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old/dead tablet PC as a graphics tablet

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4/11/06 at 10:15am
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Okay heres the deal. I do TONNEs of sketching in notebooks and whatnot but find it amazingly hard to colour properly, but in photoshop I am less than good with the drawing side of things but am quite good a colouring and shading. So as I saw the drop in price in Wacom graphics tablets I considered buying one and getting the best of both worlds BUT it struck me that drawing as if one a page but looking at your screen REALLY screws me over, I just can't co-ordinate myyself properly like that so an idea came to me. What if I got an old or dead tablet pc for cheap and somehow just made that as basically a secondary monitor. Would that work? does anyone have any suggestions as to where to find dead pcs or old tablets...

thoughts commments appreciated

Mike Check
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4/11/06 at 12:33pm
Not possible (or atleast not practical) as far as I know. You'd have to somehow rewire the LCD in the tablet to connect to a regular video card. That does not even include the touch functionality. Not even sure how one would go about doing it.

Good idea however.
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post #3 of 3
4/12/06 at 9:28am
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bugger... are there any tablets that have an LCD or somthing or other in them?

Mike check
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