Well, Wack-com wants $164 plus shipping to do the upgrade, and it's only available to owners of "Intuos and Intuos2 12x12 & 12x18 tablets". Not much help to the majority of users with the Artz tablets. But it dose provide a cheaper path to owners of the mentioned tablets. However, thats a steep price for what it is!
Griffin technology have created drivers to make their imate work under OSX.
http://griffintechnology.com/softwar...are_imate.html
Unfortunetly unless the third party manufacturer provides support for OSX it's really just about useless.
Taken directly from Griffin's website: "iMate is completely compatible with Apple's latest operating system, OS X. Drivers are available now and can be downloaded here:
http://griffintechnology.com/softwar...are_imate.html
However, this does not necessarily mean that your device attached to iMate is OS X compatible.
Be sure to check with the manufacturer of your ADB device to see if they support OS X. If they do, then you can use it with our iMate ADB-to-USB Adapter."
I know drivers could probablly be made to allow these ADB tablets to work properly under X. Darwin, the core of OSX which is a derivitive of Unix. Can be modified to support ADB devices and allow OSX users to install the modified kernal or whichever portion needs changing to allow all ADB devices to work as far as I know. The Linux comunity has been manipulating it's OS like this for years. So I really can't see why it can't be done, and done stable.
Apple just wants to leave the old stuff behind, but strangely, Microsoft has never removed support for it's old ports. Even in Windows XP! Why? Why else? To support their users and their investments. If you have a Windows PC you could use the imate adapter and run your ADB tablet on it. And XP isnt a bad system, it's ugly, but it's not bad. I would'nt go out and buy a windows system just for my tablet though, thats just silly. But if your in the market for one, it's an option for you.
That and booting into OS9.
Since i'm not loyal to any OS. I have no reserves using Windows or any other OS that provides what i need. There are benefits and negitives to each system. Personally I still enjoy OSX over XP, but I have found XP more favourable in some instances, especially in the game market! Which I enjoy. But Also with the x86 hardware. If I could have OSX on X86 hardware I would be very happy.