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Just had a quick squint at Dabs, A5 tablets start at 150 quid. Having used a few tablets over my time the extra money spent on Wacom is well spent, unless there's a new kid on the block I've not heard of. Try to check the accuracy & dpi on the models you look at and get high dpi + accuracy wherever possible - i'd choose this over tilt sensing any day. Lastly, read up on connection interface & drivers. Pointless buying a pad with no linux support if Linux is on the PC it'll be attached to. Tablets do take a little getting used to - you'll be used to picking up the mouse near the edges of your drawing area and putting it in the middle to get a little extra "table", doing this on a tablet will just move your cursor to the centre. Once you get used to it, you'll find it invaluable - things like vector drawing over a hand-drawn sketch (placed under the clear flap on the tablet if yours has one) are sweet. At the end of the day, you get what you pay for with these babies - if you just want to try one out for the hell of it, then get a cheaper one if you can find drivers, but if you're serious about artwork and you're going to use it a lot, then save up the cash and invest in a good one, you'll not regret it. BTW, I just checked ebay, looks like a few bargains there! On 16/05/07, Anton Channing <achanning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Adrian Midgley wrote: > > I have a little Wacom PenPartner. > > It has worked well enough, but recently didn't with Etch. > > Thats kinda ironic in a sense... :) > > > Now I'm on > > Testing here, perhaps I'll try it again. > > > > I've not tried it on SuSE but I'd expect success. > > I'm on Feisty Fawn at the moment. > > > An alternative is to draw on paper, then scan it in... > > Thats what I do at the moment. However > I find that I still need to do a lot > of digital touch up. And I like to colour > my drawings digitally. > > I'm not sure the pen partner is really > big enough for my needs. I think a5 > is the smallest I want to go. But with > wacom that costs £200. Some other brands > have £50 offerings in the a5 size department, > I was wondering if anybody knew if they > are worth it? Or is really better to shell > out the extra for a wacom? > > Anton > > > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html