The fabric is flat and excellent

Having worked for years in professional Wacom tablet and a tablet for the home searched, my decision was made after ample Compare on Bamboo. Would that kind of Master III Hanvon already been available at the time, the Bamboo would have drawn the short straw. Now Wacom has been lucky, because it was not verfübar. But you should take a closer look at Hanvon that offer very competitive products.
What I like the Bamboo and why I have decided:
- The build quality of the tablet is excellent, it makes a high quality impression to the touch
- It is flat, and the edges are rounded
- It has just the right size for a home desktop
- Did I mention how terrific it is flat ...?
- The driver is neat! It has a lot of settings for the virtual desktop or the stylus (on Windows 7)
- With LiveBrush a simple but effective small Vektormalprogramm is included to quickly scribble something nice can
- Per Download Code can ArtRage, Photoshop Elements, Corel Painter Essentials 2 and Bamboo Tools Download
- The dissolution of the tablets is in my opinion sufficient unless you're illustrator or graphic designer.
- It is affordable

To pin
It's a matter of taste with the pins, some love the chunky heavy pins the Intuos3 series, I myself have never been a fan of it so. One can also not even just the pin terminals between 3 fingers to time to do just by touch input. I have worked for several years with the big Intuos3 pens and am glad that the Bamboo not accompanied by such. The Bamboo pen is easy, has no finger grooves and still makes no cheap impression. The buttons have a pleasant well-defined pressure point and above all the buttons do not fall continuously from, as is the case with the Intuos3 pen. It has 2 free configurable buttons on the side, which are within easy reach.

To pin face / tablet surface
Anyone who has worked with a Intous3, will be surprised to find that the surface of the tablet is not smooth, but slightly rough. After a few days use, I must say that I like that very well. The surface feels very comfortable for the fingers, and the stylus has a feeling similar to paper.
However, the pen expression must be a joke. After less than one month use it has already seen about worn half a millimeter. That takes the Intuous several months until it has worn down. There probably needs to come in the money again. By contrast, the tablet surface has no grooves. For intensive use with a lot of pressure Intuos3 in my experience after 2 years, highly visible ruts, I think, the Bamboo is likely to be the case due to the rough surface very much. But it does show the long-term test.

For multitouch
I take it once in one word: enough. Browser such as Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox on Windows 7 react sometimes quite slow on wiping movements to side scrolling, zooming is an unreasonable Ruckelei between zoom levels, Photoshop CS5 reacts extremely! sluggish and slow to rotate and zoom movements. Overall, multi-touch operation is not to be used, which simply takes all too long. Who once had one of the various multi-touch Apple products in hand, will be disappointed. At the computer, it will not be (Windows Experience Index 7.4). Easy operation by touch, however, is okay.

Combination pen / touch
That's an interesting point, I asked myself whether the cooperation of pen / hand function smoothly. Fortunately, it works just fine. The tablet has a light bar that glows white. Once the pen is within range (approximately 0.5 cm above the tablet), it changes to pale orange and pen input is enabled. Touches the hand without the Tablet pen, it lights up in white. So you get a visual feedback about the input method directly on the tablet. The pen has always priority over the hand. Working with two input methods, works quite easily. Will I use the hand, lifting and I clamp the stylus horizontally between thumb / index / middle finger and then use the thumb and middle finger for gesture control, for example, to rotate the image in Photoshop by hand. So it goes far enough to lift the pen to time to do just by touch something.

Of course you can also switch off the Touch Control manually, I simply assigned me to one of the 4 freely configurable buttons accordingly.

The Apps
Nice gimmick, after 2 days, the Bamboo Dock but fall quickly from the Startup out and forgotten.

Overall, I am very satisfied with the Bamboo, although the multi-touch control is not really as expected and disappointed. That one and can work on with your finger, I find but still quite handy. The flat design makes working very comfortable and the driver provides more detailed settings.
In addition to the multitouch (Windows) the fast wearing pin faces are a point of criticism.