Wacom Intuos5 Medium (PTH-650)

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89% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Beautifully textured drawing surface. 2,048 levels of pressure sensitivity. New, programmable capacitive buttons. Available in three sizes. Robust software bundle. Takes special advantage of Photoshop, Lightroom, and Maya.

Pen grip attracts dust and lint. Duo button is still too easy to press. Multitouch gesture accuracy trails that of a good laptop trackpad. Wireless kit is optional.

Wireless Kit and Conclusions Wacom also sent us a Wireless Accessory Kit ($39) to try out. Even if you buy one with the tablet, you still need to set the tablet up over USB first, because the battery isn't charged. Installing the battery underneath the...

Excellent sensitivity, touch functionality makes a mouse functionally unnecessary, customizable hotkeys, unobtrusive software

Multi-touch gestures aren't all that sensitive, tablet itself is huge (but this may be for ergonomic reasons), wireless kit not included, expensive

Tablet is quite large despite being referred to as "Medium", having nearly the same diagonal as a standard 15.6" laptop. The device is quite easy to customize although the default settings are quite asinine. I do not understand how they expect anyone...

Despite Wacom touting their products as "Made for Windows 8", the support is laughable at best. To turn some features off, such as the ripple that occurs when left clicking with the pen, their forum reps suggest you perform a registry hack. The IME Pad...

Coming from a bamboo, I feel I could do a ton more with this. I'm currently using a Samsung 29" inch 2560x1440 display and this fits the screen perfectly. Comes with a nice bunch of free software to use with this tablet and just using this with Adobe...

learning curve could be of a problem to some people but if you already have a lot of experience using a mouse to edit photos or render artwork, on photoshop or illustrator, for example, you'll quickly see how fast you can finish your work with these...

Still works as well as the Wacom tablet of 10 years ago. There is no good substitute--unfortunately.

The sensitive area is less than 9 x 5.5, so why has the tablet grown to 15 x 10? How am I supposed to put this monster on my desk? I have to rest the thing on my knees. The old original Wacom was a neat, trim accessory. Function buttons are all black,...

-Fully customizable button assignments -Excellent multiscreen support: If configured tablet to use on one screen you can switch to next screen with "display toggle" button, it's pre-configured on one of tablet's buttons. By default, the tablet's active...

-Wireless kits sold separately -The area outside white frame angles is not functional Bundled TRIAL/FREEwares: -Corel® Painter™ 12 (90-day trial) -Autodesk® SketchBook® Express (free)

Bought this for my son who is in Art school. He's been very happy with it. My son is using this both with his MacBook Pro laptop and Desktop PC.

None.

nice sensitivity, comfortable, large, stable software, highly customizable... works well overall

I can't think of any cons...

It works nicely with WinXp...with I5 quadcore and 1600mhz ram. Works with older applications in touch mode. Customizable settings.

The USB connector is week and seems likely to fail at some point. The battery life for the battery for wireless connection is limited. I work up to 16 hours per day when it's crunch time. I cannot find extra batteries, except to buy the wireless...

Nice tablet overall and very good quality. Get the Wireless/USB kit. The only thing better is the Cintiq 12WX ($999 or less) or much more expensive Cintiq 22/ 24 HD inch.

Nibs wear, pressure sensitivity could be better. Downloading Bundle Software is okay. Could be updated to current products/ programs being sold. They are watered down types, need to purchase regular mfgr program for getting best features.