With a click of the pen's rocker switch, which substitutes for the left and right button on a mouse, I could uncover new cards. Solitaire, in short, moved much faster and became more fun without the need to roll a mouse around on a pad. Minesweeper was a different story. For those who've never tried this addicting puzzle game, the objective is clicking on tiny squares to search out and mark hidden bombs. Moving the cursor to the center of these tiny squares, I found, was harder with the pen.
Minesweeper also involves simultaneous pointing and clicking, an easier task with a mouse.
So Minesweeper become more difficult and less fun with a pen. Moving into more serious terrain, I tried the pen with a drawing program created by Sony called PictureToy and with the photo-editing program Adobe Photoshop LE, bundled with the LX900. PictureToy, as the name implies, isn't capable of delivering much more than child-like sketches. But the process of drawing directly on the screen with a pen makes perfect sense. Also, the tablet is pressure sensitive.