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S. Heslop:
Well now nothing is working! Even lost my mouse for a bit. I've got so much junk installed on this computer that I think it might be time for that long overdue reformat.

S. Heslop:
Reinstalling Windows 7 was a 2 day adventure. And I mean 2 full days. But i've finally got things set up for the most part (still need to try import or recreate some of my brushes in Krita).

But hey it works real good. It's alot more responsive on the desktop. Issues that I thought might've been the chinese display controller or the microcontroller emulating a wacom board at first, but I guess the laptop just wasn't quite powerful enough for krita. That said it was an absolute godsend when reinstalling Windows.

BUT. Now I've gotta do something about that pen. It's so thin and only has the one button. I could easily drill out a bit of wood or delrin to slip around it, or 3d print something, but i'm thinking about adding more buttons with maybe an IR transmitter on the tip. I'd be worried about RF stuff interfering with the digitizer.

The real question though is how many buttons can you practically fit on a pen. And how many would be useful.

S. Heslop:
I've been drawing a bit more on this pen display. It's all I got now! But i'm starting to notice more cracks in it. The pen doesn't have very good pressure sensitivity, and looking into it it seems that's quite normal for pen enabled laptop displays as they have a low pressure resolution. It still feels like a step up from the other tablet now that i'm getting used it it.

But the pressure along with the lousy viewing angles and inconsistent colours of the TN panel (not to forget the relatively low display resolution) had me looking into other displays again. Reading more of the bongofish forums also suggests that their DIY Cintiqs, fantastic as they are, tend to have jitter issues. Not always but it's a common enough occurance to make me hesitant to really spend money on trying to combine a fancy display with a fancy tablet.

So i've been looking at those Chinese pen enabled displays again. They range from 10 inches up to 22 inches in steps of approximately 2 inches, with prices ranging between £200 to £500. There's a full HD one at 13.3", IPS, which costs about £230. Still more money than I have but it's not far off what trying to get a useable modern laptop display would cost.

Also looking at the arrangement i've settled on for the display I made, with it quite close to vertical on the desk, I was thinking I could easily fit a relatively small computer behind it. Then thinking about how to fit a keyboard to it I was considering something that slides about or is maybe detachable and covers the display in transit... and suddenly I realised that i've reinvented the luggable computer.

PekkaNF:
I remember those luggable computers. They were really usefull (but short lived). I was over the moon to get one of them, because Siemens S5 et.al. needed a proramming device (Siemens Simatic S5 PG 675) that was really big/unconfortable/heavy to carry AND they were pretty expensive and unusual. Really pain when you need to travel with them, specially to places like oriental countires, USSR and USA with their higky bureacratic and suspicious customs officeers.



How come it looks relly small on pictures....It felt huge when you lugged trough airport, showed in customs, show and tell ATA-Carnet and prepared to spend some extra time anything from 11 to 6 hours in customs AND every country had it's own customs and procedures. EU is joy 0 sec on customs instead of 1 hour on German customs, then 2 hours on French customs and after a week same thing but trough Swiss customs. My personal record was 2 km, journey from Russia - took 10 hours and six offices.

Don't plan to travel with DIY looking computer :lol:

awemawson:
Pekka that's EXACTLY the device with Step5 software that I need to read my Symatic 820T PLC ladder

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