Wacom Intuos A4 Wide?

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Hi Guys,

I'm looking into getting an Intuos for my photoshop and illustrator work and was wondering a couple of things...

• is this the best thing to get? wacom have a lot of products and i thought of the intuos simply due to the good press it gets...

• maybe i'm missing something, but surely in todays markey of widescreen monitors, widescreen is the way to go with a tablet... but there doesnt seem to be an A4 variant which i would have thought would have been most peoples first choice? is there one and i'm being blind?
 
matja said:
We have some of both the A4 and A4 wide versions at work, yes the normal A4 ones exist if you look arround. All the artists at work rate them highly (photoshop, 3DS Max, illustrator work) :)

They have very high build quality and are very durable. No jittering cursors here. With absolute mapping, I'd say that the wide version is the more logical choice if you have a widescreen or two monitors, other than that, only diff is the size. Works in Linux too w00t
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ok cool, well i thought it would be a bit mad not to make an A4 wide as i would have pitched that as the most popular one...

mind telling me where one can be bought from? none of your standard online shops have them, just A4 standard...
 
Chaos said:
You dont really need a widescreen version if you want to save some money, the drivers have a "force proportions" option, so that the active area of the tablet matches that of the screen.
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i aint fussed about saving money, i will have this tablet for a long time so want the one best suited for my application :)
 
matja said:
We have some of both the A4 and A4 wide versions at work, yes the normal A4 ones exist if you look arround. All the artists at work rate them highly (photoshop, 3DS Max, illustrator work) :)

They have very high build quality and are very durable. No jittering cursors here. With absolute mapping, I'd say that the wide version is the more logical choice if you have a widescreen or two monitors, other than that, only diff is the size. Works in Linux too w00t
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hi mate, are you SURE you have an A4 Wide? they really dont seem to exist?

there are A3 and A5 in wide, but not A4 :mad: (seems insane!)
 
do you guys with experience of these things really think it doesnt matter?

since i can't get A4 Wide it is between A4 Standard and A5 Wide anyway... i'm split, theres only 40 quid between them...
 
ok sound, that is what i wanted to hear :) so do you think the wide range is just a marketting gimmick?

also, would love to hear peoples opinions on a4 vs a5 for usability... like i said my main use will be photoshop, illustrator, fireworks, flash...
 
tsinc80697 said:
I'm getting the A5 wide next week sometime, decided on that as I use widescreen monitors and the A4 is HUGE, you measures desk space for the thing? Its really big l

Make sure you meausre desk space as thats the only thing I had against the A4, and the fact that the A5 wide suits me as I use widescreen monitors really :)

£157 from USA woo :D
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Hi mate,

i managed to get one ordered from the US, but over there its not an A5 Wide its called a 6x11" tablet...

it looks a lot more widescreen than our A5 wide do you happen to know it thats the case?
 
I bought it from amazon.com (who obviuosly dont deliver here) and got it delivered to a mates house in conneticut, who's gonna package it up like a gift and whack it in the post :)

EDIT: £160 ;)
 
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right, i looked into it and the special ed is not going to be released in the uk so i went ahead and bought one from the states ( so i have two now :rolleyes: ) - but i just wanted to ask people who use them, i have no usable warranty as obviously is a US one, are these things rock stable like they seem to be or can quirky things occur which will cause me problems leaving me up poo creak?
 
tsinc80697 said:
My old A6 one has lasted me 9 months no problems but I hardly used it.
Current 6x11 is going well after 15 days, wow just saying that seems like its half the length of time I've had it!

If it does go wrong your only option is to send it back to USA direct or to someone who lives in USA, what I have planned if anything goes wrong.
I've not heard of any problems with them though, seem quite sturdy :)
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sound mate, you not tempted with the special ed tom? i couldn't resits it to match my samsung 226 and razor tarantula :D
 
could someone with an A5 wide (uk version) mind measuring the main active bit in the center for me? i could swear my us version is wider than the pictures of the uk ones...

mine measures 28.5cm x 16.8cm

bloody love it tho :)
 
Dj_Jestar said:
6"x11" is what wacom.com states, which is 27.94cm x 15.24cm
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yeah i know but i'm just saying could someone measure the actual grey bit in the middle? mind seems a fair bit wider and was wondering if uk and us sizes are the same thats all :)

the us and uk sites quote different active area sizes ya see :)
 
another quick question about the intuos3...

the overlay bit in the middle (the lighter active area) can be lifted up at the bottom left, is this how it is supposed to be? is it a replaceable part like a snap on phone cover or is mine missing some glue? :p
 
huh, just noticed in my intuos3 box i have a transparent overlay :) very interesting... the current one seems well stuck down at the top tho i wouldn't want to yank that off :confused:

once you rip one off, is that game over? cant be stuck on again?
 
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