Laptop with Wacom

notman

Has anyone seen this? Or know someone with one already?
http://www.pc.ibm.com/europe/thinkpad/why/en/wseries.html?europe&cc=europe

I know the other week, someone posted a computer with an expandable display, which this one has a different variation on, but this ALSO has a wacom pad built in. I'm not sure it's worth the dough, but I like the idea if it feels right.

Japhir

looks cool! but a "120cm x 80cm Wacom®" might be a bit too large for me . haha

notman

lol, that's part of my concern. Too small, and the location. Typically I like something to rest my wrist on.

Japhir

no i was serious, 120 cm = 47 1/4 inches. they should have put mm.
lame.

notman

haha, I didn't catch that. Good point.

diminished_Self

considering that the one without a wacom is 2600 bucks....

hawken

looks like the laptop I always wanted.

why not get rid of the touch pad alltogether and make one touch / wacom pad?

extra screen still looks silly

PolyHertz

Sort of like the idea of a built in mini-wacom, good for flights and such. But have to agree about the second screen on this one, it just looks silly.

Vitor

And what about this one? http://www.axiotron.com/index.php?id=modbook Kinda expensive toy but seems what I always asked for...

Codeman

i bought the gateway 141x convertable tablet pc and love it. I think the current model is 143x. Drawing on the wacom screen is a joy. Like having a cintiq built in. Great investment for me.

http://www.gateway.com/systems/series/529598090.php

Justin Meisse

Codeman wrote: »

i bought the gateway 141x convertable tablet pc and love it. I think the current model is 143x. Drawing on the wacom screen is a joy. Like having a cintiq built in. Great investment for me.

http://www.gateway.com/systems/series/529598090.php

How's the battery life and heat output on that? I'm wary when they choose to call them notebooks instead of laptops

notman

I thought others have commented about pressure detection not being very good on tablets... or there was a unbearable lag.

not a bad price though. I've been pretty happy with the gateway I bought my wife.

Codeman

I love my gateway conv. It says that it is only 256 levels of sensitivity, but all my recent sculpts were done on it and it rocks.

Here is an example of done all on my wacom pen screen.

http://www.codemanstudios.com/images/3D/NLF/Treevil01.jpg

Plus it is so awesome with painter x, psd and art rage as well. No lag, very seldom callibration is needed. great machine.