Tablet PC good for CS3?

[pprice]

I am going to buy another laptop to travel with. My HP I have now has the 17" screen which is just to big for the planes.

Anyway, I was looking at the tablet style laptops and thought it might be a bit more easy to work on my pictures if I could just trace things out right on the screen rather than doing it with a mouse.

Does anyone use one? How do you like using it with PS?

[pprice]

Oh darn, I just saw the computer sub-forum....I guess this will be moved :) .

[tkoutdoor]

I'm lurking this thread. Sounds interesting to me. Anyone know about this?

[pprice]

I have a Samsung UMPC that has the touch screen and I think if it had a bigger screen (it's 7"), it would work good.

I know someone has done it with a laptop, I guess we just have to wait for them to come along :) .

If they don't, I will buy one when I get back in the States and let you know.

[René Damkot]

I guess this will be moved :) .

Yep ;)

Friend of mine has a tablet PC.
(No idea what brand. I just know it's about half the size of my 12" PB)

Way to small to work with IMO.
I'd rather get a 12" laptop.

Tjen again, I'd go crazy if I couldn't use keyboard shortcuts in PS :p

[tkoutdoor]

Yep ;)

Friend of mine has a tablet PC.
(No idea what brand. I just know it's about half the size of my 12" PB)

Way to small to work with IMO.
I'd rather get a 12" laptop.

Tjen again, I'd go crazy if I couldn't use keyboard shortcuts in PS :pI know almost nothing about the differences between a tablet PC and a standard laptop. Just because the screen swivels and goes flat on a tablet PC, does that mean it can't be used without swiveling and still use the keyboard? Is there a keyboard on some of them and not on others? If the keyboard can still be used then I have to wonder about turning the tablet flat and using it similar to a Wacom graphics pad and then plugging in a second monitor (and USB keyboard maybe) and using the laptop with the external monitor as a "dual monitor" setup with LR2. I don't know whether PS (CS3+) supports dual monitors, but I presume so.

[pprice]

That is correct, it is a laptop as any other (keyboard, etc.), but it can be used with the pen for the tablet functions "touch screen".

An example of what I am looking at would be the Dell XT.

Here is the link...

http://www.dell.com/tablet