Rarely do I really want something very strongly so fervently. But when I think of myself holding a Tablet PC with a fresh install of the Gimp on it, my world just flushes with rainbows, unicorns, bunnies, and lush prairie grasses. To wit: I want one.

So, anyone have much knowledge in these matters? Its main use will be drawing so I don't even really care about its CPU speed or memory (within reasonable limits). What will matter are how easy it is to use and neat little features like a pressure-sensitive pen.

Hmm... maybe I could even just get a Tablet screen and pen and hook it up to a desktop computer. I wonder if that'd be easy.

Yah, it's really easy, and costs much less. There are little "tablet"-things that go on your desk and you have a pen and you can draw on them, and they only cost like $50.

I own one of them, beats having to buy a new PC and not have all your old files on it. On top of that, the pen could be a mouse lol.

Sweet.



Is it one of them non-screened ones? If so, how easy is that to use?

It's got like a stiff plastic screen thing, it gets some time to get used to but yeah its pretty easy.

None of those have screens. They're refering to the Wacom style tablets that you can write and draw on. Those don't work easily at all. There's no interaction between the hand and what appears on the screen. if you want to hook up a touchscreen to a desktop computer, Sony came out with a VAIO a few years back that came as a bundle with a touchscreen display and stylus and was preprogrammed so that it could function like a Tablet PC, but with the power of a desktop computer.