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A good Tablet PC for osu?

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Behon
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Behon
Didn't know which forum to post this in so might as well post it here

I've been using a borrowed laptop for a few weeks now ever since my old one got fried in a power outage, and I may purchase an entirely new one within the next few weeks. I'm looking at the possibility of a Tablet PC, for several reasons: The ones Best Buy has fall within my desired price range, I can use the screen for work (I'm an art student who uses Flash and Photoshop a lot), and because osu! would be great to play on it. I've done well using a regular tablet and just staring at the screen these past few years, but it would be nicer to have that DS-like feeling of direct contact.

What I wonder about is how good the timing is on it. My mom has a slightly older touchscreen and I tried the game on it out of curiousity, and the feedback was very laggy- the hit was registered a half-second behind the actual tap. I looked in the menu of the game and saw that there's a Force Tablet PC option that supposedly improves things, but I wont know until I try it. Does anyone know if either of these:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/iPad-Tablet ... 9000050008
would be good for playing osu! via the touch screen, or if there are other models that would be better?
Daru
osu!painter
866 posts
Joined August 2008
Daru
None of them -- most, if not all tablet computers have a lag between the tap and the click on screen. This isn't very noticeable during regular use, but once you start playing osu! it will become very significant. Furthermore, there are only a few tablet computers with Wacom-enabled pen input, which means you'll have no pressure sensitivity unless you can find a computer with such functionality.

Considering slates,
The Archos 101 looks promising, assuming Android osu! pops up sometime, but the iPad running the iPhone osu! is a viable option.
law162006
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Joined February 2010
law162006
osu is played by moving the cursor to click the circle, slider ande the spinner
To move the cursor, we can use a mouse or touch-screen etc.

Using a mouse is more diffcult than using touch-screen,
this is because playing in touch-screen can use your two hands at the same time.

There are some touch-screen for windows you can buy in the shop,
but the price is very expensive, buy a touch-screen for playing osu is not a intellectual thing

Writing or drawing board is the most similar as you play in a NDS,
it also a good item to play osu.

And then iphone, it have a touch-screen to play osu,
you can play osu with two hands,.
But there are a problem while playing osu in iphone,
the resolution of iphone is too low that when you click a circle, your fingers will block your vision
so you can't play osu normally on iphone

And ipad, I find that ipad is the most suitable for playing osu,
it have a high resolution and also have a touch-screen,
but now we can just to wait
TO WAIT PEPPY TO DEVELOP OSU ON IPAD,
JUST DO IT!!!PEPPY!
LaCreme
54 posts
Joined August 2010
LaCreme
Those are still what people would call "entry" level tablet PCs.
I used to do some solidworks and autocad on a business level fujitsu tablet pc
and I can tell you that it's NOT DESIGNED TO BE USED FOR GAMES.
I believe Bikko uses a touchscreen monitor (19") but it's not a tablet pc. If you
want that DS feeling and still wish to keep the skills, that seems like the only viable solution.
Behon
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This topic is now null and void, since I went and bought a regular laptop last weekend. Hopefully someday a Tablet PC with instant feedback will be made.
dkun
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dkun
Is a separate touch screen out of the question for you? Or what about something like a Bamboo?
I mean, there's tons of solutions to getting touch screen.
Nekoroll
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Joined May 2010
Nekoroll
Oh man so I was interested in looking at the new Cintiq model. It's so sexy to look at, but the $1999 price tag definitely isn't.

Tablet PCs can only go so far until the novelty of having a touchscreen monitor wears out, imo. Good job on getting a new laptop though. You can never really go wrong with just a regular kind of system.
Daru
osu!painter
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Daru

Nekoroll wrote:

Oh man so I was interested in looking at the new Cintiq model. It's so sexy to look at, but the $1999 price tag definitely isn't.

Tablet PCs can only go so far until the novelty of having a touchscreen monitor wears out, imo. Good job on getting a new laptop though. You can never really go wrong with just a regular kind of system.
Well, there are really cheap wacom-enabled laptops -- you can find one with not bad specs (Core2 Duo and 4Gb DDR2) for like $400, and it's a viable alternative to a Cintiq if you really must draw on-screen.
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