Customer Reviews

Genius G-Pen 560, USB 4.5 x 6 tablet with cordless pen.

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This is the 1st Pen Pad I have bought for a PC, and for a frist-timer using one, this one was very nice. Easy to set-up, and fairly easy to use. The price was just right too. So, if you're thinking about trying one, but don't want to spend lots of money, then this is the one for you.

My daughter got this and absolutely loves it. For only 40 bucks, she can now draw much more detailed pictures on the computer and she can share them with friends via instant message or email. For a pro, this is not what you want obviously because it doesn't have all the bells and whistles. For a hobbyist or a child, this is great. It's affordable and decent quality and does its job even better than I expected.

i think it was fine when i first bought it - it's been some time since i've moved around my office and picked up drawing in photoshop for fun, but when I first got it I think it worked fine. Now, ive been trying to use it for the past 2 days with new batteries in the pen and it just glitches out. you'll start drawing and the pen won't work, or you'll attempt to draw and it just wont mark it in photoshop, it shows the pen moving but no ink is put down. i'd really recommend a different product other than this. i guess it shows you get what you pay for.

This was my first pen tablet.
So I didn't know if this product was good or bad.
It's cheap comparing with other kinds of pen tablet, so I didn't really wonder.
But my mom gave me an another kind of pen tablet(which is Bamboo's pen tablet), and that quality was so high.

With this pen tablet, I couldn't draw where I wanted.
It was still easier than with a mouse, but as a pen tablet, it sucked.

If you are buying your first pen tablet, I don't recommend this one.
Otherwise you'll think you can't draw well on the computer and give up.
With a good kind of pen tablet, you can draw better than you think.
I promise, this product isn't good at all.

I had to buy this for a class and can't install it properly on my macbook. It says it works with Mac OS 10.2.8 and above, but it doesn't. I have Leopard. The software won't install and the instruction manual only has instructions for PCs. The customer service number on the box is in Taiwan too. Don't waste time buying this; you'll only have to return it.

The photo of this tablet makes it look like has a built-in LCD screen to draw on. That's a feature normally found only in very expensive tablets, and it's not reflected in the specs for this product. Someone is playing games here. Beware.

I use this tablet to write Chinese characters. Writing them works in Windows 7 Ultimate, after a fashion. So does optical character recognition, after download and installation of the Simplified Chinese Language Pack from the Windows Update Website.

However, the handling of the stylus is skittish: it's difficult to draw a straight line or a smooth curve. Yes, I *am* holding the stylus as if it were a Chinese ink brush, but holding it as if it were a pen does not help. After trying for some hours, I've come to the conclusion that I'll do better to use my optical mouse for writing Chinese characters.

Actually I'd rather use this tablet under Apple Mac OS X, but the manufacturer KYE (aka Genius) has not written any drivers for OS X since version 10.4. So the tablet is useless under current versions of OS X.

This, too was my first pen tablet. It was random gift, and so I have no right to speak about pricing.
I have a (last-year's) Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard and the drivers were compatible. Meaning, it works fine with a Mac. I'll be bold to assume it works with any current Mac, since mine is the newest [Get ready for Lion, people]. The only downside was that apparently something happened during the first installation, an incompatibility bug maybe, that I now have a startup error every time I boot up. But if you take off notifications on your Mac, this shouldn't appear.
The product at no point advertises to have an LCD screen, so please, don't rant about how the manufacturing of this product is a scheme to steal your money and so on.
It is only logical, for a large but ambiguous company like Genius to design the product that implies it does more than it actually does. This is no more a marketing scheme than McDonald's associating the luxurious color red with their burgers.

The tablet itself is actually extremely close to the advertised color palette. The colors and shapes used are the kind that you would find on a "hip" 1999 computer accessory. The USB cable is its ugliest feature, taken directly from an early 2000's manufacturing line. But that's okay; you can look at it as a vintage novelty product. The tablet's working area appears to be smaller in the product pictures than it really is; it is quite large. The rest of the surface area of the tablet serves as a hand-rest, and is quite successful at this.
Performance-wise, it's a matter of getting used to the product. Once you map out in your head where everything correspond to on your computer screen, as would be the case with any new tablet, you'd easily get accustomed to navigation. The F1-F12 function keys don't apply to me, since Apple has taken the liberty of associating the keys with functions already, but I honestly have no idea if they are even interactive on the tablet. I think the assigning of functions to the function keys is just just another marketing boost, since you can probably do this on a windows without the product. However, the software does make it simple to [hypothetically] assign functions to function keys. Adjustments to the pressure of the pen's tip in the included software need to be made before you can comfortably use the pen; otherwise, you'd think the product is defective.
The pen's hot-keys are really uncustomizabe, even with the included software- each can only be assigned the use of a standard click, double click, or secondary click (which is the product's Achille'd Heel for me). Also note that the Pen's eraser tip has no functionality whatsoever. It just looks a little pretty.
I guess that's it... The product works fine for me (as a Graphic Designer). Its functionality as a basic pen tablet depends on how much effort you put into familiarizing yourself with the product.

I would not reccomend buying this product. I bought if for myself around the holidays because of the good price. It worked great for about a month and a half, but then up and died on me. That's what I get for going for the bottom-of-the-line product.

The tablet/pen arrived in excellent shape, including all its promised components, and in a very short time. Seller was prompt, courteous and professional.