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Can I ask a geek question?
I'm going to anyway.

My housemate wants to buy a graphics tablet, but is torn between the 45 Bamboo and the 46 Intuos 3.

Has anyone on here used a bamboo and and ituous tablet and can compare the relative merits of them.

In short, geeks: size of the tablet or sensitivity of the tablet.
GO!
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 11:56, archived)
he'll only use it once to draw a nob then he won't bother any more
so don't fucking bother alright
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 11:57, archived)
I was about to say, he doesn't post on b3ta
but he does have an account that he used to troll me.
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 11:59, archived)
What's a graphics tablet?

(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 11:58, archived)
Seriously son, drugs are bad.

(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 11:58, archived)

urbantejas.com/PROspections/Results/MLAW/DWIGHT.txt
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 11:58, archived)
nice picture
Did you draw it with a tablet?
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 11:59, archived)
I normally draw things with a pencil

(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 12:00, archived)
That looks really good reduced to 1.5 x 1.6

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(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 12:07, archived)
Why doesn't he just buy both?

(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 12:00, archived)
I'll suggest this to him.
He would probably say something along the lines of:

'I only want one'
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 12:01, archived)
Then he should pick one and buy that.

(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 12:02, archived)
Good point, well made.
He doesn't know which is better.
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 12:03, archived)
If he is only ever going to buy one of them it doesn't matter.

(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 12:04, archived)
He wants to buy the better of the two.

(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 12:05, archived)
And he doesn't know which one that is.
So if he picks one of them at random it makes no difference.
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 12:07, archived)
He wants to find out which is the better of the two and buy it.
not

He wants to buy one at random and not know which is the better of the two.
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 12:10, archived)
I think what i'm trying to say here is,
why don't you go ask some people who might actually know the answer to that question?
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 12:13, archived)
I was labouring under the impression that this was a place where geeks gathered.

(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 12:15, archived)
Fuck off back to /Board

(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 12:01, archived)
;)
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(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 12:02, archived)
Now that's what I call minimum fuss

(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 12:03, archived)
BABY DONT HURT, DONT HURT ME NO MORE!
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I love Haddaway
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 12:04, archived)