier, Ganassi Racing recently deployed Microsoft OneNote, a Tablet PC application that helps a highly mobile staff to pull together engineering data, meeting notes and data from other sources, according to Robertson.
He said OneNote’s file structure has allowed them to replace paper notebooks, and lends itself well to the particular challenge that all race teams face when setting up a race car. “