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(More customer reviews)This tablet will let you point and drag far more acurately than a good mouse or trackball. That being said this tablet is clearly inferior to even older wacom tablets in a few ways, but it is much less expensive. As a second tablet in a family or small office this tablet could provide all the features of a more expensive tablet by swaping it. ;)
Unlike the Wacom models this tablet pen requires a battery but a battery seems to last many many hours as I have not had to replace the first one yet.
If you need a tablet and are a general computer user, graphics or photo enthusist and on a budget I'd definitely consider the Cybertablet 6400. It worked well for me creating an animation in flash mx and also worked fine in illustrator. I used it on XP pro. I also used it in linux with gimp and inkscape. ( more below)
It hurts my hands to use mice so I have not tried the mouse. I use trackballs and tablets. Addtionally I don't really use digital tools that use the angle that pen comes in contact with the tablet so I don't have anything to say about it.
The main reason I reach for a tablet is the comfort and Accruacy of useing refined movements of my fingers to control the point of the pen to precisely manipulate digital tools. This tablet and pen will help control where you point and move your tools and you can use it to control the pointer as you would a mouse to change settings and control the desktop.
This tablet will help you place the postion of your digital tool with a similar functionaly to other tablets.
One major difference is in the way the tablet and pen conbination delivers preasure sensitvity. The cybertablet pen tip retracts into the pen body. Pressing the pen tip into the body is how it seems to be 'pressure sensitive'. Certainly one has to apply pressure to get the tip to retract but as it retracts it feels more like pressing in further than pressing harder. It feels like more of a function of distance than presure. I found it easier to attempt to use the pen perpendicuarly to the tablet when using pressure sensitivity.
Wacom pressure sensitiveity is in the tablet not the pen and is more authentically presure sensitive.
LINUX (Gentoo x86, kernel 2.6, kde)
I got rudmentary functionality in linux using the aiptek usb tablet driver. ( As root user type "modprobe aiptek") It has some quriks with maping the screen to the tablet but i found it usable in gimp. Most notablly I needed to place the windows and dialogs about an inch from the edges of the screen as the pointer would ocasionally 'stop short'. This may be related to my mouse acceleration setting in KDE. In linux, pressing in the pen tip translated to a standard left click. Presure sensitivity does not seem to work however. It seems the driver sees it as either pressed or not pressed. This is understandable given the driver was written for another tablet but happens to work with this one. You may be able to tweek things in a config file someplace but given the experience I had with preasure sensitivity in windows it's probably not worth the time to try to figure it out.
I like swiching bettween this tablet and my kensington trackball.
I am an intense comptuer user and so it's also good for fatigue reduction to swich off pointing devices a few times during the day.
If you need a fine control input device and care mainly about where and not how hard then this tablet and pen are fine.
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MODEL- CYBERTABLET-6400 VENDOR- ADESSO INCFEATURES- 6" x 4" Graphics Tablet- Ergonomically designed graphics tablet with scroll mouse for easy drawing handwriting sketching coloring and picture editing. With its 6" x 4" work space the CyberTablet 6400 offers you the freedom of movement and fine-tuned sensitivity to accomplish the most sophisticated computer-aided designing tasks. A powerful yet easy-to-use combination of a pressure-sensitive pen tablet and software lets you naturally draw and write freehand graphics and text as comfortably as you would on real paper.Includes Professional Tablet cordless pressure-sensitive pen wireless3-button scrolling mouse USB cable 2 AA and 1AAA batteries CD-ROM.* Enhance Photos Quickly and easily edit your digital photos using the control of the CyberTablet pen and your free copy of PhotoImpact XL. Take your skills to the next level with this advanced photography software.* Draw and Paint Create great looking artwork with the natural feel of your CyberTablet pen and the amazing capabilities of the control you need to quickly and easily edit your digital photos. It works great with any software your mouse does and runs on both PCs and Macs. * Mark up Sign and More The included CyberTablet pen makes it easy to sketch and write notes in Microsoft Office XP and Apple word processors. Mark up documents in Microsoft Word annotate presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint and even jot a note to friends and family. * Professional Graphics Tablet - USB connection for quick installation. - Transparent photo frame for easy personalization with photos and artwork. - Includes 12 function keys for automated tasks. - H
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