Old Touchscreen Tablet PC Tech....Still Good?

[NoSeRider]

I remember about 5 years ago, old in dog years, people would drool over getting a Fujitsu or Thinkpad or something or another, and these Touchpads were essentially Wacoms with 256 pressure sensitivity......and expensive. Wacom made drivers for these tablets anyway.

Now it's 5 years later.....for all of you that truly believe in being green and not depleting the Earth of valuable resources and recycling blah blah blah....do you still feel the 5 year old PC touchscreen tablet would be useful for Photoshop or Corel Paint?

You can get these old PC tablets on eBay for cheap and I'm not too thrilled with the lack of stylus sensitivity with iPad or Android tablets.

[timpaatkins]

I was going to get the new Samsung Slate 7, has wacom and core i5, 4 gigs ram runs win 7 and 8,but seems they are having quality control issues, the screen is lifting of the bezel. I will stand back and wait a bit to see if they rectify the situation, looks like the perfect tablet for me. Price is from 1100 up to 1300 with dock and BT keyboard. 7 hours battery time (ideally) and weights under a kilo.

[NoSeRider]

Here's an example of what I'm referring to. It's just so frik'n cheap....but old.

[Randis]

If you just want to paint, this will do just fine. A core 2 duo cpu is not like some fossil artifact. It has 2 GB ram, goon enough.
Cutting edge hardware helps a lot with 3D work and gaming but for painting... Artists were painting awesome pictures 10 years ago with a lot older hardware.
If i'd seen that laptop in a good condition for cheap i would get it.

[extra/card]

If you can get it for cheap I would do it.

I recently bought a lenovo x41 (single core, 1.5gb ram) for $100. It runs sketchbook pro, art rage, Sai, etc great - no problems at all. Photoshop elements and older full versions are good too (can't use really big brushes) but it can't handle any of the newer stuff. The pressure sensitivity is not super but you can draw on the screen and take it anywhere (3ish lbs), which is a plus. It has programmable buttons on the bezel too.

The good thing about old laptops is that they depreciate in value very slowly compared to new ones. If you get it, use it for a few weeks, and decide it's just not going to work out you'll have no trouble selling it for close to what you've paid for it.

[Chipsterology]

I have a Fujitsu slate that still gets it in right nicely. I just want to upgrade to the Samsung Series 7 or the ASUS because of the screen, Win7, and RAM capacity. Still, I'm in no rush, the slate I have is an 05' version I've had for years and still does it's intended job: Getting files ready on the go so I can easily polish them up on the workstation at the lab.
Made an excellent e-book/.pdf reader also Don't sleep on those older tablets with the Wacom digitizers inside, they remain useful to the digitally inclined....