See post #18.
I'm tempted to get one of these for school too. I've been using my M11x R2 for the past couple years and its been decent enough. But sometimes it's much easier or more practical to take notes with pen/pencil if you're drawing simple graphs or just making annotations on things. Can anyone speak to the stylus input for taking notes? Is the software pretty well laid out for it and is the digitizer/display fast and accurate?
Another thing I really don't like on my M11x is the display. I thought it was nice enough a few years ago when I got it, but now I just can't fit enough things onscreen at all to be productive. It's sad that small 5" phone displays now have higher resolution than this 11.1" display.
I also owned an m11x a few years back.
The software is just standard windows 8 software for notetaking. By default I'm not sure what people do but I'm sure there are some decent things out there (free and not).
The stylus/screen are as accurate as you're going to get for this kind of device. It's a wacom digitizer. If it's good enough for professional artistry then I would think your note taking would be fine.