Wacom Bamboo Fun | 
| Brand: Wacom
Category: CE
Department: mens
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as of 7/29/2010 09:46 MDT details
New (15) Used (2) Refurbished (1) from $137.99
Rating:  76 reviews
Sales Rank: 290
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 13.3 x 8.8 x 0.2
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: CTH661
Model: CTH661
UPC: 753218993755
EAN: 0753218993755
ASIN: B002OOWC4C
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Powerful tablet helps you create digital art, embellish photos, draw by hand, and more | | • | Intuitive ?Multi-Touch? system lets you navigate your computer using just your fingertips | | • | Included stylus features 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity; provides a pen-on-paper feel | | • | Compatible with Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP (Service Pack 2), and Mac OS X (10.4.8 or higher) | | • | Backed by Wacom?s 1-year manufacturer?s warranty |
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Product Description
Bamboo Fun lets you get hands-on with your creative projects, combining the benefits of Multi-Touch with the comfort and precision of Wacom's ergonomically-designed pen.With Multi-Touch, you can navigate, scroll, and work with simple hand gestures. With the tablet's large touch area, you have more room to navigate than you do with other touch devices like computer trackpads and mobile phones. Need precision? Pick up the pressure-sensitive pen to draw, sketch, edit photos, and add handwritten elements to your creations. The generous size of Bamboo Fun gives you lots of space for creative freedom, making it simple and comfortable to use. Bamboo Fun works with your existing computer: desktop or laptop, PC or Mac. Attach it to a standard USB port and set it comfortably by your keyboard. You can even customize your Bamboo Fun experience by assigning your own shortcuts to the four ExpressKeys. Combines the benefits of pen and Multi-Touch input into one tabletUse a single finger for navigation and multiple fingers for gesturesSimple gestures make it easy to scroll, zoom, rotate, move backward or forwardPressure-sensitive pen tip for natural pen and brush strokesBattery-free, ergonomic pen with two switchesTextured work surface for a pen-on-paper feelQuick access to user-defined shortcuts with four ExpressKeyAttached fabric loop conveniently secures penEasy USB connectionInteractive tutorial helps you helps you learn gestures and make the most of your Bamboo
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 Will never use anything else... July 29, 2010
lepew352
I am in love with this product. It saved me from wrist surgery, so I considered the cost to be more than worth it. I have to admit, this isn't great 'out of the box'. After researching on the internet, I found some suggestions for setting the pad to accommodate the way I work, like using less of the pad when in pen mode, to shorten my pen strokes and lessen my wrist movement. I also reassigned the buttons on the pad and the pen to make things go a little faster while using it. This helped tremendously. That is why I give 4 stars for ease of use. Once reconfigured to my liking, I would give it a 5 star review, but, again, not perfect out of the box. For those who are looking to plug it in and go, I would say you'll probably find it cumbersome to use and 'give up' before you realize it's full potential. I will never use a mouse again. This product is nothing short of amazing. I looked at every model, professional and otherwise, did my homework and still decided to go with this over the more expensive 'professional' models, and I am using it for graphic design and photography, as well as surfing and everyday mouse usage. I would recommend this to anyone and everyone who is on the computer for more than one hour a day. Even if you do not use it for graphics, you will probably save your wrist. Yes, it is one expensive mouse, but in comparison to how much we all spend on computers and electronics, and the fact that this is something that could potentially save your wrist from carpal tunnel...this purchase should be a no-brainer. Spend it and forget about it, you'll wonder why you didn't do it sooner.
 Lower your expectations and you'll be fine July 26, 2010
C. Moore (Hawaii)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've owned a pen-only Wacom tablet before and I think they make good products, but if you get this one you should be aware of several points that I didn't figure out until I started using this one, although, to be fair, there were indications to some problems on the web, I just sort of flaked in my research.
1)The Draw: The drawing and pen functions with the pad are terrific, and unless you're used to high-end tablets, this will probably be fine for you, although the surface is rougher than the older, pen-only tablets and I suspect will wear out nibs fairly quickly. They supply you with three extras.
