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The tablet is Wacom enabled and has a nice surface finish for the tactile experience of writing


Has anyone worked with Wacom hardware. How difficult is it to integrate it with a new product?


Thank you. Do you know anything about the latency? Note-taking tablets are an area where tiny differences in latency can make huge differences to usability, or at least to "pleasant-to-use"ability.


For comparison, Boox's EPD (display firmware) has a custom mode that enables very low-latency refresh of a small localized area. This is used exclusively to speed up stylus drawing.

The latency of pen/pencil sketches on Boox devices is near nonexistent, similar to or better than iPad latency but theirs is handled in the display controller hardware without traveling through the OS interrupt handler stack. It's really good. With their scratchy matte screen protector and a LAMY body around the wacom nib, it's really like writing on paper.

If DC can pull something like that off, I'll be really impressed!


The display is a (reflective) LCD, so the display latency should be low.


There is no detectable latency. My girlfriend painted a landscape scene in the stock drawing app, came out pretty well on her first try.




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