|Wacom Bamboo Touch Tablet
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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 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). | |||||||||||||||
Product Details
- 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 Reviews
 Perfect touch tablet |
| Review Date: November 8, 2009 |
| Reviewer: K. Ward, WI, USA |
| 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. |
| Nice tablet mouse |
| Review Date: February 22, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Gadgetlover, Atlanta, GA |
| I received the Bamboo Touch Tablet as a Christmas present from my Mac-loving son. I have PCs. I believe that part of the reason my son gave me this tablet was so that I could experience the joys of the multi-touch input. I have indeed experienced it and love it. The tablet is extremely easy to use. It is very responsive to my touch. My only complaint with this tablet is that in order to use the drag function I find that most of the time I need to depress the fourth button with my left hand while dragging with my right index finger. (In the tutorial it demonstrates being able to use just the index finger. When I practiced in the tutorial, that worked; however,in actual use I am not successful when doing that.) I love the slim design of the Tablet and find it a more portable option to carry with me when I travel with my laptop than having to carry a mouse since the tablet is flat and can easily slip into my bag with my computer.
I am very pleased with this tablet and am very happy that my son chose to give it to me. |
| Reviewing the Bamboo TOUCH |
| Review Date: October 1, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Michael Long, Denver, Co USA |
| I own both a new 17" MacBook Pro and a 24" iMac, and with the advent of gesture support on the MBP trackpad I've often wished for a multitouch trackpad I could use on the iMac.
And with the Wacom Bamboo Touch, my wish has been granted... mostly. The Bamboo Touch is a multitouch trackpad, not a pen input device as is most of Wacom's line. If you want pen capabilities, order the Bamboo Pen and Touch instead, but be advised that the pen-enabled version is much larger than the Touch by about 2" in both directions. That may not sound like much, but it takes up significantly more desktop real estate than does the Touch. The Bamboo Touch supports all of the standard single finger and two finger gestures: clicking, right clicking, dragging, scrolling, zooming, and rotating. It does not, however, understand three and four finger gestures and swipes. This lack is compensated somewhat by the addition of four custom buttons on the side of the trackpad. The additional buttons are helpful, but inexplicably covered with a glossy black plastic that attracts fingerprints like mad. Build quality is very good, though I miss the silky smooth feel of the glass trackpad on the MBP. Tracking is fast and accurate, though the surface is somewhat sensitive. As such, one must place it off to the side since (unlike the MBP) there's no setting that tells the device to ignore "accidental" inputs. One other nit is that if you're dragging something and pause, the operation seems to time out, often dropping the item where it wasn't wanted. This is a pain when attempting to drag items into spring-loaded, automatically opening folders. Also on the negative side, the device has a very long USB cord that just piles up on your desk if you have a Mac or other keyboard with built-in USB. Better to have shipped with a foot long "tail" for desktop use, and added a USB extender should one need to reach further. All in all, the device is recommended and hopefully many of my small nits will be corrected in a future software driver update. [EDIT] After using the pad (and talking to Wacom support) it turns out that the "timeout" issue mentioned above isn't a timeout issue at all, but stems from two problems: First, the "active" area of the trackpad is smaller than you think, delineated by the light gray lines in the photo. Thus it's fairly easy to drag something past the line and lose control of it. Second, unlike the trackpad on the MBP you can NOT pick up your fingers and reposition them during a drag lock. Pick them up and you're done. Period. This means when dragging you have to be careful where you start from on the pad, otherwise you can easily run out of room. |
| Bamboo Touch Works Well for Me |
| Review Date: October 13, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Timothy W. Graf, Dublin, California United States |
| I have a MacBook Air at home and I use a PC at work. I've become very accustomed to using a touch pad with multi-touch and gestures at home and decide to get the Bamboo Touch for work. I also have a Bamboo Craft touch pad and pen tablet that I use for drawing with my MacBook Air so I was somewhat familiar with Wacom products.
The Bamboo touch works just as advertised. I am quite happy with it at work on my Windows XP workstation. My only criticism is that it's not quite as smooth as the touch pad on my MacBook Air. Scrolling seems a little more "choppy" with Windows and the Bamboo Touch. It's not bad however and having the two finger swipe gesture is well worth the purchase of the Bamboo Touch. Also the pinching and rotate gestures work well in application that will use them but just not quite as smoothly as they do on my Mac. Also for some reason it tends to inadvertently select text on occasion when I touch the pad to move the mouse pointer. This could be just me getting used to using the touch pad but this almost never happens on the Mac for me. All in all, with those minor caveats, if you are looking for a decent touch pad on a desktop system with mutli-touch and gestures this will do the trick. It works quite well, just not as smooth as the touch pad on a MacBook. [Edit] OK I would increase my rating to 5 stars if I could. Modifying the "Double-Tap Time" settings has pretty much eliminated the inadvertent text selecting I mentioned. Also adjusting the "Scrolling Speed" setting has made window and browser scrolling seem much more smooth and responsive. The Bamboo Touch works excellent. |
| Solid Touch Device |
| Review Date: February 5, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Bryan Baca, |
| Having gotten very used to multi touch on the iPhone, I was eager to experience a touch interface to Windows 7. This is a great device and timely replacement for the mouse.
Pros: - Easy to install - Natural and easy-to-learn gestures - Elegant design - Responsive Cons: - Flick scrolling is jerky. This may have as much to do with the Bamboo as the application. - Doesn't seem as ergonomically correct as a mouse. The wrist wrests flat as the hand is tilted up to make gestures. I'm sure this is due, in part, to the fact that my hand/wrist have been working with a mouse for 15 years. |
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