I've been looking at an on-screen solution for drawing, and as much as I like Wacom tablets, they just aren't as portable as I wanted. So I did some digging around and found this HP TM2 Tablet PC, which is MultiTouch and Wacom Penabled. Cost was about half of the Cintiq 21UX. Had a little bit of an issue with the Multitouch drivers conflicting with the pen drivers, so I disabled the touch portion of it and it works fine. This tablet operates in portrait or landscape, however, you have to push a button to switch the orientation. Not a big deal. I have a couple other Wacom tablets, (Bamboo and Intuos) but never really got the hang of the hand-eye coordination that these tablets require, and it just didn't seem natural.
After a few practice drawing sessions, I found that in Illustrator and Photoshop, without an actual keyboard, some aspects of the drawing process were a little bit clunky and it became apparent that I needed some macros or hotkeys to program for repetitive functions. I did some searching and found the Logitech G13. It works like a charm. No need for a real keyboard (the on-screen keyboard works just fine for most text input), and the multiple profiles and 25 programmable keys will definitely come in handy.
Anyhow, I just thought I'd share in case you are an artist looking for a similar solution.
