After multiple attempts in trying to make the digitizer accurate using calibration technique, I finally decided to give up. There's no way I can make the digitizer work as smooth as I want. In fact, 75% of the Eee Slate screen doesn't a better digitizing job than ThinkPad Yoga. It's a shame cause it's so close, but I can't accept getting such inferior digitizer after putting down US$1500.
So I going back to using EeeSlate as the portable drawing device, and use Wacom tablet with my desktop PC when I am drawing at home.
It's a shame as I was enjoying using ThinkPad Yoga so much that even considered bring Wacom tablet with me to compensate the problem digitizer. The problem of that screen is that if not all areas are perfect, then I will get distracted and frustrated as I draw at one spot and the line shows up at another spot. I even tried to focus on the crosshair instead of the stylus tip when I draw, but then I was like, doesn't that the same experience as using Wacom tablet board, PLUS the confusion deal to my eyes seeing things that does NOT match with what my hand tried to do? It's destroy my drawing experience, which was the main purpose of getting the tablet.
In addition, I found that I really didn't use laptop much. When I am in the office I can use office laptop. When I am at home I have 2 desktop computer on my desk, one Mac one PC and they are more than sufficient for my need. And when I am outdoor, Eee Slate with mouse, keyboard and USB 3.0 harddisk seemed more than enough to do all I need to do. Come to think of it, I didn't really use ThinkPad Yoga much even though I brought ThinkPad Yoga to the office every day.
Another problem: even after I calibrate the screen in landscape mode, touch points got off after I turned the machine in portrait and rotate landscape mode. I tried both lock orientation and without, and I still got the same problem.
So I am resetting the machine now and will head out to return the machine. So long, ThinkPad Yoga.
So what other options do I have? None as of now. SP3 won't work for me even with i7. Sony Viao Pro 13 has good potential as many reviews praise the accuracy of the digitizer, but the fact that Sony is phrasing out all their inventory tells me that I won't get much support with Viao, and I had a lot of horrible experience with Viao. I also don't want ANYTHING that I can't try locally at store, so it shunted out a lot of options.
So as for now, I'll just go for Eee Slate, until someone some company figure out a way to serve graphic artist customer properly.
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