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Originally Posted by nekokami
wayspooled, I'm looking for an older tablet that has a pressure sensitive digitizer-- I want to use it for artwork. It can be older because I plan to use ArtRage, a natural-media program that is fairly lightweight and doesn't require a system with a fast CPU or piles of RAM. However, I've been having some trouble finding out whether tablets listed on eBay have pressure sensitive digitizers or not. Do you know of a comparative matrix somewhere that I could check? (Or if you'd like to make recommendations, that would be great too!)
Thanks!
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Howdy Nekokami
Let me start with the last question first. No, I sure wouldn't have any recommendations for you. I had to look up a couple of your terms to be sure I knew what you were talking about <laughs>. So you wouldn't want my advice on which tablet for art I think.
I don't see any charts comparing surface pressure and levels of pressure density anywhere. I looked around and I did see a number of artists asking questions similar to yours and also answering the same. About the best I could do is point you towards those. Several times I saw folks saying the number of levels after 256 had greatly diminishing returns.
Couple of them you have to just keep reading down through the thread until you get past the folks going ooh and ahh about each others artwork <grin>... I guess the main point of the first one is to ensure this is the type of artwork of which you're thinking. (Might have to copy and paste a couple of these links)
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=89032
This one is an artist discussing what he does with his Acer
convertible tablet/laptop.
http://www.highend3d.com/articles/reviews/21.html
News story about ArtRage winning a WinXP Tablet edition award. There are a couple links in the story that look promising.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/dec04/12-01TabletPCWinnerPR.mspx
These newer Axiotron Modbooks seem to have 512 levels but they're very new so hard to find used.
http://www.axiotron.com/index.php?id=36&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=81&tx_ttnews[backPid]=2&cHash=882b9ab7c1
Commentary here
http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/showthread.php?t=6701
and here
http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/showthread.php?t=8668
and here
http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/showthread.php?t=9143
And I just found it while I was typing, some tablet pc recommendations from the forums at Ambient Designs, the folks that make ArtRage.
http://www2.ambientdesign.com/forums...ighlight=slate
Hope that's helpful to you. Of course in all of those forums you can post a question too. They do seem to like the Toshiba M400 and Fujitsu st5121 (or 20, whichever was the bigger screen)
Good luck!
-w