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Fractal Painter

    11-Jan-94 23:57:01
Sb: #75506-Fractal Painter
Fm: John Tissavary 71054,15
To: Mike Kelley 71302,73
I threw all my mice in the trash when I got my XGT. I would recommend the XGT over the WACOM. It is a sturdier tablet, and difference in feel is as much a matter of taste and habit as anything else. I don't understand why anyone would use a mouse as an input device if they have a tablet with much greater accuracy, resolution, no stupid balls to get stuck (I've ruined a couple of mice throwing them against the wall after they froze up on a REALLY important line in a drawing or model), greater wrist comfort, pressure sensitivity, etc…. The Kurta XGT is wireless, so I've got a pressure sensetive pen and a puck always ready to go. I use the pen for painting and some 3DS functions, and the puck for ACAD and most mouse-like operations. Mice really suck. I can't even aim the damned things any more because I'm used to moveing the cursor around consistently to the same place with the same wrist motion and you need a precision input device for something like that, and mice ain't persisiun <g>. John Tissavary (La Luna cie)