[citation][nom]maestintaolius[/nom]Well, that 'kind of' exists as the Cintiq line effectively as LCD displays built into an Intuos, but you better have a money tree in your back yard if you want one. A 500$ wacom tablet seems really unlikely considering how much they charge for just their Intuos lines.[/citation]
[citation][nom]ravewulf[/nom]You can buy touch laptops that have Wacom digitizers built into their screens. I have an HP tx2517cl with the Wacom "Penabled" sticker on it. HP doesn't make them anymore, but you can get similar laptops from Lenovo and other manufacturers.[/citation]
the way that im thinking, is that tablets, at least drawing tablets, are specialty items, and cost more because of it. no one is buying them in bulk.
but if you put the tech to a tablet (what most people think of when you say tablet) the tech should come down significantly in price. i would pay an extra 100$ for an ipad or such for a wacom quality pen interface, but i dont want to pay close to 900-1700$ extra for it (what they currently charge for a 12 inch display is 1000, and a 1600x1200 21 inch is 2000)
that said there is a pen for ipad they make, going to look into that a bit more, even if its just a more accurate finger replacement.