|
VisTablet 12-Inch Tablet | 
 enlarge
| Brand: Vistablet
Category: CE
List Price: $129.00
Buy New: $99.99
You Save: $29.01 (22%)
New (9) Used (1)
Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 6146
Color: White/Grey
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 12 x 1 x 10
MPN: Vistablet12
Model: Vistablet12
UPC: 689076231107
EAN: 0689076231107
ASIN: B000Z06VMG
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
| Features:
| • | Most Affordable Tablet On The Market | | • | Thinnest and Most Portable Tablet On The Market | | • | 1024 levels of sensitivity to the pen-pressure | | • | Mac and Windows Compatible | | • | No stand-alone power supply required |
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
VisTablet, The New Standard
VisTablet allows you to explore the internet, draw, paint, write, highlight and do professional or home photo editing. VisTablet also opens up advanced pen features available in all the new Microsoft Office applications. Through electro- magnetic induction, information is exchanged between the pen and the tablet while your movements are translated to your computer screen. With no stand-alone power supply required, the VisTablet is a great choice for portable computers as well as desktop PCs. VisTablet will open up the world of design to you in ways that were previously either too expensive or too limiting. VisTablet is the new standard in graphics tablets. Large surface areaExtremely thin design for portability29 customizable macro fieldsFully compatible with Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter as well as 100's of other major software applications.Works on a PC or MacSpecial features in Windows Vista: pen flick navigation, handwriting recognition, email signing, etc.2 Year Warranty and U.S. backed technical support
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 Pretty solid, but not perfect. December 12, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I own both this tablet and the wacom bamboo, so this is more a comparison than a proper review.
First, I would like to rebut some things said here, which may have been based on an older version of the driver/hardware, or maybe were just wrong. The most recent version of the driver (3.32) supports both relative as well as absolution positioning. It works on multiple displays, (I have two 1600x1200, displays one in landscape mode) and the driver software lets you select just a portion of your display for absolute positioning, and/or a portion of the tablet as the active region.
That said, the configuration options can be a little buggy, but once set the tablet works as configured.
The tablet's X,Y tracking is smooth, fast and precise, I don't notice a difference between it and the bamboo. I did the same thing another reviewer did, and used a straightedge to check and see if the digitizer was straight. I got nice parallel lines. Maybe, he was using something more precise than me, but I am fairly happy with the X,Y behavior. It works fantastically for handwriting recognition, basic drawing, and as a mouse replacement. Others, have said the response time was slower, but I didn't notice any difference, even with a lot of repetitive sketching type stroke action. That said, if you really go at it, both pads tend to lag slightly even on a fairly fast machine. The lag is noticeable after a lot of very rapid hashing when I lift the pen it continues for ~1/10 of a second. This is possibly the application and not the pad.
That said, the Z axis pressure sensitivity isn't to my liking. The pen tip has a very noticeable spring action and deflects a few millimeters into the pen body as pressure is applied. Using the pen control panel it seems pretty linear and reliable. In some of the software I was using, it seemed to misbehave. Sometimes it would draw heavy lines when I wasn't using much pressure after drawing a heavy line, other times I was unable to draw multiple heavy lines one right after the other. I suspect that this is a software problem that may get worked out in the future, but at the moment can be a real downer if your trying to use it to vary line width, or brush application. Also, as someone else stated, the pressure sensitivity works better if the pen is held vertically instead of at a more natural angle. I removed 1 star for the z axis behavior.
To me, the pen actually feels better than the bamboo pen. The battery weight gives it a nice feeling, even if it makes it slightly top heavy. The buttons on the side took me a little while to accept. They seem a little too high on the pen body. Trying to right click on small items on the screen with the pen button (both of them can be configured) was difficult. I either have the hold the pen in a personally unatural way, or move my fingers without moving the pen to click the button. Frankly, the pen feels cheap, but the bamboo pen (especially the eraser) has an even cheaper feel and the buttons aren't any better.
The one place the vistablet is significantly better than the bamboo is the pen holder. Does anyone even care about that? Its like the mouse the bamboo comes with, its OK but who cares. Similarly, I don't use the assignable "buttons" on the pad, because I have a keyboard (which also has assignable buttons I don't use).
