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Bamboo (Small) Pen Tablet with Pen Only | 
| Brand: Wacom
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Rating:  119 reviews
Sales Rank: 119
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 7.9 x 0.5
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: MTE450
Model: MTE450
UPC: 753218994578
EAN: 0753218994578
ASIN: B000V9T2JA
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Box Contents - Bamboo pen tablet, Bamboo pen, Pen stand, USB cable, Quick start guide, Installation CD | | • | Active Area - 5.8 (W) x 3.7 (D) (21 square inches) | | • | Works with new handwriting recognition, inking and pen features in Windows Vista (all editions but Home Basic) and Apple operating systems (OS X) | | • | Supports widescreen displays and has a textured work surface for a natural pen-on-paper feel | | • | High resolution and report rate for outstanding accuracy |
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Product Description
Whether you're preparing a slide presentation or marking up documents, Wacom's Bamboo MTE450 pen tablet gives you more control with patented pen technology that puts the ability to personalize your work right in your hands.al documents, make quick sketches, and sign your name.Combine Bamboo with Mac Inkwell or Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 to handwrite email, enter text by hand anywhere typed text is accepted, navigate your desktop with a flick of the pen, and more.Bamboo works with any software. In fact, many software applications have special features and tools that are designed to be used with a pen.
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 Everything you need to know October 22, 2007
Lilly Flora (Portland, OR)
132 out of 157 found this review helpful
1. What does it look like?
The Wacom "BAMBOO" Pen Tablet is a black panel, about 6 inches long and 8 inches wide, and is nearly featureless save for a stylized "BAMBOO" logo on the bottom and an array of four buttons at the top, centered around a 1-inch-wide circular touch pad. The usable area of the tablet itself is about 4 inches long and 6 inches wide. The tablet comes with a pen-sized stylus and a cradle for the stylus (both also black). The "pen" features a soft, rubbery surface for easy gripping (good for people with sweaty hands).
Overall, it's a very sleek, professional-looking device.
2. What does everything do?
The four buttons on the top of the tablet can be set through the control panel to perform nearly any function, but the preset functions are as follows:
"<" button = "back", ">" = "forward", "FN1" button = "maximize/minimize window", and the "FN2" button performs the same function as hitting "Alt+Tab" on a keyboard (allows the user to switch quickly between currently-running programs).
The circular touch-pad serves multiple functions as well. At the top and bottom of the pad are small grey triangles pointing up and down. Sweeping, curved marks adorn the left and right sides of the pad. Generally, the triangular marks act as "scroll-up/scroll-down" buttons when tapped. Making a circular motion on the outermost edge of the pad allows the user to zoom in or out in an open window. When using a web browser, this generally only affects text-size, leaving images and borders unchanged. In the case of media players, this serves as a volume dial.
Both ends of the stylus can be used as the tip, though one is narrow (about the size of a ball-point tip) and the other is larger and blunt (like an eraser). About an inch from the "tip" is a two-function button that, when pressed on its lower side activates a scrolling feature (holding this button and dragging the pen across the tablet scrolls open windows in all four directions). The upper half of the button is essentially the BAMBOO's equivalent to a mouse's right-click. The tablet tracks the pen at a total distance of 1 centimeter above the surface, so constant contact between them isn't necessary (and not advised, since direct contact with the tablet is equivalent to a "left-click" on a mouse). It should be noted that the tablet responds only to the pen's touch--you can't use your finger or a normal pen or pencil in its place.
3. How well does it work?
Overall, the tablet works wonderfully. The feel of the pen on the tablet's surface feels almost exactly like a pencil on paper, and the adjustable tracking speed is a great convenience. The button on the side of the pen is somewhat awkward, but not unusable.
For newer PCs, (my own is fairly new, running Windows XP Home Edition), the tablet should be ready to use without even installing the drivers from the CD. The disk offers other features, however, such as tutorials on the BAMBOO's use and links to online resources. This instant plug-and-play ability is not always the case with USB devices, so the BAMBOO earns a few extra points for that.
On the down-side, I've noticed an annoying quirk in the responsiveness of the touch-pad. When using it to enlarge or shrink the text on a web page, the pad can alternate between ultra-sensitivity and not working altogether. This lead to my browser getting stuck a few times with the text being either ridiculously large or illegibly tiny.
Final Scores:
Aesthetics: 10/10
Versatility: 9/10
Ease-of-Use: 6.5/10
"Fun-Factor": 7.5/10
Still the Standard! Wacom's Bamboo Tablet Rocks! October 14, 2007
Mark (NY, NJ, CT USA)
69 out of 72 found this review helpful
Wacom leads in this technology by a long way. This product is affordable, yet powerful enough for many pros. The new Bamboo Fun line includes more colors and a mouse option. However, the pen only configuration is still my preferred choice.
The small size is perfect for most users. The "medium" sized tablet is suited for hard core graphics people who need to work at the pixel level on large images. Either way, the tablet maps to your screen size for any of these models.
