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17 LCD Tablet Monitor with pen/ Bundled Sw Uses Whiteboard Graphics

Manufacturer : ADESSO
In Stock : 21

List Price:	$1,264.99
Price:	$850.99
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Features

Product #: CYBERTABLETM17
Manufacturer: Adesso Inc.
Manufacturer Item #: CyberTabletM17
UPC: 783750002516

Product Description

Another revolution in digital design from Adesso! The CyberTablet M17 turns a simple monitor into a graphics tablet for pen-based applications of almost limitless diversity. A highly effective "Paperless Office" tool, this device enables the user to annotate hand-written or digitally signed emails, compose images, and even supports handwriting recognition. User-friendly and easy-to-use. Those in the medical/EMR, architectural, graphics arts, film and video, educational or in fact almost any of today's industry sectors find the CyberTablet M17 to be a 'cannot-do-without' addition to their digital arsenals.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating of 3.50 out of 6 reviews

Rating :
OK - Meander, Oct 30, 2009

If I have a choice I would like to give 3 1/2 stars.

I bought this product and use it for almost 2 years, it still working great. It's like a cheap version of Cintiq. The output looks great and it serves me faithfully.

I faced a lot of problems when I tried to install it at first. I'm not gonna mention it again cause other review had already mention. But once you can solved all the problem, I think it works fine. The manual is not helpful and the driver is terriblely design. I tried to use it on me new PC preinstalled with Window Vista, the driver seems odd and can't work well with my Wacom intous 2. I have to reinstall the driver everytime after I used my intous2. After I changed back to window XP the problem solved. I'm very disappointed to the customer service. I wrote email to them and didn't even get a reply.

If you think you can solved all the problems you may face with this moniter, you may go for it. Otherwise I think wacom has a much better customer service than Adesso provided (that's why Adesso is cheaper).

Rating :
good attempt mediocre product - S. Lane, Jun 19, 2009

Strengths:
Nice 17" monitor and drawing pad. Works well with Corel Draw. I also use it with Myscript notes and Phatware's Penoffice. Especially nice is the video passthrough. The cybertablet works best as a drawing tablet lying flat, but this is not the best position for using it as a monitor. The passthrough allows a separate standing monitor.

Weaknesses:
Absolutely no technical support. In order to use the drawing pad feature the monitor must be set as the primary monitor. Otherwise the pen tracks on whatever other monitor is set as primary and not on the cybertablet. This defeats the purpose of using the cybertablet as a monitor.

Comments:
According to the supplied paper manual it is possible to reassign the pen buttons and the directions are on the emanual on disk. Similarly, if it is necessary to calibrate the pen-monitor tracking, these directions are also available in the emanual. Unfortunately, the emanual is the same manual as the paper manual and no directions are supplied. Also, there are no directions available on the help links at the Adesso web site. Attempts to communicate with adesso help have also proven impossible. Their live chat, 800 help number, help desk and support emails are either disconnected, unavailable links, or unresponsive. My cybertablet is virtually unusable for drawing because the pen tracking is approximately ¼ inch off in parts of the screen and I can't find out how to recalibrate the pen and monitor so that it will track properly.

Rating :
Adesso 17 LCD Tablet - G. E. QUIRINI, Jan 08, 2009

I returned this product as it was not compatible with my Intel iMac (2.1GHz) running Mac OS 10.5.5 - the current OS. The tablet software would not install on my computer. The device itself will connect, but it has only VGA output - so the screen resolution is not great. Kind of defeats the whole 17 in monitor idea.

Rating :
Good Stuff - Martha Parra, Sep 04, 2008

Not a Wacom, but it is worth it, work just fine, I only wish i would have more information on the web about calibrating the monitor and advance software to control it and the pen also. Maybe more support from the developers or a fac section or blog or something on the web site.
I still have not calibrate correctly wih the mini software it comes with it, but in fact I get use to work with the pen not well aligned to the mouse pointer. Other thing when you draw, using pens pressure produce lines with a lot of arefacts, neither straight or smooth, so you have to work with a lot of zoom to get it properly well. It is a good cheaper option.

Rating :
Pretty suave - William Leu, Apr 05, 2008

It's pretty much as advertised; it's pretty large, you draw on it, and the display is crisp. There are a few small problems though:

There's a small gap between the glass you write on and the actual screen - somewhere between a third to a fourth of an inch - so when doing really precise actions you might be a little off where you intended to place the cursor if you're viewing the screen at an angle. I'm sure that's a problem with all tablet monitors so that can't be helped, just FYI.

I had a case where I was messing with a non-zoomable canvas and decided to lower the resoloution really low to compensate - which makes the cursor offset quite a bit (like half the cursor's size - which is alot for me at 800x600) off. Not a big problem unless you're trying to get the pen to a very specific spot.

The tablet monitor input on my Vista machine seems to only want to work as my main monitor. Sure, I can make it an extension monitor and it displays fine, but if I try to write on it, it acts as if I was drawing on the main/other screen. So if it's not set as my main monitor, every time I want to use it I have to switch my display settings.

The picture is sharp and the input at high resoloutions is very accurate and responsive. The stand/prop is sturdy but as a tablet monitor with the assumption that you're always looking down to write, there's no way to prop it up like a regular monitor on a flat surface using the built-in stand. Mine didn't come with any dead pixels, so that's always a plus too.

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