I recently got a Toshiba R400 from a friend. Its a tablet PC and I really want to sketch on it. Can’t use it yet until I get XP disk which is taking a long time to ship....

Toshiba Portege R400
Tablet PC
Core Duo U2500 1.2GHz
2GB DDR2 RAM
80GB (4200RPM) Hard Drive
12.1 WXGA Wide View Angle(1280x800)
Windows Vista Ultimate

I have never tried sketching on a Tablet PC before and I am worried about Lag and other little factors with the current specifications. This tablet feels incompetent :(

I am also downgrading to Windows XP.

Anyone who has a tablet with comparable specifications, can you please tell me how well and smooth the Sketchbook pro is?

Thanks!

I have the Gateway 143-XL (2.4ghz Core2Duo, 4gb 14” tablet) and an old desktop (2.0ghz Athlon, 2gb, 8” Wacom)-- both run SBP very well with a little bit of lag on big, fast strokes but not so much that it detracts from the experience.  Photoshop will lag occasionally on my desktop, making the line jagged, SBP doesn’t do this at all.  I highly recommend downloading the SBP trial, you’ll get hooked.  If you haven’t downgraded to XP yet, I personally wouldn’t bother, (as far as I can tell) Vista’s problems were all fixed in SP1 and the tablet features of Vista are much stronger than XP.

Good Luck!

I had a Toshiba tablet PC for several years (and my daughter still has one). SBP always worked perfectly, no noticeable lag or anything. That was on XP tablet version. I’m on a Gateway now, and I was ‘forced’ to take Vista - SBP has crashed once or twice since then, resulting in me losing an hour or two worth of work. I blame Vista as my daughter’s version of SBP (which is still on XP) still has never crashed.

I have a older TabletPC and would definitely suggest You download and try this works well for me even with 512 RAM And only a single core CPU. Really shows the strengths of the form factor for me. this has been a heap of fun and check out the atom brushes too.

I have an old Acer Travelmate C213 (XP) with a similar spec to yours and SBP is the ONLY drawing app that works properly with it. It just makes sence of the machine! and has replaced my wacom for drawing.
Try the demo and if it feels right go for it.

Huge Regards
Dave
http://www.squeakypics.co.uk

I have a Motion Computing LE1600 with an Intel Pentium M 1.5 ghz and Mobile Intel 915 video card and 2.5 gb ram

SBP works flawlessly. There’s no lag or slowdown whatsoever. I use it all the time,every day for both professional work and personal projects. It’s not a new tablet either so what you’ve got sounds like it would scream with SBP!

-Mike
http://www.milowerx.com

Anyone else having trouble getting the “right click” functionality to work in 2010 on the tablet PC?  I’m running on a Toshiba Portege’ M700, Vista Ultimate.

Right click works everywhere else… just doesn’t seem to want to work in SBP and Wacom claims no drivers for my hardware, OS combo…

Nope, no trouble right-clicking in either Mac OS 10.5.8, XP, Vista, or Windows 7. The only thing that comes up though is the mini lagoon so there’s not much functionality in SBP with right clicking anyway for now.

-Mike
http://www.milowerx.com

I’m on XP tablet and the right click works fine. I do have a dim memory of downloading a tablet pc only driver from Wacom at some stage. I wonder if anything like that is still kicking around?

I also bought an old cintiq pen which works with the tablet PC. It has a bit of a nicer feel. I believe some tablet PC pens are not capable of the middle click?

Huge Regards
Dave
http://www.squeakypics.co.uk