Plenty of tablets come with a mouse mode, so it's just down to the limits of your budget.

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The ZPen also has no mouse mode and the software lacks a few features of the IOGEAR product, most important among these are searching for text in a note (promised as a free download coming soon), and another being the ability to quickly copy pieces of a note to the Clipboard.

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Uncheck "Grab mouse in emulation mode" and "Use mouse as a controller" if you plan on using a gamepad.

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