Finally, the software it comes with is lousy. The bamboo ships with photoshop elements, corel painter essentials, and Nik Color Efex Pro plug-ins for photoshop. This probably works out to the difference in price by itself, if you were actually going to purchase those titles or just end up using them (or for that matter using them for competitive upgrades). I knock a 1/2 star off for this, but that might not even be fair, as a lot of people either already have software or end up buying an unrelated product.
In the end, 3 1/2 stars. This depends on how much you intend to use the pressure sensitivity, or if it behaves properly with your software package. If the pressure sensitivity gets fixed, with a driver update, or works fine in different software packages, I could give this a 5 star rating. If it behaves poorly across the board, or is fundamentally an instability in the hardware, I would have to rate this pad a 3.
More tips, please November 30, 2008
The tablet works well, has a good size, and is certainly a bargain. The one thing I'd like to see improved is some more tips and guidance about making the transition from mouse to pen and tablet. Documentation, at least insofar as using it with various programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, or Firewords, is pretty much non-existent, and for a person who has been using a mouse for years, flying blind while trying to learn the best way to do things with the pen is not as productive as it might be. If the manufacturer would invest some time in documents that would help buyers become more productive faster, their product would seem even more valuable and indispensable.
 Great Product for the value November 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Have had the product for a few days now. Haven't experienced any issues with it. Works great on my Mac Book and works just as good on Vista. Just an amateur here tinkering with editing home photos. But so far it works great all the features work as i expect them to the work area is huge. I also purchased a Wacom Bambo small and this product gives it a run for it's money as well. So if you don't want to spend a fortune trying something new out give this product a try you'll be happy you did.
 Tracing Slowly - OK / Sketching - Terrible. November 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Vistatablet LLC has been spamming the heck out of forums, retail sites, and artist communities for the last year or so and it's obvious they're targeting neophyte dreamer who would otherwise buy a Bamboo and indeed they bill themselves as competition to Wacom's natural monopoly on high-end digitizers so they have some real big shoes to fill with very little time left before digitizers go the way of the trackball, magnetic tape, and so on. One thing that should be mentioned and this company ought to be more up front about is that they don't actually manufacture these digitizers, it's just a re-branded Aiptek Slimtablet 600U. That little detail isn't nearly so important as the stark contrast between the Vistablet(600U) and Wacom's hardware and drivers.
Pressure sensitivity is a simple off the shelf solution, where Wacom excels is in relative position resolution, eliminating lag caused by using an active power transmit/receive pen instead of an electromagnetic inductive strategy, and in the drivers ability to provide as much device customization latitude as is possible without generating a hardware abstraction layer conflict with the OS kernel. This device will no-doubt allow for default use of a digitizer in apps like Photoshop but the specs and drivers make it far less functional than even the "for-fun" Wacom Bamboo. Having bought one of these on e-bay for just under $50, the Vistablet that is really a Aiptek Slimtablet will install on an XP machine; but if you plan on drawing free hand instead of tracing pictures at a slow pace then you will notice a significant amount of jitter, curve lag, inconsistent pressure sensitivity, no angle/tilt recognition, and cursor deviation from tip going as high as a quarter inch.
I caution anyone against buying this digitizer you are planning on doing any sort of sketching, photo-editing, digital painting, NURBS modeling, just enjoy yourself with a bit of doodling, or even want to try out an alternative interface to overcome a handicap/ergonomic issue. Short of slowly tracing pictures and launching a handful of assigned functions, the VisTablet in any could give you a really bad impression of how powerful better digitizers are as tools for the digital artist.
Considering that you're thinking of forking over $101.75 (as of this writing), why not save up a little while longer so your investment is rewarded with a stable manufacturer of performance oriented digitizers like Wacom or just get a refurbished Slate Tablet PC that's Wacom Penabled Tablet PC like the HP TC1100 or Motion Computing which can be found for $250-500.
 Disatisfied October 20, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Too much presure was need to get any kind of response from tablet.
Image on screen was jumpy when pen didn't leave tablet.
|
|
|
Disclaimer: This is an Amazon storefront - the products referenced on this site are manufactured and sold by other parties and sold through Amazon.com We make no representations regarding either the products or any information vendors offer about their products. Any questions, complaints, or claims regarding the products must be directed to the appropriate manufacturer or vendor, or to Amazon.com. |
| |
