Tired. Augh. AUGH. I was on the 6:45am train from Newark this morning. I got about two things done today, not including ogling personal tech upgrades. Tomorrow's another day
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While I will probably never go past the level of "hobbyist" on the art/graphics front, I absolutely love my Gateway M275 tablet. I have no idea how the resolution stacks up against the Cintiq, but I do know that I like doing sketches in the Gimp with it, and feel that I'm able to achieve quality comparable to what I can do on paper. (~grin~ Though perhaps that is more of a statement about what I can do on paper...)
It's a Windows machine, and while I keep dreaming of getting Ubuntu or something working as my primary OS Windows is working very well for me right now. My primary use for it is taking notes in my classes; it's gotten me through two semesters so far.
It has it's shortcomings as well, of course. I don't like that the monitor resolution doesn't go above 1280x1024 (but that seems fairly standard for laptops of the time, so while I wish it were bigger I'm not really surprised that it's not). The fan seems particularly loud. It can get very warm which by itself doesn't really bother me, but when that happens I do notice a performance degradation: the fan kicks on and everything freezes for a second or so while it cools off enough to think again, apparently (might be a way to address that somewhere in the power settings and I just haven't found it yet).
All in all, though, I'm really glad that I have it. ^_^
EDIT: Fixed laptop model... FURTHER EDIT: Fixed location of previous edit annotation...
Re: Opinion!adulariaFebruary 18 2009, 18:59:08 UTC
I wasn't considering buying the Cintiq by any means; they just had a floor model out at Tekserve. dymaxion has been impressing me with Sketchbook Pro on a tablet Lifebook for, like, two years now, so I am being swayed. I need to try one set up for a right-handed user. :)
It's a Windows machine, and while I keep dreaming of getting Ubuntu or something working as my primary OS Windows is working very well for me right now. My primary use for it is taking notes in my classes; it's gotten me through two semesters so far.
It has it's shortcomings as well, of course. I don't like that the monitor resolution doesn't go above 1280x1024 (but that seems fairly standard for laptops of the time, so while I wish it were bigger I'm not really surprised that it's not). The fan seems particularly loud. It can get very warm which by itself doesn't really bother me, but when that happens I do notice a performance degradation: the fan kicks on and everything freezes for a second or so while it cools off enough to think again, apparently (might be a way to address that somewhere in the power settings and I just haven't found it yet).
All in all, though, I'm really glad that I have it. ^_^
EDIT: Fixed laptop model...
FURTHER EDIT: Fixed location of previous edit annotation...
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