I also know someone who said the handwriting function is useless. This seems to be a recurring theme.

I agree that Tablet PCs are not yet optimized for the legal world. A lawyer friend of mine bought a Tablet PC about a year ago, and I ran into him recently and asked him how he was enjoying it (initially he raved about it). He said he still liked it, but that he rarely used the Tablet functionality. Basically, he said it was a laptop computer that he occasionally flipped the screen around to show a client something, but even that was a rare occurence. He said the handwritting function was useless. If he just kept the notes as graphics then they weren't much good because he couldn't read his own handwriting later or search for things. If he OCR'd the writing the results were poor and it took extra effort to do that, which he wasn't inclined to do. Bottom line: he likes the laptop function, and since he types well enough he doesn't really see the benefit of the Tablet data entry.