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Fortunately, Amazon came to the rescue and made them take it back, saving me the trouble of filing complaints. What lousy customer service.I wouldn't do business with ANTOnline again, and warn anyone else to be careful. I even wrote the the CEO. After that one response, they simply ceased responding to my emails. The graphic tablet requires you to write on paper to see what you're writing, but then it saves your notes. I thought I was getting a device that I could write on like an electronic legal pad, without using paper. Unfortunately, loading the Cyberpad's software messed up some setttings on my laptop, so a lot of repair ensued.When I tried to return the item, ANTOnline advised me that their return policy is to not accept any item that has even had the packaging open, and refused to issue an RMA. Never received the courtesy of a response.
Don't try to "cheap-out" for $125-$150 if you do not plan to use it for its intent.Will buy again and highly recommend. Many other formats for the files are available, also. While the Pen for the cyberpad looks and feels a little awkward at first, you are able to quickly adapt to it and it does not cramp my hand or make it tired.Not only would I receommend the Cyberpad, but have. If you want a digitiizer or hi-res graphics pad, go buy one for $500 - $1000. I take notes, lots of notes, because I remember what I hear and see but need notes to prove what was said at times to others.
This pad is great for what it is made to do, capture notes and basic graphics. Several people at work are buying them and the quality department is interested in the smaller version for the inspectors to use to maintain didgital records of inspections and finds.The downloaded files can be emailed and everyone can open a PDF. However, finding what I need in written notes is a task.Now, that problem is solved. I am not a PDA or Day Planner kind of guy. The notes are easy to keep as PDF files, can be labeled and made searchable.
I still have a lot of experimenting to do with the software but it does show a lot of promise.Several reviews were crtical of the resolution of the pad.
The driver for the PC tablet aspect works seamlessly in ppt presentations, allowing me to make annotations directly on the slide. On the other hand, I installed the driver on the PC environment under the Mac (VMWare Fusion) and it also works well.All in all, pretty good buy for the money. I have been very pleasantly surprised with the working of the Cyberpad. The note taking capabilities as stand alone is also excellent and intuitive to use.My only concern is that as I own a MacBook Pro, it would be nice to also have the driver for Mac's OS.
I dont give two hoots about being able to convert to text. So why did I give this four stars.I am organizationally challenged. I am a 6'2" guy with oversized hands, and it feels uncomfortable in my hands. Plus I have been doing a better job of keeping track of my hard copies which gives me two choices to view my notes.All in all I love this product, but it isn't perfect. You can get around this by using Blueeuclid (http://www.blueeuclid.com/). The pen is HUGE. The software stinks.
I think I could get a few buddies together, and in a few weeks, we could probably write better software than some of the ones provided. One note is another review all in itself, but I love it. I hope this has helped you make your decision. They charge $5.99 for a license. I can take my written notes and organize them however I wish, add links to my voice recorded lectures that I take from my digital recorder and BAM, "insta" organize. These notes are not all text, but graphs, equations with Greek letters, integration symbols etc. I have this ornate ability to write something down, and in two minutes, I can not find it.
There is no way I would even think of buying a tablet PC, so this was my only choice. With a little practice, I got used to it. This program allows you to import your notes directly to Microsoft One Note.For me, the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. I am a chemistry graduate student who takes tons of notes. Now I just take my notes, and with the purchase of a third party program, I import it directly into MS one note. I do not know if a person with petite hands would ever feel comfortable using the pen or not.
The software is difficult to use and very proprietary, and calling Tech support will get you nowhere. This converter is also a crappy piece of software. I cannot recommend this product. THey want extra money for a converter to export your notes to Onenote 2007.
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