Thanks again for answering my questions

-Amkay

Have you seen this video?
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=61V801WV7Dw

It is done on a Tablet PC, which was a Fujitsu T3010. There is a series of these demos.

If you are in Melbourne, you can contact us to try out a Tablet PC. We are visiting Sydney in December too. So feel free to contact us to try one out.

But disregarding that, I want to know if that’s an issue with the new HP Pavillion TX2500 and TX2Z models? I live in Australia and there isn’t a proper dealer for HP here and I plan to get it from UK thru a relative.

I’m a speed artist so I generally draw at this speed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib1gu7BtGZ4
(theres a little loss of speed cuz of the low framerate video but u get the idea – the spiral I drew at the end was flawless)
The wacom Graphic tablet I use senses every stroke

I’ve searched high and low for forums where digital artists give comments about tablet PCs but I could never find one.
So I was wondering if its a good idea to just stick with my graphic tablet as a peripheral or get a tablet PC

Thanks a lot again

-Amkay

Most, but not all Tablet PCs actually use a Wacom digitiser.

We don’t generally find lag to be a problem with Wacom tablets. I also tested the scenario that you mentioned on my Motion Computing LE1700 (Wacom) and found no such effects.

What Tablet PCs were you using?

Some Tablet PCs use a touch screen instead of a Wacom digitiser, and that would certainly account for the experience that you mentioned. Touch screen tablets are not pressure sensitive and are nowhere near as fast or accurate.

It could also be that it was an older model that was just slow or over loaded in general.

I’m sort of a dedicated graphic artist and I was wondering if you have any tablet PC recommendations for me.

So far I’ve tested some tablet PCs recently and I noticed:
1) there has been a lag between the tablet pen and the actual movements. (i.e. when I draw a line a bit faster, the cursor is chasing my pen nib from behind).

2)Or sometimes i when i draw a quick one-line circle, it fails to detect the whole path and one side of the circle becomes a straight line (i.e the circle looks like a “D” instead of an “O” )

This never happens when I use a Graphic tablet (Wacom Bamboo Fun).
I’ve been spoiled with the super fast respond rate of the Wacom Graphic tablets.

My question is: Is this a limitation of a tablet PC (slow pen-sensor respond rate) ? Can a tablet PC compare to a fully dedicated Graphics tablet? and if there is, could you recommend me one?

Many thanks in advance

-Amkay

I have noticed this solution, and I have it queued up in my 101 list for a separate entry too!

Very interesting.

- Brett

EVODIA has developed a range of software and services for capturing and recognising handwritten drawings.

Script&Go “Electrical Sketches” does exactly what it says : it is a range of specialist software enabling users to draw electrical sketches freehand.

EVODIA, based in Rennes, France has spent over a decade in refining this technology to offer products that are simple, quick and effective and ideal for all staff that need to make technical drawings “on the go” and transmit them to colleagues and clients.

The benefits are clear:

- ideal for technicians with mobile oriented solutions
- saves sketching time, with no need to re-input data or drag and paste
- the software can recognise handwriting and complex contents, both on-line (mobile devices) and off-line (imaged documents).
- the technology automates the analysis, recognition, and indexation of old, damaged, manuscript or graphic documents
- compatible with AutoCAD, which can directly make use of the diagrams with no need to rework them

The integration with pen-based interaction systems delivers innovative solutions to create, search, annotate, view document contents in mobile environments.

Have a look at the web pages :
http://www.evodia.fr/accueil.php?lang=en (Home page)
http://www.evodia.fr/scriptandgo.php?lang=en (Script&Go)

So, if you need a “scribble to screen” solution, Script&Go is the product for you.

Best regards,
Fabien Ric, Script&Go Product Manager.