Wacom Bamboo Touch Tablet
- Multi-Touch input for intuitive control
- Use a single finger for navigation and selection or multiple fingers for gestures
- Four user-defined ExpressKeys for shortcuts or clicks
- Simple gestures make it easy to scroll, zoom, rotate and go backward or forward
- Interactive tutorial helps you make the most of your Bamboo
Product Description
Bamboo Touch lets you add the power of Multi-Touch to virtually any computer, so you can navigate, scroll, and work with simple gestures, only with more space to maneuver than on a standard mobile device or laptop trackpad. Using hand gestures and finger taps, Bamboo Touch makes it easy to move around your desktop, scroll through documents, navigate the web, zoom in and out of photos, and rotate images. PC and Mac compatibleAmazon.com Product Description
With the Bamboo Touch, you can say goodbye to the frustrations of using an unresponsive laptop trackpad. Using an innovative tablet and Wacom's "Multi-Touch" technology, the Bamboo Touch allows you to navigate your computer using simple gestures and finger taps. Bamboo Touch makes it easy to move around your Windows desktop, scroll through documents, navigate the web, zoom in and out of photos, and rotate images -- all with the touch of a finger.
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Sleek, Stylish, and Easy to Use
Measuring only 8.2 by 5.4 inches, the Bamboo Touch is compact enough to store comfortably in a laptop case. It features a large and responsive active area, and there's more room to navigate than you'd experience with a mobile device or a traditional laptop trackpad. It's also reversible, so you can use it comfortably whether you're right- or left-handed.
The Bamboo Touch is simple to set up, using a plug-and-play mechanism. Simply plug the tablet into your computer via a USB port, install the provided drivers, and you're ready to go. You'll be doodling, writing, and painting in minutes.
Navigate Easily with Multi-Touch Technology
With the Bamboo Touch, Wacom has implemented a new technology called Multi-Touch. Typically, tablets require you to use the stylus for navigation, but Multi-Touch provides a comfortable hands-on alternative. It allows you to quickly navigate through your computer with a single finger.
You can also scroll, zoom, and rotate your screen with simple hand gestures. It's intuitively-designed and easy to use -- even if you're new to the touch experience. The tablet also has four built-in Express Keys, which users can map to whatever shortcuts or commands they choose.
Because the Bamboo Touch is potentially a replacement for your mouse, Wacom has included an interactive tutorial that teaches you the gestures and helps you adjust to using the tablet.
Bamboo Touch is compatible with Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP (Service Pack 2) and Mac OS X (10.4.8 or higher.) It requires a powered USB drive, a colored screen, and a CD/DVD drive.
What's in the Box Bamboo Touch tablet, Quick Start guide, installation CD (includes driver software, interactive tutorial and user's manual).
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Posted: February 2nd, 2010 under Nashville-Shopping.
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Comments
Comment from Daniel R. Gary
Time February 2, 2010 at 11:49 pm
Be very careful of buying this. If you want just a touch pad, then I suppose you’re okay. But if you want a small graphics tablet, get the Bamboo Pen. I got suckered by this thing at newegg and wrote a bad review on it. My review is not there. So be very careful that you are indeed ordering the one that you want before confirming ANY order. I hope that this will save a few people some money.
Rating: 1 / 5
Comment from PDX Shades
Time February 3, 2010 at 2:40 am
The Bamboo Touch does what it is supposed to do. Most of the time. I bought this product thinking it would make a great compliment to a mouse, if not a mouse replacement. High hopes.
PROS: Beyond the basics of bringing basic multitouch to the desktop, the programmable buttons are handy, pinch/zoom, and 2-finger scrolling.
CONS: Swiping left and right for back and forward can be tricky — you have to do it just right, pointer sometimes “sticks”, lately it has been reversing controls at random for apparently no reason, still not as precise as a mouse.
I find that the tablet is easiest to use when at a slight angle sitting in my lap. While convenient, the four “ExpressKeys” are a bit awkward. A standard mouse still allows for a greater amount of control and precision for many tasks, but this tablet makes a great compliment to a mouse and keyboard.
Overall, this product is a good investment. Just don’t expect to replace your mouse. There are better devices for that.
Rating: 3 / 5
Comment from Love Wireless
Time February 3, 2010 at 2:50 am
Really saves my mouse hand’s health. All the features are great. 4 button to customize (I mean really personal stuff like macros), large touch area for comfortable movements. The minor improvements that I think are needed are the track resolution and cursor acceleration. Once I used a laser mouse, it’s hard to switch to the kind of movement resolution on touch pads. Another area is the cursor acceleration setting which has huge step differences from low 1 to low 2. Not much granularity to adjust to your personal comfort. Hence, 4 stars. I would pay double the price to get these two features.
There are other great features like gestures, but you can read about those at their web site. BTW, there is a great tutorial that comes with the software. I’ve found that products that have great tutorials are often the kind of products that I really enjoy using.
Overall, it’s worth my money considering the cost of health care for my hand if I get carpal tunnel.
Rating: 4 / 5
Comment from K. Ward
Time February 3, 2010 at 3:56 am
This wacom tablet was exactly what I was looking for to replace the trackball I’ve been using for the last 12 years. Extremely responsive, easy on the hand and wrist. This is what mousing will be in the future.
Rating: 5 / 5
Comment from S. Petrov
Time February 2, 2010 at 10:11 pm
I’ve used a Wacom Intuos 4 Medium for a while now, and I’m very happy with it.
I bought the Bamboo Touch for my secondary computer, assuming (a) it’s useful and (b) I can use a pen with it.
The accuracy of this tablet is below acceptable levels. Even with tweaking on the control panel the input was still jittery. The tablet is ONLY useful with all sensitivity settings at low, and even then it jumps too much on the screen.
The options for left/right click with second touch on the left/right when turned on make it a lucky guess if you’re going to be scrolling or right-clicking.
Near proximity of finger that DOESN’T touch the tablet interferes with the primary input, making it a frustrating experience to use this tablet.
You can’t use a stylus on this tablet, at least not an older Bamboo or Intuos 4 stylus, even though the description of the tablet says 512 levels of pressure sensitivity with pen – it’s a plain lie by Wacom to state that, since pen doesn’t even work with the tablet (more so it’s a touch-pad)
There are no settings for mode of input on the tablet or its software, meaning it always interprets your input as ‘mouse’, making it useless for drawing. There is no setting to make it ‘stylus’ input (1:1 with the display) so that you could at least draw with your finger.
I’m giving it two stars instead of one only because it does recoginze and enable pinching, rotating and scrolling on a Windows machine (when the settings are tweaked)
Rating: 2 / 5