As a result you are forced to choose between touch or a high quality display, so this new tablet bridges that gap. While I’d still rather a touch screen for those activities, the best displays on the market for photographers (at the time of this writing) do not support touch. This new version changes that by allowing you to use a toggle button to change the behavior of the tablet from a pen writing surface to a touch pad – much like you get with the built-in touch pad on a Macbook Pro. In this new era of touch everywhere devices, one place where things were a bit clunky with pen tablets was that there was no mechanism for doing natural touch gestures like swipe. The medium tablet I use is roughly 5% larger than its predecessor and it’s a little heavier, but the buttons are nicely spaced out and it gains a big new feature – touch. The drawing area is roughly the same size, and the number of buttons and wheel are the same. So my first comment about this tablet has to be “it’s the one where wireless REALLY works”!!! Beyond that reality, you get a tablet that performs in a manner that is similar to its predecessor. Even on my sometimes quirky machine, it’s been rock solid for more than a month without a single failure – even on Windows! While it does stink to lose a USB port, the reward is that this is rock solid reliable wireless based on my testing.
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The new version seems to have learned from the mistakes of the past and has moved away from the unreliable BlueTooth design to a new WiFi design that works like a typical wireless mouse or keyboard where you attach a dongle to your USB port. However, as someone coming from a Intuos 4 Wireless the differences are huge! Now it’s my understanding that the Intuos 5, which I didn’t own, had the wireless kit that kicked off the improvements. However, when I talk to Intuos owners about the new tablet the first thing we start talking about is the unreliability of the wireless in previous generations. Since I review a lot of products and pollute my system with a lot of third party software, I figured it was just my machine being flaky. The tablet worked great when it was plugged in – but the wireless? Yeah, that was a feature that was cool when it worked, but that was a rare event based on my past experience. If you own one of these tablets prior to the Intuos 5 with the wireless kit, you know EXACTLY what I’m talking about – especially on Windows. However, there’s one feature that has been included in my last couple of review units that never quite worked the way I hoped it would – WIRELESS! I’ve been using Wacom tablets since before the Intuos line came out, but it wasn’t until the Intuos 3 that I really started to love them.
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Wacom Intuos Pro Professional Pen & Touch Tablet (Medium)