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Subject: RE: FLASH: Tablet vs mouse
From: Tom Kerwin
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 16:03:19 GMT


While we're on tablets again, the battery in mine has run out. Where do any
of you tablet users situated in the UK (especially London) get hold of spare
AAAA batteries?

Tom xxx

-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Grant [peteatpetegrant [dot] com (mailto:peteatpetegrant [dot] com)]
Sent: 01 November 2000 15:35
To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
Subject: RE: FLASH: Tablet vs mouse


> Ok - you have sold me. How much are we looking at for the most
> basic tablet
> on the market? What do you get if you shell out more on a tablet?

You can get a Wacom for both platforms. The HyperPen, though a USB product,
is PC only.

A couple of years ago I got a 4 x 5 Wacom for $99. It was small but good.

A couple of weeks ago I got a 8 x6 HyperPen for $99. The HyperPen comes with
a pen and a mouse to use on the tablet, but unlike the Wacom, each takes a
AAA battery. It works fine.

Both tablets have the feature of choosing an area of the screen to use for
the tablet. This is especially important to me, since I use 3 monitors. For
the Wacom, you may have to get that feature from their website.

I'm fortunate enough to be left-handed and right-moused, so I use the "soap
on a rope" a lot of the time, and the tablet when I'm being especially
creative.

Pete


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