Adesso CyberTablet 6400 6" X 4.5" Graphics Tablet with 2 Button Pen and Wireless Mouse

by Adesso Inc

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11 x 14 x 2.8 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00083Y1BS
• Item model number: CYBERTABLET 6400
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Ergonomically designed wireless tablet with scroll mouse for easy drawing, handwriting, sketching, coloring and picture editing. With its 6" x 4" work space, the CyberTablet 6400 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.

Enhance Photos

Quickly and easily edit your digital photos using the control of the CyberTablet pen and your free copy of PhotoImpact XL. Take your skills to the next level with this advanced photography software.

Draw and Paint

Create great looking artwork with the natural feel of your CyberTablet pen and the amazing capabilities of the control you need to quickly and easily edit your digital photos. It works great with any software your mouse does and runs on both PCs and Macs. Mark up, Sign, and More

The included CyberTablet pen makes it easy to sketch and write notes in Microsoft Office XP and Apple word processors. Mark up documents in Microsoft Word, annotate presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint, and even jot a note to friends and family.

Professional Graphics Tablet

• USB connection for quick installation.
• Transparent photo frame for easy personalization with photos and artwork.
• Includes 12 function keys for automated tasks.
• High resolution, supports up to 3048 lines per inch.
• Active tablet space: 6" x 4"

Wireless Drawing Pen

• 512 levels of pressure-sensitivity for natural brush control.
• Precise, light and fast-moving cordless pen.
• Dual mouse buttons on pen for efficiency right at your fingertips.
• A natural digital input solution that can prevent you from injuries to your wrist.

Cordless Mouse

• No ball to gum up, so you always have smooth, accurate tracking
• 3 button ergonomic wireless mouse with scroll wheel for right and left handed users.

Product Description

Design, write, draw, sketch, all with the sleek and affordable CyberTablet 6400. This ergonomically designed graphics tablet includes a scroll mouse and a 6" x 4" work space, that lets you naturally draw and write freehand graphics and text as comfortably as you would on real paper.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good tablet for fine pointing, works so so with linux, August 29, 2006

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J. Hall - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adesso CyberTablet 6400 6" X 4.5" Graphics Tablet with 2 Button Pen and Wireless Mouse (Personal Computers)

This tablet will let you point and drag far more acurately than a good mouse or trackball. That being said this tablet is clearly inferior to even older wacom tablets in a few ways, but it is much less expensive. As a second tablet in a family or small office this tablet could provide all the features of a more expensive tablet by swaping it. ;)
Unlike the Wacom models this tablet pen requires a battery but a battery seems to last many many hours as I have not had to replace the first one yet.
If you need a tablet and are a general computer user, graphics or photo enthusist and on a budget I'd definitely consider the Cybertablet 6400. It worked well for me creating an animation in flash mx and also worked fine in illustrator. I used it on XP pro. I also used it in linux with gimp and inkscape. ( more below)
It hurts my hands to use mice so I have not tried the mouse. I use trackballs and tablets. Addtionally I don't really use digital tools that use the angle that pen comes in contact with the tablet so I don't have anything to say about it.

The main reason I reach for a tablet is the comfort and Accruacy of useing refined movements of my fingers to control the point of the pen to precisely manipulate digital tools. This tablet and pen will help control where you point and move your tools and you can use it to control the pointer as you would a mouse to change settings and control the desktop.
This tablet will help you place the postion of your digital tool with a similar functionaly to other tablets.

One major difference is in the way the tablet and pen conbination delivers preasure sensitvity. The cybertablet pen tip retracts into the pen body. Pressing the pen tip into the body is how it seems to be 'pressure sensitive'. Certainly one has to apply pressure to get the tip to retract but as it retracts it feels more like pressing in further than pressing harder. It feels like more of a function of distance than presure. I found it easier to attempt to use the pen perpendicuarly to the tablet when using pressure sensitivity.
Wacom pressure sensitiveity is in the tablet not the pen and is more authentically presure sensitive.

LINUX (Gentoo x86, kernel 2.6, kde)
I got rudmentary functionality in linux using the aiptek usb tablet driver. ( As root user type "modprobe aiptek") It has some quriks with maping the screen to the tablet but i found it usable in gimp. Most notablly I needed to place the windows and dialogs about an inch from the edges of the screen as the pointer would ocasionally 'stop short'. This may be related to my mouse acceleration setting in KDE. In linux, pressing in the pen tip translated to a standard left click. Presure sensitivity does not seem to work however. It seems the driver sees it as either pressed or not pressed. This is understandable given the driver was written for another tablet but happens to work with this one. You may be able to tweek things in a config file someplace but given the experience I had with preasure sensitivity in windows it's probably not worth the time to try to figure it out.
I like swiching bettween this tablet and my kensington trackball.
I am an intense comptuer user and so it's also good for fatigue reduction to swich off pointing devices a few times during the day.
If you need a fine control input device and care mainly about where and not how hard then this tablet and pen are fine.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware, March 16, 2006

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Earl P. Vaughn - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adesso CyberTablet 6400 6" X 4.5" Graphics Tablet with 2 Button Pen and Wireless Mouse (Personal Computers)

Save yourself a lot of time, money and frustration.

I had sucessfully used a Wacom PenPartner for several years and, when I bought a new computer in December, decided to get a new pen.

The driver that came with the Adesso CyberTablet is several years old and was very unstable. After a few minutes of use, the pen and included Adesso mouse, stop responding, although the mouse that came with computer still work fine. Rebooting the computer usually fixes the problem but the same thing happens again after a few minutes. Changing USB ports offers no help.

When I went to the Adesso website the only driver they offered is also several years old.

My letter to tech support was answered after several days. The tech support guy said that was the only driver they had and my tablet must be defective. If I would return the unit in the original shipping container with the original receipt they would send me a new unit.

Having already wasted enough time and money I decided to order a Wacom and write the Adesso off to experience.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For the bucks..., March 10, 2006

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J-Roy (Key West, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adesso CyberTablet 6400 6" X 4.5" Graphics Tablet with 2 Button Pen and Wireless Mouse (Personal Computers)

The pen and tablet work fine...they could leave out the $2.00 mouse. The tabs on the pen(R&L click) are very awkward to use so far.
Take some time to play with your settings...at first I hated the response but now it's OK and will be more useful with practice.
The software is lightweight and poorly supported.
I chose this over the $250 Wacom cause I'm not yet a pro and don't need the best or most expensive...and besides, the Adobe CS2 programs that I use it with are fantastic already.