Wacom Graphire Bluetooth 6 x 8-Inch Tablet
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| | Customer Reviews: Good tablet for beginners (20 August 2010)I bought this tablet new in 2006. I had never used a tablet before, and I wanted one for digitally coloring my hand-drawn art. It has been dropped, stepped on, sat on, kicked, splashed with water/tea/soda/etc, forgotten, and just about anything a teen could do to this tablet. It still works great. If you're concerned about the "low" 512 levels of pressure sensitivity vs the newest Intuos4's 2048 levels let me tell you this - I've used both tablets and I noticed very little difference. Unless you are a professional artist I'm sure you won't notice enough difference to spend the extra cash. If you're a beginner artist/tablet user, hobbyist, or looking to buy something for your child or teen this is the perfect tablet for you. Cons: The tablet will shut off at random for no apparent reason. Minor inconvenience. Every time I set it to another computer I have to reset it (not plug-and-play). The surface is plastic and scratches somewhat easily, and the pen likes to catch in the scratches causing much frustration when trying to draw "that perfect line". It is laggy compared to wired tablets, but if this is your first tablet you won't notice. The mouse it comes with sucks and I threw it out the first week. You're better off using a optical mouse. (Tablet works great as a mousepad.) Pros; It still holds a charge after using it 10 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 4 years. The pen still works and I've never replaced it. You can use it as a replacement for a mouse. The pen has right and left click buttons. Portable and wire free. Perfect lap sized. It survived me, and I break furniture. (I'm what you'd call a bull in a china shop.) So if this is your first tablet and you're looking to buy a beginner drawing tablet for yourself or your child, but don't want to spend a ton of cash I'd highly recommend this tablet. If you're a medium-advance artist or if you're looking for a cheap Wacom tablet because your off-brand one broke, I'd suggest looking into the Bamboo Fun Pen&Touch (7.5" x 5.1") or Bamboo Pen&Touch (5.8" x 3.6"). For an advance tablet user, I wonder why you're even looking at this page; go look at the Intuos4 or Cintiq tablets. Remote Whiteboard Interface (22 March 2010)I got this to test the idea of building your own White(Bright) board. I got the idea from reading the following article: [ Build Your Own Board - Brightboards Offer a Cost-Effective Alternative to Interactive Whiteboards ... by Keith Vallis and Peter Williamson in the August 2009 issue of Learning and Leading with Technology. ] [...]/ --- The install went well, and took a short time for the battery to charge up so that I could test it out. The tablet worked well remotely of up to 30 feet away. The tablet has a pen holder. The remote mouse needs an eyelet so that you could hook it to a lanyard and hang around your neck (if you want remote mouse capabilities). You can rotate the tablet for use. I have been playing with Prezi ([...]) and need to pull the tablet out and see if creating handwritten entries on the presenation works well or not. Wacom Graphire Tablet (01 February 2010)This tablet was purchased as a part of a cheap whiteboard solution for our new conference room. It works great! The Bluetooth works anywhere in the conference room and you can save the data to a file. Really Great Product (25 December 2009)I used to carry and IBM/Lenovo tablet PC to school for taking notes in OneNote and to work for taking notes during meetings. As it got older and other machines got faster, I switched to a MacBook Pro 13" with its brighter screen, faster processor, and well-built design. However, I found that writing on paper then transcribing my notes to the MacBook got annoying really fast (Johns Hopkins profs don't like typing in their classes, plus writing formulas with a keyboard is a pain, hence all the handwriting). Anyway, I searched on-line for a tablet "replacement" and stumbled on this device. It has been a lifesaver in class and at work. It's bluetooth, so I'm able to use it easily, whether I'm at my MacBook (where I can see the screen while drawing) or somewhere else within the room (where it's a tougher and I have to use my imagination to figure out where I'm writing/drawing). I find that I can use it either in OS X or in Windows 7 (where I'm using Parallels 5 to run Win7 in Crystal Mode). The handwriting recognition in OS X totally blows so I'm mostly in OneNote to take my notes and get handwriting recognition, while I'm mostly in OS X to do any of the fancy drawing and picture type work. In both cases, I can use the tablet's pen to get everything done. If I get tired of the pen and just want to surf the web and goof off, I can use the included mouse on the tablet's pad like a regular USB mouse. I've even found that the tablet is the perfect size to fit on top of my MacBook's keyboard -- it's almost like I'm using my IBM tablet PC. Highly recommended if you do any kind of pen-type work! wacom tablets and pens (04 November 2009)The pens do not like to be dropped , handle with care. But for work they are sturdy , I have used them since they came onto the market. My original tablet is a windows 95 model and still works just fine , I wound up taping the connectors to the tablet after years of work. I dropped the pen for my new Bamboo and that cost me 30 bucks here at Amazon. Wacom has a first class tech service by email./ phone. I disassembled the pen that broke , they are manufactured to a high standard , the board inside of the pen is nice. Breaks occur around a coil at pen tips , this is how they usually die. They are repairable but at 30 each for the low end I just bought a new one instead. |
