Wacom Bamboo Touch Tablet
by Wacom, Inc
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Manufacturer: Wacom, IncFormat: CD-ROM
Platform: Windows XP
Model: CTT460
Color: Black
Product features:
- 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
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Customer Review: solid hardware without any of the polish
Summary: 3 Stars
As a software developer I use computers extensively and full time. Having used a mac book pro for a while I found the multitouch gestures to be extremely productive, but I am in a Windows dominated world. After finding the Bamboo Touch at engadget I figured I would order one and give it a shot, especially for the price they have it here and the fact that it supports (limited!) multi touch in Windows (unlike the stupid Apple Magic Touch or whatever it's called). Having now used it for several days now, I must say that I am extremely disappointed, and it is not entirely Wacom's fault.
The hardware itself is rock solid, very sleek looking and is more than sensitive enough. The 'rubbery' feel that other reviewers have stated is not that inhibitive to me, maybe because I don't touch the pad with enough force to make it irritating. If this really bothers you I would consider putting an IPad screen protector on the touch sensitive part of bamboo. That would make for a much smoother touch surface and you could do it for cheap.
Unfortunately, things go downhill from here. The buttons are nice and elegant looking but Wacom really missed the whole point here and that is to move away from buttons like you find on the mouse by USING YOUR FINGERS! This is where the three and four finger gestures would have prohibited the need for any buttons. Even if Wacom couldn't decide on what the other gestures should do, at least let me use the three and four finger gestures with custom keystrokes, etc. like they do with the buttons! The buttons are pretty useless if you ask me, because with the large touch pad, you never know where your hand is in relation to the buttons, so you either have to look down to push them (terrible) or guess with your thumb and hope you hit the right button. This single design flaw is enough for me to stop using the tablet and it will be going up on Ebay soon enough.
The additional issues I have with the touch stem from Microsoft's inability to support touch properly in Windows 7. Scrolling and zooming throughout windows is jittery just like your using the mouse wheel. This is a bad combination that takes away from the natural feel of using your fingers. This could easily be fixed! Smooth scrolling is already in Windows! Look at what happens when you drag the scroll bar on the right with your mouse! smoooooooth. I don't think there are any custom touch gestures in Windows, and even if there were, I don't think this tablet will support them.
I do believe Wacom could fix 90% of the issues I have with the tablet through a decent driver update. Unfortunately I don't believe they will. I will be sending them an email with my issues and I hope all of you do the same. The lack of three and four finger touch takes this product down from an everyday usable excellent product, to a mediocre piece of hardware that requires you to take a large hit in productivity to use everyday. Hopefully Wacom is listening (and doing more end user product testing before release next time!!!).
Description of Wacom Bamboo Touch Tablet
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 compatibleWith 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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