Editing photos on a table or slate?

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Is editing photos on a Tablet PC or Slate PC a worthwhile exercise?

My current laptop is 3+KG, and 5 years old. My current workstation is 4 years old, and starting to slow down (I also think that a corruption has gotten into IE).

So, without rebuilding the desktop, I was thinking that a tablet or slate PC would be a good alternative to the laptop? Generally they are a lot lighter (around a KG).
Screen size I was thinking of is 12", which is bigger than the graphics tablet I use on the PC (A6). The advantage/disadvantage would be that I would be seeing the image on the item upon which I am drawing, More accurate surely? Although possibly my hand would obstruct what I am looking at?

Has anyone here done a lot of editing on a table pc or slate, and can comment as to whether they have gotten used to it?
 
My worry would be resolution. IMHO, you'd probably be better served getting a decent new desktop machine for a similar price.
 
Yes, the resolution isn't great, it is 768 lines, but my current workstation is 1024 lines, only 30% more.
However, I am thinking that the laptop/slate might give me more options when away from home, so I would like to know in real terms, are they usable (one thing I thought of this morning, is that I would need 3 hands. 1 to hold the slate, 1 to hold the pen, and the other to hold/press buttons on a remote keyboard).

[off-topic I would like to upgrade my workstation at some point, but I am stuck between whether the disks are dead/corrupted, or whether the whole system is due for retirement. It is a difficult decision, it is a dual processor, dual core (so 4 cores) @2GHz, 4GB ram (albeit with PAE currently).
CPU-wise it is more than capable, but the memory speed is much slower than can be achieved nowadays. I hope that the problem I have with it at the moment, is due to a corruption in explorer/IE. It causes spontaenous reboots when I have IE loaded. However memtest passes fine, although each reboot seems to be preceeded by an SBE, which isn't changing position when I swap memory dimms around. This suggests processor failure unfortunately. ]
 
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Yes I've tried smaller screens etc, we had some of the wacom tablets in with the inbuilt screen for trial but no one liked them due to the low res.

Personally I like to use a 24" monitor at 1920x1200 but you may struggle with that res these days as a lot seem to be 1920x1080 HD res.

I think it'll also depend on what software you are using - same goes for your PC requirements.
 
Byker28i said:
Yes I've tried smaller screens etc, we had some of the wacom tablets in with the inbuilt screen for trial but no one liked them due to the low res.
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What was the resolution of these? I assume that they 'copied' the main screen?

I mean, currently I am using an A6 tablet mapped to the screen, so I am drawing and looking in two different places, surely being able to 'see' what you are drawing is easier?
 
Byker28i said:
Personally I like to use a 24" monitor at 1920x1200
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I use two 24" 1920 x 1200 monitors and I'd like MORE screen real estate!!
 
coldpenguin said:
What was the resolution of these? I assume that they 'copied' the main screen?

I mean, currently I am using an A6 tablet mapped to the screen, so I am drawing and looking in two different places, surely being able to 'see' what you are drawing is easier?
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I use an A4 tablet, but in relative (mouse) mode. I can't get on with 1:1 mapping of the screen to tablet. I also find an A4 tablet too large.... Why are you looking at the tablet when drawing on screen?
 
arad85 said:
Why are you looking at the tablet when drawing on screen?
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Currently I am not, I am drawing on the graphics tablet (which is difficult terminoligy, being different to a tablet PC), and I am looking at the screen.
This to me is two different places (whereas an artist would be looking at the end of the pencil, one place.)
If the device I was using was a slate, then the slate is the screen and tablet in one, so I would be looking in one place.
 
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