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28 Jun, 2017
Lightweight, Good Size, and Great features
I still have an intuos pen from undergrad (it's basically brand new because I used it for one year then kept it in it's case the last 5 or 6 years), but had no tablet to use for it. I'm in grad school now at the same school that had the Wacom lab. Unfortunately for me, they updated the lab to use the newer Wacom computers, which meant my pen doesn't work on them anymore. I wished I could have bought one of the old Wacom's from them, but they switched the summer before I started school. I looked around online to figure out what types of tablets I can use my pen on, and this was one of the models, and the most affordable model for me. I am very pleased with it and it works exactly as expected, and as smoothly as I remembered. Knowing that this is an old model now, I can't even imagine how top-notch the newer models must be. I know this tablet will get me by for a few years, though, and I am very happy with it. I got by for many years doing graphic design without needing this pen because most of my work was in Illustrator and InDesign, and only small manipulations in Photoshop. Now I'm doing concept art completely in Photoshop, so a mouse wasn't cutting it anymore. The only thing I haven't figured out yet, is how to program the buttons to do what I want them to in Photoshop. I've programmed them for general usage, but not for what they do in Photoshop.
My only complaint: There are SO. MANY. CORDS. The tablet has a thick cord to plug into an outlet for power, then a cord to plug from the tablet to a converter box, then another cord to go from the converter box to your computer. This does not work without the converter box. And, unfortunately for me, I am going to have to buy a 4th cord to convert the video cord into an HDMI so that I can hook it up to my new laptop. I have been using this connected to a 2012 version of a Lenovo Idea Pad. I cannot connect it to my Lenovo Flex 4 yet.