[Hase]

I need some advice... does anyone have experience with drawing on a tablet pc? are they comparable in definition and sensitivity to regular tablets (been using an intuos so far)? how are the screens in regards to colors and contrast?

the two models that seem the most interesting at the moment are the Scribbler (sc-2000) from electrovaya, mostly for battery life and screen size, and the TC1100 from HP, which seems like an excellent machine with a good (although slightly smaller) screen....

I�d appreciate any insights you might have on this

[Drunken Monkey]

I made a coworker who has one install the wacom penabled drivers on it today to enable pressure sensitivity, and played around in photoshop a bit. Its quite natural draing utility. Sensitivity is not as high as wacom, and you have to press pretty hard to register the hardest pen pressure. Hard enough to make me nervous thinking if its going to hold for long, but you can probably adjust it. Its very easy to draw with it... you kinda forget its not paper. Vilppu has the same toshiba model and he was showing his line drawings on it few weeks ago. Hard to tell it wasn't on paper. So if you only plan to draw its a pretty usefull thing i guess... along with being a laptop.

Painting is another matter. The colors change drastically with minor view angle changes. The screen is also very poor quality, compared to say my LCD. I gave up trying to pick up half-tones. I can't imagine it being even remotely usable in outside conditions. Another thing is the speed. Those machines are very battery life oriented so they are slow, and have low ram, slow HD, bleak screen. Painting with opacity tuned brushes on it is painful. It felt like 10 seconds on short brush stroke... just completely useless. CPU throgh the roof, HD going off.

So the conclusion is... its a pretty cool ink drawing pad. It was designed as one. Forget about painting with it.

Just my opinion. Hope it helps.
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[tayete]

I would add they are slow as ...

Not for drawing, I mean. When you use them as a notepad, calcsheet, word processor, etc... a tabletPC PIV may be compared to a Pentium (a single Pentium) processor. Our technique told me it was because its SO has to "translate" what you write with your own letter, to something understandable by it.

I guess there are two long years before its technology can be purchased with no fear.
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[Guro]

TABLET PC

Toshiba Portege M200 Centrino
Pentium M 1.6 GHz - 12.1" TFT-Aktivmatrix (1400 x 1050)
NVidia GeForce FX Go5200 - AGP 4x
HDD 60 GB

Not bad
...but I could not find the information about level of pressure sensitivity...
maybe anyone have such information?
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[YVerloc]

256 levels. All the Tablet PC's that use the Wacom portable digitiser (and that's almost all of them) have 256 levels of pressure sensitivity.

I've got a Fujitsu ST4000 series, with outdoor viewable screen. It's not bad. Only 10.4 inch screen though, and it's very cramped. The colors on it are crap. But it's stil very useful for sketching outdoors and blocking in values and basic color.

YV

[Dekard]

Long time no postie..


Best bang for the buck currently is the

Gateway M275X at
1799.99

Pentium M 1.4GHz
14.1 inch screen.

Regarding their speed, that's not necessarily true, it was an issue with slowness on the first generation of Tablet PCs but those were slower clock Tablets using mostly Pentium III Mobile chips, the new ones are mostly using Pentium M or Centrino chips.

I'll rummage around and find my comparison listing..

[Dekard]

http://intel.com/performance/resources/mobiletechnology/charts.htm

There ya go..

Also the new Alias program supposedly rocks with Tablet PCs...


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