Expensive disappointment

Expensive disappointment

Wacom Cintiq COMPANION 5 (Personal Computers)

Customer Review

After unpacking the product I was fasssungslos as flawed and inconsistent the product has been designed to:
During the first half hour, in which I took the tablet in use, I have four times inadvertently placed the device into hibernation because the Standby button at the Rechtshändernutzung bottom right is right on the edge of the tablet, and not in a plane with the tablet, but goes to the outside and is considered activated even a slight touch.
So I went quickly on to turn the tablet, which I though the practical se onboard buttons had on the right, after all, now remained but the tablet and saves me typing constantly renewed my keys.
After a Photoshop test version was installed, the anger grew. The pen tablet transmission was at best flawed even after repeated recalibration. Especially on the screen edges, the cursor is inaccurate (up to 4mm), so I partially closed window, rather than minimizing it or the color picker in Photoshop could not use it properly.
Vertical tablet was anyway not to use. Here the calibration was so flawed that I could not even click "retry" with the pen because I would have had to move the pen for outside the Bildschrimrandes. The distance between the pen tip and cursor was 7 cm in approx.
In any other use, there were annoyances when entering text in open forms. Here frequently obscured the integrated keyboard after opening the fill-text fields.
Under the menu item "tutorials" there is a whole series certainly helpful videos. However, all of which are intended for the Companion hybrid - so the Androidvariante.
Last important point, which has led to the exchange of the product and a lot of dissatisfaction was the lack Alt key on the integral keypad. While an onboard button has "old", but will probably almost every user want to assign these buttons again. In my case, here was the need for a Ctrl + Alt + Z (go back in Photoshop). But this is absolutely impossible to implement, since the program for the keyboard shortcuts do not respond to the on-board buttons.
Anyone who takes it, it was surely everything is meaningful as it so you do not have too many buttons that spamming the screen that is sure to enjoy all the different Avatars, who got on the keyboard very own menu item, while "Alt" or "Esc" are not even represented among the special characters.
Of course, this problem could be with an external keyboard fix, but I expect in a product in this price range that is best adapted to the normal use and not I as a user need to adapt myself to the device. Each of the above points to be possibly unacceptable. In the Summer, I am sorry to say that it was the biggest disappointment of the year.
As the second biggest disappointment I would mention briefly the little brother: the Companion hybrid.
With a maximum edge length of approximately 2000 px in the offered graphics programs, I wonder the following:
For whom the product is being developed, which is too bad for the professional use and too expensive for hobby use?
Yours sincerely
Timo Becker

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