Product Description

Bamboo Make Your Mark The documents you create or review dont have to be like all the rest. With the Bamboo pen tablet made by Wacom its personal. Its paper-like work surface and the battery-free pen with ergonomic feel provides a natural user experience. A Touch Ring allows you to instantly zoom and scroll in applications. Navigation now becomes even faster with the 360-degree pan/scroll mode and four customisable blue-illuminated ExpressKeys for frequently used functions while the high resolution and report rate of Bamboo provide outstanding accuracy while working. Bamboo helps you to make the most of your computer, unlocking an exciting array of new of features in the Microsoft Vista operation system. Digital inking, signatures and sticky notes allow individual note taking and editing in your handwriting. If you prefer working with Mac OS, using Inkwell gives you similar opportunities. With its modern black surface and blue-illuminated function keys, Bamboo makes a statement, showing your style.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #231 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Wacom
• Model: MTE450KEN
• Released on: 2007-05-21

Features

• add handwritten notes
• personalise e-mails with your signature
• draw sketches or doodles to get your point across

Customer Reviews

Ideal Entry Level Tablet
Like many this was my first tablet. For the price, you can't go wrong, it works like a charm. Sure it's missing some features, but this is an _entry level_ tablet.

Pros:
Good price
Looks the business
Up and running in minutes
Works very well in all the applications I tried:
Photoshop, ArtRage, Sketchbook Pro

Cons (some only minor):
No spare nibs
No application specific setup on the tablet functions (you'll need an Intuos for that)
Pen button a little too high up the pen for me at first
Pen could benefit from being a just a little heavier
Takes a little time to get used to right mousing
You miss your scroll wheel not being 'right there' at first
Shiny parts on tablet pick up finger prints a little too easy
You'll be hooked and will want to upgrade to an Intuos! ;)
Your mouse will feel like a brick after the deftness of using a pen!

Some people have had issues with the Bamboo not showing pressure sensitive behaviour in Photoshop, remember you MUST plug the tablet in BEFORE you run the installer. If that doesn't solve it, try deleting your preferences using the 'Pen Tablet File Preference Utility' that comes with the install.

In summary, an excellent first tablet for those needing basic pressure sensitivity and a natural feel, or for those wishing to try out if they can convert without the expense of an Intuos tablet.

Highly recommended.

Great Tablet for Vista
first off, note this tablet has an A5 sized work area, but maps itself to the screen you have (I'm using it on a 27" and its more than fine).
It has 4 customizable buttons, for ease of use I've set mine to load Firefox, MSN Mesenger, Back and Forward buttons for Web / Folder navigation.
You can pretty much map the buttons to what you want, even a series of keystrokes!

This tablet works with both XP and Vista.

For Vista, it's fantastic.
for XP, its good.

Vista gives a lot more options for use, such as holding down the pen to simulate a double-click, handwriting recognition, quick "flicks" of the pen for scroll up / down and Back / Forward etc.

for XP, it's a standard tablet without the above features.


the pen works without batteries, which is a big plus.
"hovering" the pen around 1/2cm above the tablet enables you to move the curor around, tapping the tablet is the equivalent of a mouse click.

Its a little weird to being with, but after about 30 minutes getting used to it, I've found its much quicker (and feels more natural) than using a mouse; Both at work and at home my mouse is now pretty muich redundant!

for art/animation; everything from doodling in Paint to full-on Flash production, this pen is so simple and precise to use.

Simple to install, easy to use, much more precise than using a mouse, this tablet is such good value for money it's unreal. 5 stars.

A revelation for photo editing
I've using photoshop type programs for years and the high cost of quality tablets put me off buying one until now. Some reviews I read about this product slated it, but I bought one anyway and I'm so glad I did! This thing is amazing once you get used to it. Making selections, dodging and burning etc in Photoshop is so much easier and accurate with this. I haven't used my mouse since I got this a couple months ago. Highly recommended and amazing value for money!