Wacom's PL-900 tablet is perfect for mapping out falling profits in style
By Ross Miller 
posted Jan 28th 2009 12:41PM
posted Jan 28th 2009 12:41PM
[Via Far East Gizmos]
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"You can see here we were doing okay, but then we had a miscellaneous IT expenditure of $19,880. Now we might be in trouble. But this tablet is cool, and we have them in all 10 conference rooms.
Just curious how much better is this than getting a tablet PC? Seems like only artists and stuff would need this....right?
why are there no widescreen tablets available for consumers?
i mean touchscreen monitors
Because they all want to be Isinbayeva.
EEE PC with touchscreen isn't good enough now?
Try a cintiq 20SWX (made by Wacom)
It's widescreen.
Michael
I was the the only one that thoght the pen was piercing through the tablet at the first look?
Mmmmmmmyup.
Yes, it's called perspective
This would be perfect for the dedicated Osu! fan.
http://osu.ppy.sh
No that was not link spamming. If I got this tablet, this is the game I would play on it.
Orrrrr.... you could go get a tablet PC and save around $800 and get an actually useful device, unless you absolutely have to have 19"... and as has been noted over and over - trying to draw on a vertical surface is *painful* - holding a 19" flat will be equally painful.
I think this is a product that's fallen between two use cases.
Cintiqs have adjustable angles. You can adjust them to almost-vertical and almost-horizontal angle.
I have no idea why you would want to draw horizontally for long periods of time anyways. That would destroy your neck. I prefer having my drawing surfaces at greater than 45 degree angles... I would think that would be way less painful personally. And of course, you wouldn't hold this tablet, its on a stand.. it would be too heavy to hold for any extended period of time. This is a sit-at-a-desk affair.
Tablet PCs are cheaper but are tethered to the specs that they come with. A tablet or a cintiq can move between computers, which means it will be a more useful long term investment - you can really use it until the bulb dies out.
Not to mention that tablet pcs are habitually only 12 inchers nowadays, which is nice for notetaking, but not so good for doing any sort of drawing in palette-heavy applications. It's really hard too to find a tablet pc with a half-way decent graphics card. It's much easier to get a computer with the ideal specs for running your applications, and tethering it to a cintiq. Of course it's more money, but it's a substantially better setup if you're drawing all day.
A wacom tabletpc don't work like a common touchscreen interface but a patented wacom technology. So yes, is way expensive but worth if you are a artist, mainly because you don't miss the cursor, pressure sensitive and even tilt.
love Wacom's products; sadly the most I could afford now is a bamboo
So, I'm just curious, since this is the same price as the Cintiq line, yet smaller, and lower resolution how it's considered better?
Michael
Does anyone know of a good method to utilize a tablet PC as a digitizer in the same way Wacom is applying this product??
Wacom really needs some competition. Their prices haven't changed in years. I love Wacom and I am on my 3rd tablet, but why haven't the prices dropped? They only use a magnetic grid for plotting points. That technology has got to be cheap! Cheaper than a touchpad, or even a multi-touch pad.