I'm hoping to get a graphics tablet soon to play with. Essentially, I'm spending my tax return before I have it yet LOL but with me being at home and being bored quite easily these days, I figured I could spend a little something from my earned money that would be some what of an investment. Doing my reading and looking into them, I decided on a Wacom Intuos 3, 4"x6" tablet. The primary reason for the Intuos series instead of the Bamboo series is the pressure sensitivity levels, with the Intuos having 1024 v the 512 from the Bamboo/Bamboo Fun series. The size of the tablet sounds small at 4"x6" (size of a oldschool standard photo) but if you think about how much you move a mouse on a mouse pad these days with ultra sensitive lazer mice avaiable, on my mousepad with my Logitech G5 mouse set to 1000dpi, I move about 3" to go diagonally across my 22" desktop screen.
I am hoping my brother can bring one back for me from the US because it is ~$100 cheaper than getting one locally for the same model. The downside of it is if he can't get one for me before he returns, and if he finds one, then I will have to clean my desk to find space to use it LOL.
I have a particular idea for it that I am hoping to be able to pull off ^^ If it works cool, if it doesn't, I will endevour to improve my skills and try again haha. But, I was thinking it would be a useful tool for other purposes such as educational, since trying to help my cousin with redox equations, I realised handwriting it would be much easier than trying to do it via msn in text.... so using the whiteboard function or something like that would be much better..... In any case, I won't get it for probably a week maybe. =) Tablety goodness.
Edit: It appears that the tablet is only $50 cheaper because Circuit City changed their prices on Sundays, and the advertised online price doesn't include state tax. Still, $50 cheaper is better than full price here.
I am hoping my brother can bring one back for me from the US because it is ~$100 cheaper than getting one locally for the same model. The downside of it is if he can't get one for me before he returns, and if he finds one, then I will have to clean my desk to find space to use it LOL.
I have a particular idea for it that I am hoping to be able to pull off ^^ If it works cool, if it doesn't, I will endevour to improve my skills and try again haha. But, I was thinking it would be a useful tool for other purposes such as educational, since trying to help my cousin with redox equations, I realised handwriting it would be much easier than trying to do it via msn in text.... so using the whiteboard function or something like that would be much better..... In any case, I won't get it for probably a week maybe. =) Tablety goodness.
Edit: It appears that the tablet is only $50 cheaper because Circuit City changed their prices on Sundays, and the advertised online price doesn't include state tax. Still, $50 cheaper is better than full price here.
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Can you still get the educational discount you can get on software and stuff? Or have you finished your PhD?
My sister got a Wacom Intuos 3 6"x8" a year and a half ago (I think) from either educationsoftware.com.au or edu.studentvip.com.au for a few hundred dollars. I'm not too sure about how much it would be from the US though. Don't know how useful this comment will be; you might have already got one.
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