This unit comes in a variety of colors and configurations. I prefer the look of the black tablet, but there are silver, white and blue ones also.
Bamboo Fun (Medium) Silver Tablet with Pen, Mouse & Graphics Software
Bamboo Fun (Medium) Black Tablet with Pen, Mouse & Graphics Software
Bamboo Fun (Medium) Blue Tablet with Pen, Mouse & Graphics Software
Bamboo Fun (Medium) Silver Tablet with Pen, Mouse & Graphics Software
Bamboo Fun (Small) White Tablet with Pen, Mouse & Graphics Software
Bamboo Fun (Small) Silver Tablet with Pen, Mouse & Graphics Software
Bamboo Fun (Small) Blue Tablet with Pen, Mouse & Graphics Software
Bamboo Fun (Small) Black Tablet with Pen, Mouse & Graphics Software
Upon plugging in the device, it works immediately! The pen works as a mouse or as a pen/brush for drawing applications. The tablet also has function buttons.
Installing the drivers and software allows you to access the settings and tools that make this device versatile and customizable.
For those that need lite versions of graphics programs, the other sets include them. Many people who buy this will already have full blown Adobe Photoshop.
Pros
+ USB connection
+ Works on XP and Vista almost plug and play - before software installation
+ Nice customizable software
+ No additional power adapter needed
+ Pen can be used as stylus or pen mouse
+ Small size is perfect for users not using the mouse
Cons
- The scrolling zoom function does not work uniformly on all applications
- New Bamboo Fun sets include more bundled applications - Adobe Elements and Corel Draw
- Default settings require some configuration for graphics editing
- The tablet would have been ideal with several additional USB ports
Overall, the graphic artist or visual junkie NEEDS one of these. If you are a casual user, it is worth getting one on sale. The small model with pen only will meet most users' needs.
Enjoy.
 May work great on Vista; on my Mac it is fidgety September 26, 2007
Nathan Andersen (Florida)
63 out of 90 found this review helpful
I had high hopes for this device, that promised both to serve as an alternative mouse-like device for selecting and clicking as well as to add an additional level of functionality to my Mac. It performs its mouse-like functions reasonably well -- it's a bit different than using the mouse, since I have to "hover" the point above the pad, as touching the screen can end up clicking things. There are some adjustments that can be made to find a mouse-like style that suits your needs, though. I'll still usually stick with my mouse but this seems to be something you could get used to.
As a drawing and inking device, this has been less satisfactory. I've used it in connection with Mac's Inkwell program only, and there are a number of glitches in the interaction between Bamboo and Inkwell. One of the most annoying glitches has to do with the eraser. Sometimes the eraser works as an eraser and sometimes it works as a pen. Sometimes it doesn't do either -- I turn the stylus over and rub to erase and nothing happens. Sometimes after using the eraser for a little while to erase, I turn the stylus back over and try to use it as a pen and the pen works as an eraser. There are other problems, but they are sporadic and hard to diagnose with precision -- it just seems to function a bit quirkily and not as a precise instrument (I have installed the driver and have read the fairly inexplicit technical manuals that come with the program but am unable to make this work better). I accept that these may be problems with Mac's software as much as with Bamboo -- but the products is advertised as able to work with my system (Mac OS X 10.3.9) and with Inkwell, and it kind of does but not very well.
 Tired of the same old mouse? September 20, 2007
Simon Cleveland (USA)
24 out of 36 found this review helpful
I have to say, this is one of the best products on the market that fit the criteria: 'Last minute gift idea for someone you love.'
IT is spoiling your self or your significant other. IT is - 'Let me show you something really cool...' type of product that will be remembered for a very long time.
The product supports the Windows and the Apple operating systems (OS X), widescreen displays (it looked really cool when I tried it on my 24 inch SonicView). The pad has a textured work-surface and creates that natural pen on paper feeling (all warm and fuzzy). Of course they didn't forget the high-res, which delivers an exceptional accuracy everyone can use.
The thing I liked the most was the quick access to shortcuts I defined myself with the four Express Keys. It's really easy. What else is easy is the scrolling and zooming with the finger sensitive touching Ring.
I recommend this for everyone who has ever wanted to experience something new and is concerned about ergonomic and comfortable supplement to mouse and keyboard input.
Amazing November 3, 2007
K. Crumrine (Chicago, IL USA)
23 out of 28 found this review helpful
Up until now I had a 12x12 Intuos. I am a graphic designer and illustrator and using the 12x12 for long periods made my arm really tire out. Now that I have the bamboo I can use it all day without a problem. Though the levels of pressure sensitivity are reduced on the bamboo I cant ever recall thinking "512 levels just isn't enough" When you push hard you get a think stroke if you touch lightly you get a light one. This thing just works.
Also, the removable USB chord is great. I can unplug it and shove it into my messenger bag. Something I could never have done with that mammoth 12x12.
I recommend this to anyone looking for a quality tablet at a cheap price.
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