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I have never used one and was confused on what type of medium to write on. The Pen-It web site is rather incomplete ...
No, it is not incomplete. You have to read your own links and the links that I posted in my reply.
I found several web sites stating that the Logitech pen is not supported for OS X (unfortunately):
I have dealt with this issue already. FWIW, my new Logitech webcam is not supported by the manufacturer with MacOS X. However, it "just works" with MacOS X because Logitech fully supports USB. Reread my previous post.
You seem to prefer commentaries over primary source for your information. At some point, you are going to have to learn to think for yourself.
Sorry, since I didn't seen any visual demos of these products in action it was hard to understand what those notebooks were for.
I have explained this to you. Admittedly, I have the advantage of having used ancient optical mice that require mousepads with a grids printed on their glide surfaces. The digital pens use paper like the old optical mice use their mousepads.
Since those notebooks have a limited number of pages, I guess that one can not use them infinitely.
If you had bothered to read the link to the Logitech online store, then you would know that you replace the notebooks when the old ones are used up. At approximately $11 per pack, they are not that much more expensive than standard spiral-bound composition books.
Am wondering if these products just take a snap shot of the image drawn (and converts it into a an image format such as a JPEG, TIFF, PNG, and / or GIF)?
Also, does it convert the hand written text into actual text on to a computer where one can use a text editor to (save, edit, copy, paste) the contents?
Or is it just a scanned image?
Who cares? A digital pen is an input device, not a file format. The files will use whichever format that is supported by the application you use with the pen. I presume that both Windows and the Mac implementations of digital ink will accept its input.
What's the different between A5 and A4 notebooks?
A4 and A5 are standard paper sizes. You see them every time you do a Page Setup in your print driver.
Yeah, what's depressing is that all my searches on Google refer to the Pen-It products as being in "Beta" format and also that it crashes sometimes on Intel-based Macs running on OS X, read somewhere that a stable version will be available in 2008.
You don't need Google. You have primary sources. You just refuse to read them and to use that information to think for yourself.
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I figured someone on this forum might know of a better digital pen (for OS X) than Pen-It.
Pen-it is a bundle. The digital pen included in the bundle is manufactured by Maxell, a very reputable manufacturer of data storage media.
Again, MisterMe, thank you for responding and I hope my explanation clarifies my inquiries (please believe me that I was not being lazy in my original posting - I just didn't know how these things work).
Not knowing how things work is not an excuse for not doing your own research. You linked to all the websites that you needed, but then did not read them. Everything in my previous posts came from the Logitech website, the
Pen-it website, and the Amazon.com website. All information there was accessible to you.
I also agree with you regarding the $400 price being a little too steep for a seemingly beta product.
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$400 is an awful lot of money to put into such a small device. I would never spend that kind of money on someone else's say-so. Read the information available to you from the primary sources.