While the bulk of consumer oriented slates lack pen functionality, due to a variety of reasons (capacitive technology, consumer needs, pricing, Android), we’re seeing N-Trig make some inroads with their DuoSense technology – a single touch layer that combines capacitive multi-touch and active digitizer. HP’s Slate 500 is one of the most recent, high profile tablets to adopt the tech, and over at Tablet PC Review, N-Trig’s pen performance has been given a good work through and compared to Wacom’ solutions found on higher end products.
Various apps were tested – Art Rage Pro, Corel Painter 11, Photoshop CS3, Poser 7, Autodesk Sketchbook 2010, Strata Studio CX 5.5 and Paint Tool Sai, with side by side comparisons of line strokes. Bottom line is performance doesn’t match up and blame is on nTrig’s fresh WinTab driver since most apps use that. Photoshop is listed as having ‘too many glitches’ and Corel Painter as ‘too unstable’. On the other hand, performance is decent for those apps that support Microsoft Ink – Paint, Art Rage and Sketchbook Pro get the thumbs up.
Last month, N-Trig demonstrated DuoSense in action on the recently released Fujitsu Lifebook T580 with one of the better working apps, Sketchbook Pro and it looks great:
Source: Tablet PC Review via GottaBeMobile
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