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I'm not surprised. I know a fairly serious artist (whose "I scribbled this out for something to keep my hands busy while listening to the talk" drawings are substantially better than the best I can do) who uses such a tablet. I should look into it. If the interfaces are documented enough, I might even allow myself to splurge on such a thing. Sure. I'm really more interested in the human-factors questions of "what kinds of input tasks do this device's human-interface properties optimize it for?". The obvious one is what it evolved for, namely music, but there probably are other tasks it's better than a traditional mouse-and-keyboard for.... I actually think that's not so much the problem as it is that the feedback is concealed by the input device. I've done pixel-precise positioning with the touchpad on my laptop; it's a pain, but it's doable - but only because the visual feedback is not under the finger. Hence my suggestion about displacing the visual feedback so it's out Me neither. I'd have the touchscreen basically flat. When I've spent significant time using a touchscreen, I've held it basically at the angle I'd hold a pad of paper for writing on. It's possible that doing it right will mean splitting the output and input, so that the input is flat but the output is vertical (as is pretty much true of mice-and-keyboards). This could also fix the "feedback is under the fingertip" issue. But it's not what most people mean by a touchscreen. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B