Writing Chinese on the PC

Mom was asking about Chinese input on the PC so I promised I'd look up one of those writing pad systems for her. I knew that Pacific Mall usually has them for sale at some store or another, and sure enough, I wasn't disappointed. I picked up one of these USB pads for $50+tax:

蒙恬科技 Penpower 晶鑽小蒙恬

It supports Simplified Chinese, HK Chinese, Traditional Chinese and even some Japanese. It will voice what you write in your choice of Cantonese or Mandarin. Seems to be a pretty friendly device and even recognises my chicken-scratches as appropriate Chinese characters. Software installation was as simple as popping in a CD and a reboot, then plugging in the pad.

Anyways, I am done playing with it and hopefully Mom will be able to make use of it.

Allen.