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> Drawing with a capacitive stylus is like cutting off the tips of your fingers and trying to type.

Never tried but I can totally imagine :) From my experiences with iPads, I'd compare it to fingerpainting, but I guess your description is more .. vivid :)

But I get from the article, and how the author seems pretty satisfied with it, that the Surface uses a different, better technology for t6hat?

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The fingerpainting analogy is what I use as a springboard when someone belittles styluses and good digitizers. Babies and kids fingerpaint, adults use brushes and pens.

Yea, the Surface uses the ideal solution, a Wacom digitizer.

The Samsung Note series of phones and tablets also use the Wacom, as does the Atom-based Thinkpad Tablet 2.

I was considering the Note 10.1 and ThinkPad Tablet 2 for their pens and stumbled on this comparison last week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncegf0Em7m4

It does appear that the more horsepower your tablet has, the better suited it is to doing pen-based art. It's pretty clear in the video that a full-powered desktop CPU is better than the Atom and the mobile CPU for sketching.

If the Thinkpad Tablet 2 had been released on schedule, I'd probably have grabbed one of those. With the Barnes and Noble gold discount, it would be pretty close to the cost of the iPad. Unfortunately, it was delayed multiple times.

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