Only for beginners really recommendable

A successor to the somewhat somewhat outdated Wacom Intuos 3 was needed - should not have to, because a Wacom product is indestructible so quickly. There were probably more curiosity on the touch control and the desire for the wireless option, which led the professional image-editing, time to try a class under the Intuos with the Bamboo Pen & Touch, including wireless kit. To make a long story short: it remained at a few-day interlude and today is an Intuos 4 Wireless on the desk. The Bamboo is undoubtedly quite nice, useful and scores with a fair price-performance ratio. But compared to the tablet class about it due to the price too many small weaknesses that add up so that I took distance from it, to want to use it for daily professional use. It begins with an alleged bite on how the fact that no pen holder is available for the pen. Since the pin has no roll-away, rolling the part when dropping back and forth and eventually it would be guaranteed by the table jumbled. But thank God you have a resourceful eight year old at home, the hastily built a pen holder made of Lego for Papa. Super Filius, I love you - but Wacom why so lacks a practical part? The side of the Bamboo mounted retaining tab is in turn too tight, as that one wants to keep the inside matching only with gentle emphasis pin except when transporting the whole board therein.

The next small drawback is the pen itself. It is just not really perfectly in the hand, leaving a trace is easy to grip little too slim and due to lack of rubber and lack breakpoint thickening. In addition to me the function key was too high, so I had to involuntarily looking with your finger while sliding awkward up and down on the pen. This has annoyed me already after ten minutes, in the long run it would have been a no-go. Then the Wireless Accessory Kit Battery: The is characterized by at least a much too low runtime. As a result, the feeble-looking USB charging cable hung half the day yet again between tablet and computer. So what is the wireless option, if I do not have time for long distances? Overnight on current computer load and generate so unnecessary power consumption - for me no alternative.

Finally, then gave another circumstance decisive to send the Bamboo constant pede back again. There have been repeated before, that the pin unused was somewhere next to the tray or I motionless held it in my hand and suddenly developed the cursor on the screen a mysterious life of its own: jumped wildly hither, sometimes an open marked folder, they entmarkierte again etc. Only deleted the ghost cursor fortunately has nothing. I no longer gave him then the chance it might still do, and the last official act of the congregation there, an Intuos 4 Wireless was to order. This arrived today and suddenly I'm back arrived in graphics tablet "home", find the super solid Wacom tablet and stylus quality, look forward to the professionally-designed features and love after just one hour. Exchange excluded!
Who now thinks that one can not compare the two tablet classes, all the right. The Bamboo namely I might give my son when he is sixteen and begins to be interested in graphics or image editing. Or I would recommend it for the best semi-professional home use. And so it makes its envisaged target group as an entry product in the Wacom world probably. For the demands of professionals but we prefer to go a notch higher, giving as a worthwhile investment of more money and get a 100% professional in every respect product. I would want the Bamboo pen holder, an ergonomically-designed pen better, a better battery level performance and the eradication of strange "ghost control", which occurred at least on my tray. Because for the price the Bamboo is actually an attractive thing. Very praise is even supplied and via download for relating software package. Especially with Artrage and Corel Painter Essentials are really useful and serious character programs, on the one hand to illustrate the advantages of dealing with a tablet and on the other hand would like to create a climate at creative. Here could so many future artists discover his destiny - only he would probably just upgrade sooner or later when it "seriously" is professional, on an Intuos or Other. The class plays about just not when purely external impression of quality in a different league, it also offers twice as much pressure levels and other useful benefits.

Conclusion:. For the moderate price is a good entry-level tablet with the interesting features Wireless and Touch Control as well as with attractive software bundle But it satisfies in processing and can probably really only the beginner fully. If you need more, you have to spend even more, but it's worth it all decided by an increase in value, in meaningful ways, and performance.