Graphic tablet for laptop

Hi,

I am thinking about buying a graphic tablet, but mostly for Microsoft OneNote or Office use.
I've made some research on the net and it seems that Wacom products are quite good, but they talk mostly about image editing and not document editing.
Did anyone have some experience with any kind of graphic tablets for text editing?
Would be grateful to have some of your advice on this.
Thanks
Greg

 

The Wacom boards are indeed good for image editing but the work well enough they work well with text as well. I bought my Graphire 3 tablet so that i could edit and write text in a japanese language program but then ended up using it for photoshop stuff as well...

 

I have an Adesso 12x9 graphics pad and it works pretty slick. I use it with Photoshop CS2 and Illustrator CS2.

 

wacom is always the way to go when It comes to tablets, if you are just going to be using it to take notes, if you are going to be writing, just type in man, haha, if you need to be making small drawings of your ideas or whatever, a notebook is a much more efficient way of taking notes, than a laptop with a tablet attatched.

i wouldn't recommend getting a tablet just to take notes, that is what a Tablet PC is for.

if you can go to a store and try out a Wacom or something and see if you like writing with it, etc. then decide.

I have the 6x11 Wacom Intuos 3 and I can't live with out it, I am an animation student. it is one of the most useful things i use. but for taking notes I would recommend a nice small Wacom tablet.

 

Thanks everyone.
I could try a wacom board at work that is a huge one, but I limited its active area to simulate a Graphire4 XL board (A5). Well its not so easy to take notes with it, although I think its a matter of getting used to it.
The retail price of a Graphire4XL is quite high for my budget for the usage I plan for it, so I also looked at the Trust boards. Do you guys know if Trust products are good? They have "up to" 3048 lines per inch resolution. Is that something good compared to wacom stuff, because wacom gives 2000 dpi and not lpi. How to compare these two?
Is the resolution the parameter that count the most, or are there any other that I'd need to be aware of?

 

So noone knows what DPI corresponds to the 3048 LPI?

 

i tried this with my laptop and a graphire3 6x8 for my engineering class to draw circuits and label stuff. this method really doesnt work very well for taking notes as the available area on the tablet doesnt correspond very well to the screen. it works much better with actual graphical work as u can always zoom in and stuff. i've since given up on this and am now looking to get an actual tablet pc.