
The 11.6-inch 1920x1080 display has excellent off-axis viewing and bright, clear colors, but it wasn't as overall impressive to my eyes as the Surface Pro's display, which transcended the average laptop display and entered iPad Retina territory. Windows 8 has several of those gestures - or, you could simply reach up and touch the screen. It didn't feel stellar, but off-edge gestures worked, like the right-to-left swipe to bring up the Charms bar. The little multi-touch clickpad worked well enough, no more or less so than that of your average mid-level Netbook.

I found the Surface Pro Type Cover, on the whole, to be a little more cozy and comfy, even though the ATIV's keyboard feels a lot more like an actual laptop. A software update seemed to fix the problem, but it's something to keep an eye on. The keyboard is the critical part that makes this tablet into a semi-laptop, and any failure - even if isolated to this unit - affects my opinion of it as a killer tool.

I use a different wacom sceen with it a alot of the time though and it has a totally different set of wacom drivers, so I had to remove the preference panel of the tablet one but both drivers are present.On our review unit, I found the mechanical connector was prone to little connect-disconnect hiccups.I wasn't sure if it was a loose connector, but it bears noting. But painter by its nature tries to have custom brush calibration controls which may be the odd feature that breaks it.

When I use it with a program like painter, it doesn't work at all, no touch interaction in that program. I will check out your video however, I did grab the zip and was going to see if the brightness kext works with my setup too.Īs far as the touch base the price was the same, I got it with wacom access and without, when Im using a painting program like PhotoshopCC it works pretty well, I usually turn off multitouch and have it only as mouse style as far as palm rejection, Im not noticing it, but I can usually keep my hand off the art area.

having bluetooth wifi and the pen actually work even with the sleep cycling so I didnt ever futz around with pushing limits on the brightness and wacom sleep. Im using the original post DSDT since I was pisspoor at generating a working one of my own. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide
