Comment I'd like to buy one (Score 1) 101
I've been a big believer in pen computing since reading Niven & Pournelle's _The Mote in God's Eye_ and using a Koala Pad graphics tablet attached to a Commodore 64 in high school.
Reasons I prefer tablets w/ a stylus:
- drawing
- note-taking
- annotation
- more efficient usage of some programs, esp. those which can be configured w/ pie menus or menu structures which can become gestural (Punch in Altsys Virtuoso was a gesture for me on my Wacom ArtZ graphics tablet attached to my NeXT Cube)
- lighter weight / smaller --- currently trying to ``upgrade'' to a ThinkPad x61 Tablet (convertible) from a Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4121 slate and the former won't fit in my old laptop bag.
Almost bought an Asus Vivotab Note 8, and would've bought the Microsoft Surface 2 from sales this past weekend, but didn't. Concerns I had:
- poor build quality for the Asus --- there's a DIY fix posted for the digitizer ceasing to work
- standard LCD, not daylight viewable
- the Surface 2 which was on sale was the RT model, so can't run Macromedia Freehand --- the Pro 2 was out-of-stock
I'd be sleeping on the couch tonight if someone would make a pen slate which:
- ran either Mac OS X or Windows --- or if there was a drawing program for Android as nice as Macromedia Freehand
- was a pen slate w/ a Wacom digitizer
- had a daylight-viewable display (transflective LCD or better) --- I use my machine as a map reader when traveling and to control my CNC mill on the back porch
- had a resolution higher than 1024 x 768 and was not much larger than a letter-sized notepad