Sure enough, as time went on, big, gaping issues became more apparent the longer I used it. My biggest problem with the X201T, (with ANY Tablet PC for that matter,) is that they all truly have crap digitizers inside. They work fine for some handwriting or some light sketching, but you can absolutely forget about doing ANY serious work like coloring/painting on one. You want pen accuracy? Forget it. The farther you move the pen away from the center of the screen, accuracy and sensor fidelity dive-bombs to the point of uselessness. The pressure on the pens are impossible to hold steady and go from 10% pressure to 100% in too short of a distance. The erasers are spring-loaded. Try doing some light-feathering with one of those -- you'll pull your hair out. Then there's the cursor lag. It exists. And it's nasty. (While with a client one day, I tried to erase the white space from a drawing and found myself having to concentrate completely on JUST keeping the eraser ON THE LINE. I've never had to do that with any other traditional tablet / cintiq. I've never had to undo so many mistakes from JUST ERASING -- AND I was using the eraser tool with the ink-nib side!) Whenever I went back to my Cintiq / Intuos4, I noticed immediately just how much better everything was. Which brings up the other nail-in-the-coffin -- a complete lack of ergonomic shortcut keys. I rely HEAVILY on shortcut keys for my tablet workflow. Alt, Shift, Zoom+/-, Undo, these are dedicated buttons I need. And just about no tablet PC on the market has them. I tried to find other devices to assist with the lack of shortcut keys, but they ended up all being either too clunky to be practical, or too unreliable in implementation. It eventually came down to the fact that all I could do with my X201T was JUST sketching at what felt like an experience just slightly better than drawing on an iPad. I wanted SO MUCH MORE than that from it, so I realized it had to go since it would be incapable of delivering. -- so out the door it went to eBay.
Today, taking its place is a new 2011 model 15" MacBook Pro. I had a few issues with Apple over the past few years, but whatever, I got over it recently when I realized that taking sides on technology/branding is a pretty stupid and useless thing to do. I'm a lot happier with this machine over the X201T. Using my Intuos4 with it is a far greater pleasure, and allows me to perform serious large-scale work. There are other reasons that I went back to an Apple laptop, but those aren't related to art so I'll leave that for another day.
Long story short here, I won't be available for any other consultation on the operation of the X201T. My impressions here are still my own, and a tablet PC may still work well for you. But for what its worth, I think just getting a regular laptop + a Bamboo is WAY better than a crippled tablet stuck inside a mediocre laptop.
