Journal GeckoFood's Journal: [geek] Writing Tablet for PC - Revisited 3
A few weeks ago I purchased a Wacom Bamboo small tablet for my PC. I liked it and I found the transition from a traditional mouse to be truly wonderful. That said, it was small and I wished for a bigger one.
Wait a sec, Gecko... What do you mean "liked"? What happened, you get rid of it already?
As a matter of fact, yes, I did. I have a niece who is very artistic and loves to draw, so I gave her my Bamboo and I gave her a full-up legal copy of SketchBook 2010 (and, yes, I deleted it from my system).
Now, sitting on my desk in the place of the Bamboo, is an Intuos4 Medium. I would have been content with a Bamboo Fun Medium but they're not usually in the stores. So, I went with a higher-end professional tablet.
The differences are vast. The Intuos4 is a LOT more sensitive than the Bamboo, having 2048 pressure levels instead of 512, and it picks up the slightest pressure when I am drawing or writing. The pen is more comfortable, the writing surface is more suited to my gorilla hands, and it has more functions available.
After using this I think I am about done with traditional mice and trackballs. It is so much more natural and comfortable to use a pen than to use a mouse. I certainly did not need to spend that much money for the same end result, but I am pleased with the product and if my hands feel better then it's worth the price.
I still have my full version of Corel Painter 11 so I have a use for the artistic aspects of this tablet. I have been amazed at how soft I can drag the pen and see results on the screen. Now I just need some ability...
Good to See, good to see... (Score:2)
How're things otherwise? Has work slowed at all? Any baking being done?
I've got an ancient Graphire 2 (Score:2)
I never did get it working right, so I stored it with my other miscellaneous stuff for about ten years. And then I pulled it out and got it working under Ubuntu+GIMP for the intern where I work. And now I power on his workstation when he's gone and play around with it myself. :-)
Good to know (Score:2)
Good to know. I used to have a huge trackball, which was great. Had only Win 3 drivers though, so it is no more. The more I work with the mouse at work, the more I wonder if there isn't something better.... On the one hand, when my hand starts to get that twinge from clicking too much, I write a WinBatch script to do the clicking for me. On the other hand, I would like something that just works better so I don't have to do that. It take a good 45 minutes to perfect the script to turn ctrl+alt+z into a