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It’s no Wacom, April 5, 2008

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David Bokser (Los Angeles, CA) – See all my reviews

  

I purchased this because I needed a replacement for my Wacom tablet, which was starting to jump around randomly. Wacoms are way too expensive, so I figured I’d check out another brand. This tablet doesn’t come close to a Wacom. If you’re doing any kind of graphics work, then just put the money down on a Wacom. The movement and lines come out a lot cleaner, and the pressure sensitivity feels right. I did a side by side comparison, drawing a sphere or even squiggly lines and the Tooya’s lines had a lot more jitter than the Wacom’s. You have to really push down on the Tooya as well to reach the higher pressure levels, which just feels unnatural.

Even the pen stinks in comparison. First off, it requires a battery, so prepare to be changing that thing out. I returned the tablet before the battery ran out (had it for a day) so I don’t know how long it will last. The pen feels terrible too. It’s too thick, it feels like you’re drawing with a highlighter, and there is no ergonomic grip. Overall, the whole package seems very cheap. The tablet itself feels thin and flimsy as well.

I wanted to like this tablet, and I was hoping it would be a good replacement for a Wacom. I’m kind of sick of Wacom having a monopoly on the graphics tablets industry and driving prices way up. This, however, is not that replacement. Even for the money, spend the extra 30 bucks and get a bamboo.

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wide tablet, very sensitive, January 4, 2008

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Nuria Sener (venezuela) – See all my reviews

  

i had a Genius MousePen 8X6 wich worked just fine, and the size is more practical for general drawing. Tough the big size of tooya’s tablet may come handy for special cases, when you have to draw and change from several tools, you’ll need to strech your hand all over the tablet or have a usb mouse near for easy tool navegation. The advantage of tooya is the wide range of pressure sensibility, which works wonderfully with brushes and artistic tools like photoshop & others. Otherwise when you’re drawing vectors, there’s no effect of pressure on the line’s width, at least there’s no choice for using this feature in illustrator cs2 vectors (i dont know if it works in coreldraw) indeed, if you don’t soften the pressure settings, when drawing vector lines, they could break at any weak point, so experiment with pressure settings. If You get to draw your inky sketches for any vector output, do it in a painted (rasterized) mode in Photoshop or similar, then vectorize it if you need to keep the inky feel. hope this helps

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Great Chinese handwritting tool for Intel Mac…, February 21, 2008

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Frank Su – See all my reviews

  

I purchased this mainly to replace the old PenPower tablet that I had used before for Chinese handwriting on my PPC Mac, which I found out later that the software wouldn’t work on Intel Mac. Fortunately, this table, along with the updated Chinese handwriting software that can be downloaded from PenPower’s website, has brought Chinese handwriting recognition to Intel Mac and it works very well. The catch here is that the new Chinese handwriting software only works with this tablet. Sure hope that Apple can license this software (which is no bigger than 30MB) and make it part of OS X… Having said all this, this is a great (and only) Chinese handwriting tool if you have an Intel Mac and want to input Chinese without having to learned various keyboard input methods.

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