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Wacom Bamboo Slate Smartpad Digital Notebook – Works With Paper and Pen Boogie Board LCD Writing Tablet – Electronic Notepad With Pen Rocketbook Wirebound Notebook – Comes With Reusable Pages (The other possibility is that they're getting ready to drop support for it entirely. That suggests to me that they may be working on introducing something new to do with it Real Soon Now. The last thing I found while searching this is that Apple has mysteriously taken down all its customer-facing Inkwell pages. This guy suggests that he was able to get his Genius G-Pen working by manually finding and opening the Ink preference pane - it worked on the output of the Genius tablet even though it didn't automatically open. However, Mac's handwriting recognition technology is called Inkwell, and it is sitting in your OS ready to be used in a lot of tablets. I don't see that Wacom is currently offering a notepad meant to be used with paper, though. When you link up the Bamboo via Bluetooth it will automatically open the Ink preference pane. In general Wacom has been Apple's only tablet manufacturer for more years than I'd like to count. One thing worth knowing is that the Wacom Bamboo is a recent tablet that makes a big deal of its Mac compatibility. The give-away is that each one has a small display and 4 buttons in the top-left-hand corner (even though the Genius is landscape-oriented.) Looking on the Web it seems pretty clear to me that none of these tablets are Mac compatible.

Posted by Wild_Eep at 9:26 AM on November 29, 2007īest answer: I'm pretty sure that the 5 tablets you mentioned are all basically repackagings of the same hardware. It syncs with my Mac just fine via USB, and they're wicked-cheap. Personally, I've had great luck in the past with an old Palm V with a Palm V keyboard connected to it. Highly Recommended for tech-heavy meetings.

We use this method to record meeting minutes at my Mac User Group's board meetings. The coolest notetaking I've ever used though is SubEthaEdit which allows your open note document to be edited live with anyone else at your meeting who also uses SubEthaEdit. CircusPonies also makes a well respected program called NoteBook. If you're looking for something more portable, use TextEdit and save to RTF. Microsoft word has a 'notebook' view in Word2004 that makes taking notes easier. If the notes you take are merely written words, with no diagrams, just type them on a laptop. I believe the model number for the Mac-compatible version is 500M. Take the notes on actual paper (which is the best medium for freeform notes anyway), then scan them into your mac with a fujitsu scansnap.

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