Ah yeah saw those as well. Want to get the biggest I can, as I found the small bamboo thing I had years ago to be far too small to be any real use.

Are you using it as a mouse replacement too, or just for art faggery?

I don't think it's accurate enough for a mouse replacement. Nope, it's probably too accurate. When moving the cursor's a bit erratic, due to it being too sensitive (and there may well be a setting to reduce this) and it's picking up every bit of wobble from my hand. I'm pretty steady handed and it amplifies every shake.

I'm working across two monitors and like Smiffy alluded to before, they're different resolutions and the absolute positioning given the tablet's ratio makes scrolling between them a little odd.

Bugger. I'm shakey enough as it is  T_T

Switch to decaff?
 

Haven't really seen the cursor shakiness you describe at all. I've got my tablet mapped to span both displays (a 1080p led, and a 20" crt @ 1400x1050), and it acts like a super fast and very precise mouse. I seem to not use it very often at all these days though. My stylus has a busted switch (or more accurately a lost switch after I dropped it on the kitchen tile floor and it skittered off to parts unknown) for doing fancy keyboard combo stuffs. It still works fine as a *mouse replacement* though but I find it easier to mouse with my right hand and type with my left, so less disruptive that way.

It's not the coffee, it's the pent up rage and aggression.

Found these options after having a play around tonight, the monitor mapping one's the most interesting.

 

So if you map the tablet to the screen, does a tap/contact with the stylus move the pointer to that spot, then a mouse click would be a button on the stylus?

or is the stylus tip a button?

Aye, that's right.

There's a rocker style switch on the pen which can do a whole host of things (2nd pic attached here)

That's the thing I lost.  :-((

Those pens aren't cheap either, if you can even find them.

Think you kind of hover with teh stylus to move the mouse, contact is equivalent to left click. So contact + movement = left click plus movement (ie drag, paint, eraser etc.)

What Kos said, I was getting the wrong end of the stick there.

But you can take the stylus away from the tablet and put it down at another spot and the cursor will appear at that point on your screen, you can also hover and move it too. The distance it's effective over is around 0.5cm.

Been scouring ebay, but the medium ones seem rare second hand and expensive new. Don't want a small one again is it just didn't satisfy my needs last time.

Have you got the eBay phone app? Get a saved search on there and get it to notify you when new items are listed. It saves on the scouring.

I have a small one, but it still gets the job done.

 

YJ, YJ.

Having worked with both, gotta say I prefer the small one as it's more portable and just seems faster as a mouse replacement (you can literally take the cursor across two spanned displays with the flick of a wrist).

OTOH the medium is probably better for /drawing/ (which I don't use it for).

Ever tried playing a game with it?

Just thought it might be suited to RTS games.

Nah, I doubt it would be much good in games, at least not the ones I like to play. Ever used a joystick with an FPS? It's really good!

I do. Problem is there are a squillion model numbers, and a lot are just listed as "wacom tablet".

Got my eye on a couple of intuous 4 mediums that look to be going around the 60 mark..

Absolutely, John.