yeah im gonna buy one sometime this year and since i dont have a lot of monee y, and thmoney from the job im getting soon, will be enough for a decent one, but i also want to build a whamola, which will cost a few hundred, so im searching around for some prices, the cheapest ive found is $300-something, so does anyone know where id find good prices, not used, thx
Edit- oh, and ive checked Froogle but it didnt have anything cheaper than what i found
Well if this is going ot be your first tablet and your budget is limited then it may be a good idea to go with a brand other than a wacom.
For example you could go with an AipTek tablet which is considerably cheeper than wacom (99$ refurb and 139$ new for a 9x12)
I just got a Wacom, from Boeing surplus here in Seattle. It was brand new. I guess they purchase them in bulk with thier engineering systems, every time they upgrade plus extras for whatever, and then end up with new ones every time they upgrade.
They also have these Space Balls, no kidding that’s what thier called. I haven’t figured out how to get it working yet but I guess it is used to navigate 3d space. It has a built in z-axis. I guess they use Catia, for design and Maya, for some other stuff.
Drachis wrote:
Well if this is going ot be your first tablet and your budget is limited then it may be a good idea to go with a brand other than a wacom.
For example you could go with an AipTek tablet which is considerably cheeper than wacom (99$ refurb and 139$ new for a 9x12)
hey thx, sounds pretty like a deal, do you have one of these, or have you tried one out, if so, how good does it perform
I had the 6*8 aiptek for about a year and a half and I used it to make a majority of the artwork for my webcomic (epi 1 -73).
It preformed well and most of the issues I had were solved by upgrading to the latest driver version.
The pen is somewhat fat compared to a regular pen since it requires a single AAA battery to run, each battery lasts about 3 or 4 months unless you leave the pen on the tablet for an extended period of time (like overnight). The 68 had a good drawing surface and a trasparent sheet thingy that you could put drawings under if you wanted to trace them.
The pen point wears down a bit over time but there were 3 replacement nibs that came with the 68 and I only needed to change it once over the couse of a year. My AipTek lasted through my rough handeling (and is still being used by a friend of mine AFAIK).
The complaints I can think of are that the buttons on the pen were not as responsive as I’d of liked them to be and that there was no eraser on the pen.
Its definetly was a great starter tablet.
I had the 6*8 aiptek for about a year and a half and I used it to make a majority of the artwork for my webcomic (epi 1 -73).
It preformed well and most of the issues I had were solved by upgrading to the latest driver version.
The pen is somewhat fat compared to a regular pen since it requires a single AAA battery to run, each battery lasts about 3 or 4 months unless you leave the pen on the tablet for an extended period of time (like overnight). The 68 had a good drawing surface and a trasparent sheet thingy that you could put drawings under if you wanted to trace them.
The pen point wears down a bit over time but there were 3 replacement nibs that came with the 68 and I only needed to change it once over the couse of a year. My AipTek lasted through my rough handeling (and is still being used by a friend of mine AFAIK).
The complaints I can think of are that the buttons on the pen were not as responsive as I’d of liked them to be and that there was no eraser on the pen.Its definetly was a great starter tablet.
aight, that sounds pretty convincing, but, is there any way i can go to a store and pick up a better pen, i mean, does it have that kind of capability to hook up a different type, so i wouldnt have to deal with a fat, mildy unresponsive one?
No to the best of my knowledge,
the pen is only about as fat as a marker or a AA battery and the pen buttons weren’t raised to high above the pen body so the difference when it was pressed was rather slight.
But unless the images on the AipTek Site lie, then the pen for the 912 is slightly different in design than that of the 68 so I may be completly off about how it would function
I generally wouldn’t waste my time on a wacom, dispite the fact i own one (only ones i know where the pen doesn’t require a battery)… But with wacom it seems your paying for 10000000million gazillion pressure sensitivity… while your program only really uses about 9.
I personally like going for the smaller ones too. which are nice and cheap. The bigger one’s IMO are too big, waste desktop space and are very uncomfortable to use. And when plastic on plastic doesn’t really feel right, on the larger ones i think it makes it harder to actually draw. I like to just move my hands/ wrist, not my intire arm.
I can’t remember the name of the first one i bought, it wasnt wacom but it is just as good as this current one, and probabily half the price. Only pitful was that it required a AAA battery. Though that did seem to last forever.
any my wacom cost about 40 GPB, which will be about the same in USD ($40)
Don’t worry about buying a used one. I have a used one, and it works great. I think a lot of people buy them for casual photo editing, and when they discover that they don’t need them for that, they sell them again, still hardly used.
It’s a wacom, too. He didn’t have the disc anymore, but I found the drivers on the internet very easily.
alright, thx yall, im trying for one of these as soon as possible