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Adesso CYBER TABLET 12X9" GRAPHICS/DRAWING TABLET WITH 2-BTN USB PEN AND MOUSE ( CYBERTABLET 12000 )

Manufacturer : Adesso
In Stock : 30

List Price:	$150.99
Price:	$126.99
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Features

Includes 2-button Pen and USB Scrolling Mouse
512 levels of pressure for high accuracy.
Supports up to 3048 lines per inch.
Includes Photo Impact XL, FreeNotes, Power Presenter RE II, and PenSoft Pro!
USB powered (cable included) and 2AA and 1AAA battery.

Product Description

Ergonomically designed wireless tablet with scroll mouse for easy drawing, handwriting, sketching, coloring and picture editing. With its 12" x 9" workspace, the CyberTablet 12000 offers you the freedom of movement and fine-tuned sensitivity to accomplish the most sophisticated computer-aided designing tasks. A powerful, yet easy-to-use combination of a pressure-sensitive pen, tablet and software lets you naturally draw and write freehand graphics and text as comfortably as you would on real paper.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating of 3.50 out of 31 reviews

Rating :
So-So. - A. R. Thomasson, Jun 04, 2008

It's a good tablet, very cheap for its size, but after I installed it (using the drivers on the CD it came with) it would force my computer to abruptly restart once or twice in a row every few hours, causing me to lose a lot of data daily.

Installing the drivers from the site worked somewhat and not the restarts only happen once, maybe twice a day after a long period of use. Otherwise, it's great.

Rating :
Eh. - b. Touch, May 31, 2008

I own (owned?) this tablet when it was still the Aiptek HyperPen 12000u (all Addesso appears to have done is pasted their logo over Aiptek's), which I upgraded to after owning the 6" x 8" model for some time. The tablet was decent for photo retouching and other tasks that benefit from using a tablet but don't require quite so much precision.

Drawing was a different story: the tablet's resolution and pressure sensitivity levels were pitiful when it came to actually drawing. Anything lines or curves I drew would have obvious stair-step patterns, and more often than not there was a delay between when I drew a mark and when it appeared onscreen.

I borrowed a friend's Graphire3 one weekend, and the experience was revolutionary. Mind you, this was a 4" x 5" Graphire - half the size of the Aiptek - but I must say that the little guy put the Aiptek to shame. No stairsteps, no delay unless I was working on a tapestry-sized piece, and much better drivers. Not only that, the Graphire pen requires no (as in "en-oh") battery power, while the Aiptek/Adesso tablets require a AAA battery for the pen (which, it seemed, went dead every month). I practically ran to CompUSA to buy a Graphire4 for myself, and I love it like a play cousin.

If you just need something to handwrite annotations, an Aiptek or Adesso is fine, but do yourself a favor and get a smaller one. You don't need a 9" x 12" tablet to circle typos on Microsoft Word documents. On the other hand, if you're looking for a pen tablet to do art or animation with, there's a reason Wacom has so much of the market share. Get yourself a Bamboo Fun or an Intuos3...or a USB Graphire4 (that's USB, not Bluetooth) from an online reseller (they've been discontinued).

Rating :
Great Product for a Budding Artist - Kimberly K. Lind, Mar 17, 2008

The tablet arrived in good order and is working fine. Thank you for a good product, fair price and quick shipping.

Rating :
Kool Beans - Robert D. Martin, Jan 07, 2008

The first one didn't function. As soon as the first one was in the postal system the second one was shipped. It works flawlessly. I use it to create designs and remvove unwanted background and to repair designs before digitizing the design.

Rating :
A good tablet for a cheap price. - J. Decelles, Dec 26, 2007

I own the Aiptek Hyperpen 12000u graphics tablet, which is the exact same item as the Adesso CyberTablet 12000, only it is sold under the Aiptek brand.

I went to school for Graphic Design and in 2006 I graduated with my bachelors in that field. I currently work full time for at an in-house graphic design department for one of the world's largest printing and marketing companies.

I bought this tablet in about 2003 because I felt that it would help with my projects in school. I originally was looking at the Wacom Intuos 6x8 graphics tablet, but the price tag for that particular item was far outside what I could afford while paying for school, my car and other bills. I had used the less expensive Wacom Graphire 4x5" tablet but I was not impressed. The build quality was good, but it was too small to really do any kind of detailed work with it.

A friend of mine who does a lot of artwork on the computer turned me onto the Aiptek 12000u (which is again, the same unit as the CyberTablet 12000) which he paid about double the price here for at a local brick and mortar hardware chain. A 12x9 tablet for about half the cost of the Wacom Intuos I was looking at caught my attention so I looked online, found the tablet on Amazon and did what any college kid would do, asked my parents to buy it for me.

The build quality of the Hyperpen is good. It is a solid unit over-all. I have dropped mine dozens of times and it still works flawlessly. The pen feels a little flimsy, but no worse than say a bic pen. Mine lasted for about 4 years before I had to recently replace it (replacements available on the Aiptek website). A replacement pen cost me only $10 plus shipping, which is a great value considering a replacement pen for a Wacom tablet costs in the $60 range. The pen requires a AAA battery and because of this is a little heavier than a Wacom pen, but almost all of the weight is the battery itself, and I am one of those people who prefer a pen with a little heft to it. For me the vast savings over the cost of a Wacom tablet outweigh having to use a slightly heavier pen.

The mouse of my tablet was basically useless. But I didn't buy a tablet to use the mouse. I have a very decent optical mouse that fulfills all of my mousing needs, as I am sure most people who are considering this tablet do.

I use this tablet nearly every day at work and it performs flawlessly. I use it mainly with Adobe Photoshop CS2 and 3, and Adobe Illustrator CS2 and for those programs it is worth its weight in gold. It has full pressure sensitivity for CS2 and 3 (contrary to what some reviews say) and works well with Illustrator. You have to install the drivers (the drivers on the Aiptek website, which I believe are v3.15 will work well with this tablet) in order for Photoshop to detect the pen pressure sensitivity, but that is no big deal.

Also this tablet has only 512 levels of pressure sensitivity as compared to 1024 levels on the Wacom Intuos line. But I have used both tablets (12000u and Intuos 6x8") at this point, and there is no real world difference between the two. As in, you won't really notice any difference in pen pressure sensitivity.
Also this tablet is very accurate. I have it set up with "Absolute" positioning so that where I place the pen on the tablet directly relates to where the cursor appears on the screen, and with my 20" monitor using this tablet is very intuitive. I got used to it in a week, which is something I cannot say of smaller tablets.

Aside from the crappy mouse this tablet comes with, I only have 2 other negative things to say: The programmable function keys are practically useless. You cannot program them to Photoshop keyboard shortcuts or macros. I have only been able to use them to open programs. The other thing is that this tablet doesn't detect pen tilt, which is something the newer Wacom tablets do. It's not a major feature, but it is a nice one.

However the extra $300+ dollars that I have in my pocket make me feel better about not having tilt sensing on my tablet.

I would as always recommend this tablet to anyone who thinks they might want one, but cannot or will not spend a lot more money for a Wacom Tablet. If you have a lot of money to spend, definitely go with the Wacom, they are nicer, but if like most people you have to budget how much you spend, this Adesso CyberTablet 12000 is an incredible purchase for the money.

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