In this video I'll talk about Wacom imitations. Superficially, they look just
like a Wacom tablet
which you can see here. It's 21.5 inches wide
It's an IPS monitor that you can draw on with a
stylus and like you see here. It's pressure sensitive
This particular pen does not use batteries its rechargeable
so you plug it in with this USB charger
The monitor has an adjustable stand so you can tilt it forwards and backwards
If you feel like working flat or you like working an angle, you have all those
options
It comes with an instruction manual and installation CD
I don't have a disk drive on my computer
so I had to go on their website and find the driver. I couldn't find the
driver for this particular
model here, but there was a driver for the 19 inch model
and I installed that which seemed to work.
I did have some issues opening the tablet setting control panel through the
control panel in Windows. It wouldn't open and it would crash
but if I opened it from the icon in the notification area, than it would open
and I could
switch it to correct monitor. Because when I was using this tablet at first
it was moving the cursor on my big screen here so it wasn't even using
the correct screen
When I got the screen to switch, now the cursor
is very far away from my pen. So this is a calibration issue. Now the problem is
if the pen is that far off to begin with,
and the calibration wants me to click up here on this top icon,
which is how you calibrate, you click 1, 2, 3, 4 and so on
If my cursor is way over here, I can't click on that first icon
so I can't calibrate this thing
If I take my mouse and click on a color
and draw, you'll see that my pen is clearly over here
but the brush mark is over there
That's another thing, I don't know if you can hear this... The pen is making this horrible
screeching sound
The surface on this thing is kind of like an iPad. It's this weird
kind of sticky, smooth glass. -- Which you think would be fine,
because it would be a nice slick surface
but it's not. It makes a horrible squeaking noise on the stylus
and it feels weird because your pen occasionally gets stuck
it feels like there's junk on the screen and I know that there's not
because I just got this thing
a few days ago and I just peeled the plastic off the screen. I haven't
smudged my hand on the screen or anything. This is how it comes. So I don't know maybe
there's something you need to do to condition it. It didn't say in the instructions
So to be perfectly honest, this tablet is something that the company sent me to
review
and I was going to create a review for them if I liked it, but with all these problems
I can't recommend it to anybody
If you ask me whether you should spend six or seven hundred dollars on this thing
instead of investing in a Wacom tablet, I will say no because
I'm a pretty tech-savvy guy and I am so frustrated with this thing. I cannot get
it to work
I haven't gotten any in emails back and I'm sure they will email me back and say
it's probably a driver issue or something, but you know what,
if this wasn't sent to me for free and I had spent my hard-earned money
ordering this thing online and I was having all these problems,
I would be really irritated. So I'm going to save you that trouble
If this disc does have the drivers on it, it doesn't do me any good because I don't have a disk drive
and a lot of modern computers don't believe it or not. If you can't get the correct
driver from their website,
they shouldn't be selling this thing. So I really hate to make a
bad review about this
I'm definitely not going to accept any compensation from the company and send this
thing right back
This is not a biased review and honestly when I opened this thing up, I thought wow this is
really cool
The screen seems really nice and it would make a nice monitor if I needed
another monitor, but I don't because I have
plenty. I couldn't get the pen to work and I couldn't get the the tablet service to
work and I couldn't get the drivers to work
And you shouldn't have to deal with that. When I got my Wacom Cintiq 24HD,
I plugged it in and it worked. There were plenty of drivers on
Wacom's website
Now whoever else makes these tablets like Monoprice, Huion, etc... I don't care who it is, if it's not
made by Wacom, you're basically just getting an imitation of a Wacom
and in some cases for some people they might be able to get it to work and that's
fine. If you wanna save a little bit of money
that's, but what you have to realize is that Wacom isn't just being
greedy and saying okay
this thing really only costs us two hundred dollars, but we're going to sell
it for
two thousand dollars and just pocket all that money. That's not the case
Wacom is putting a lot of time and effort into making the Cintiq a quality device
and these other companies that are basically trying to copy that are just
cutting corners and going, alright let's just make this thing
as absolutely cheap as possible. I'm not going to recommend something that doesn't
work
so I'm sending this thing back. If you found this information helpful,
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