2)The Touch: While the touch on this, even the "tap to click" works pretty well, I'm not able to use it full time as my interface -- I still use a Logitech track ball. If you're used to one of the glass touchpads on a Macbook or Macbook pro, this will seem a bit sluggish, but if you're used to the trackpad supplied with many netbooks (Like my Dell mini)this thing will be a revelation. Overall it's nice.(There are scrolling issues, see below.) The mouse buttons have a nice, smooth feel, too. Not too clicky, but not so soft you don't know you're pushing them. Mind you, this is after just two days of use. I have no idea about the durability.
3)The Size: This is the larger of the Bamboo Fun tablets. While it should have been blindingly obvious, I suppose, that this was going to be big, it really does take up a lot of room on the desktop. To use it as a touch interface, it's really more than you need. There may people who need the extra space for graphics, but for day-to-day use, the smaller Bamboo Fun or Bamboo Craft touch/pen would have been fine. I'm working on two, 24 inch monitors and this is still way more space than I need. This is about the size of a 13inch laptop, so unless you have room for something that size on your desk all the time, in addition to your keyboard, the smaller Bamboo might be the way to go.
4)The Scroll: The two-fingered scroll function works great until it doesn't. I kept getting a lock up after a couple of swipes in Firefox 3.6, and even my trackball's scrolling would lock for fifteen seconds or so after it locked. This was fixed by turning off the auto-scroll and smooth-scrolling IN FIREFOX. That said, I found that solution in a forum where many people had reported scrolling problems and this fix didn't work for all of them. They also reported similar issues in Photoshop CS2 & CS3 as well. I'm using this with a Mac Pro 2x Xenon processor with 8GB ram, but people with Windows machines reported the problem as well. Wacom didn't seem to address it on their web page other than to respond to users that it, more or less, was the user's fault. I haven't tried it with Photoshop yet, but it seems to work fine in Painter and Art Rage Studio Pro, and I haven't had any scroll problems with the pen, only the touch functions. Your mileage may vary, but I'd be wary of expecting to use this as your only interface until you see a lot of "fixes" reported on the web.
5)The Design: It looks very spiffy, especially if you like the brushed-aluminum look and feel. It's substantial, too - heavy enough to stay in place on the desk. There's a loop for the pen to go into, which is a nice addition my earlier Wacom didn't have. (I use stick-on Velcro to keep the pen attached to that one.)As other's have said, though, the USB cable is permanently attached to the tablet instead of plugging in with a mini-USB plug, as earlier models did. This could become a durability problem if you travel with the tablet a lot, as the connection point isn't very heavily reinforced.
6)In Conclusion: You are more or less in a one-player game. For the price, you can't really get a pen pad with touch from anyone except Wacom, and if this is your first tablet, again, I think you'll probably love it, but do look at the smaller touch/pen tablet first, maybe save yourself some cash, and expect to keep your mouse around for a while, at least, until you iron out any touch navigation problems that you may have with your particular applications.
 Fun and easy to use July 23, 2010
L. Hollingsworth
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got this for my 11-year-old daughter who likes to draw and cartoon and erases alot. The large size is really large! It's not very portable and takes up a lot of space on her desk, but we were afraid that the small would be too cramped...probably would have been fine. She was able to install and set up the whole thing herself. She watched the tutorials and found them adequate. It is installed on an old laptop with windows XP and we don't have any fancy graphics software...just what came with the tablet and some freeware. As other people said, the touch function isn't great and I find her using her mouse to move around even though you COULD do it on the touch pad. The pen seems very sensitive. The eraser is a must have feature. It takes a while to get used to the drawing scale (ie in relation to the computer screen), but for the most part it was plug and go. All in all, fun, easy, no problems yet...I'd say best value for my money that I've had in a long time.
Rtist July 19, 2010
Lillian Jackson
As a graphic designer / illustrator I've used a Wacom tablet for years and I'm very happy with the product. After invasive hand surgery I've been forced
to consider options other than a mouse or track ball for selecting and manipulating items on monitor, so when I saw your product online it looked like the
perfect alternative to point and click. I enjoy using gestures on my Bamboo tablet and find it to be more ergonomically efficient than using a mouse.
My only regret is that at least one of the commands will only work with Adobe CS4 and later. Also, it would be great if there was a hybrid tablet for professional illustrator / designers with a touch feature.
Stands up to its reputation July 8, 2010
Hoosier66
Now I know why the pros use Wacom for photo editing. It allows me to do things not possible with a mouse or trackball. Count me as happy.
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