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So the battery life is really bad, one day you can work without wires, to work on the next must with. So is more or less a back and forth. Those who do not depend on it every night, has the next day cable required! Even me all power-saving features, I use no LEDs on the Tablet and energy-saving function is activated after 1 minute.
Recommendations for the Intuos 5 L = cable instead of wireless. Use or tablet and mouse, wireless mouse, hold wesentich longer through. I personally like it just does not always grab back and forth.
How is the consumption of the smaller variants M and S, I do not know.