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These questions are for people who have experience using graphics tablets for handwritten text entry and editing.
I want to buy a tablet to give this technology a "test drive" with Windows XP and Word 2003. Since I don’t know whether I’ll continue using it after the test period, I want to minimize my expense. I would like to buy an older, used tablet on eBay, and I would like to buy the least expensive one I can find that will work without a lot of fussing around and will let me give the technology a realistic trial. If I decide I like it, I can buy a better tablet for real use.
Now, the questions: what type of tablet should I look for? Any particular brands I should look for, or avoid? (Wacom seems to go for a substantial premium. I haven’t seen any tangible reason for that apart from name recognition.)
How big a tablet do I need? Is 4×5" enough? Or do I need 6×8", or even bigger?
Am I likely to have any problems if I buy an older RS-232 tablet, beyond the small inconvenience of attaching an RS-232 device to a modern computer?
Anything else I should know before I start?
My email address is llm040903 at earthlink dot net.
I want to buy a tablet to give this technology a "test drive" with Windows XP and Word 2003. Since I don’t know whether I’ll continue using it after the test period, I want to minimize my expense. I would like to buy an older, used tablet on eBay, and I would like to buy the least expensive one I can find that will work without a lot of fussing around and will let me give the technology a realistic trial. If I decide I like it, I can buy a better tablet for real use.
Now, the questions: what type of tablet should I look for? Any particular brands I should look for, or avoid? (Wacom seems to go for a substantial premium. I haven’t seen any tangible reason for that apart from name recognition.)
How big a tablet do I need? Is 4×5" enough? Or do I need 6×8", or even bigger?
Am I likely to have any problems if I buy an older RS-232 tablet, beyond the small inconvenience of attaching an RS-232 device to a modern computer?
Anything else I should know before I start?
My email address is llm040903 at earthlink dot net.
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