If I’ve not sold you on these things – and I swear I’m not a shill – I imagine some of the examples later in the series will.  So let me just get it out now: my advice on choosing a tablet if you decide you want one.  I’m no professional tablet man, so take my advice for what it is – just one video guy talking to another.

There are a handful of companies making tablet products, but the long-time industry leader is Wacom.  Their hardware doesn’t require much TLC, it’s packed to the gills with productivity features, it plays nicely with a whole array of input devices, and it will outlive you.  Well, maybe not you, but it will outlive, say, your pet ferret.  Having played with friends’ off-brand tablets, and felt how heavy pens can get with batteries in them, and been annoyed by their strange calibrations, I think I’d definitely stay brand-loyal if I were to buy another.