Tx2 may not good for photoshop & illustrator! because there is no wintab support for tx2, maybe you can consider about tx2500 with wacom pen, the pressure pen on tx2 only work for few graphic program, sketchbook pro, artrage, paint.net & comic studio... .

for the ATI displace card, that is 64MB MAIN memory plug more that 256m share memory, because Vista can't use all 4G memory, so you won't lose anything.

I have the same model - tx2 1011AU and I am able to play games like left 4 dead. But I limit my gameplay for not more than an hour to avoid overheating. And also, I set all graphic properties to low. As for photoshop, I have no idea what wintab support is but I am able to do dribbles :) good luck

Chris Lorensson said: Hi guys - I have a TX2-1010ea - the one with the NTrig screen, not the Wacom one. I'm a graphic designer and regularly use the CS3 suite. I can say that I'm totally un-impressed with the pen mode when using these apps. It seems the pen doesn't track smoothly (particularly in the middle of the screen) and that makes it useless for illustration. Every now and then I use the pen, but very rarely because it just doesn't work well. The touch works pretty good, but in vista the multi-touch is useless. Haven't tried in in Windows 7 yet but have heard great reports. All in all, if you're a designer looking for a tablet because of the pen input, please, for the love of God, steer clear of the TX2 range unless, perhaps, you go for an older model with Wacom screen.

 http://www.artrage.com/ fully supports ntrig's pen, including pressure sensitivity. blame Adobe not ntrig or hp. try win7 with the latest ntrig drivers and firmware for win7 v2.59.

BTW, it's funny I keep saying 'for the love of God'.

Also, I shouldn't have to install another operating system and/or drivers for it to work - it should work perfectly well off-the-shelf. Shame on you, HP.

Hi all, I should probably say I've run a little test with the digitizer because I noticed it wasn't tracking smoothly. After a bit of testing (by drawing in Illustrator), I realised that there seemed to be a sort of 'danger strip' about 1.5cm high all the way across the centre of the display - horizontally.

What happens is that when I'm drawing anywhere within this strip, the pen DOES register in the area, but the proportions in the tracking change dramatically- the cursor tracks much, much faster inside this zone, making it impossible to control.

Initially, I though it seemed to be a calibration issue, so tried to recalibrate several times. I also tried 'tricking' the calibration by making the zones smaller and larger, but nothing worked. In fact, it seemed that calibrating it never made any difference at all.

So, it seems to me that this is some sort of hardware issue with the screen itself, or the driver software simply doesn't work very well (or at all) - particular it's calibrating function.

Any thoughts anyone?