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Avoid accelerated Wacom pen in Ink writing recognition
Authored by: multiplex on Mar 12, '04 04:24:03AM

As I am busy looking for a tablet - can you tell me which one you bought? I am oscillating between the Intuos2 and the Graphire3 - and would like to know if the Graphire is OK (Much less expensive, and I don't _really_ need the angle dependence of the input).

M.



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Avoid accelerated Wacom pen in Ink writing recognition
Authored by: xavierbdm on Mar 12, '04 09:07:49AM

I bought the A5 Graphire3 Studio XL.
Same price tag as the A6 Intuos, but twice the surface.
No need for 1024 levels of pressure indeed (and angle dependance).
My reasoning (helped in that by the salesman who actually gave sound advice) was that if I discovered the pressure level and the tablet buttons were required, i could re-sell the Graphire3 and buy the A5 Intuos (whihc by the time will have been upgraded to Intuos3, as well)
My only gripe with Graphire is the (apparent) cheap quality of the pen, which is a major comfort factor in the Intuos (soft grip, nice weight, etc.)
I find the buttons almost unusable, unless you shift your position of fingers every time you need to press them.
And the somewhat ugly blue color, and the thickness of the tablet (positionned in front of the keyboard, it is level with the space bar, so it forces you to adopt a new typing position).
Good point is the ability to clip the pen in the recess on the side of the tablet, vey good for not loosing it hile on the road.
Overall I would not advise buying any cheaper A6 tablet, it is a wasted investment, as the novelty effect wears off quickly and the use as a mouse is limited.
(My main argument for using a tablet is avoiding RSI, which I am slowly getting, even with the Apple mouse.)
And Ink works surprisingly well, but for the fact that if some process starts eating processor time in the background, your writing gets distorted and delayed.

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