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Let's cut to the chase, shall we?
This tablet is flawed. The drivers with the CD, as others have stated, are outdated. You have a choice of getting your PenPad drivers from either the Yiynova website, or alternatively there is a slightly newer version currently available from Waltop themselves. MAKE SURE YOU UNINSTALL ALL WACOM DRIVERS. I can't emphasize this enough - they can and will screw everything up and turn the hardest part (installing drivers) into a nightmare ordeal. Uninstall them, do a restart, and get the new drivers in there. Make sure you see Wacom's website for uninstall instructions, as there are additional files that you have to track down and delete to ensure they're fully gone.
After fiddling with the drivers, then comes the pen. The battery that came with mine showed up DOA, so I tried a fresh one. I can see the red 'on' light flash briefly when screwing the two components of the pen stylus together, but didn't find out until about an hour of frustration that you must screw the pen TIGHTLY together - do it with the pen on so you can see the red light come on and stay on when you've sufficiently tightened the barrel. Unfortunately, this also cascades into the rubber grip popping the side buttons slightly out of place when you're tightening it. A minor annoyance, easily corrected by shifting the rubber grip and gently pressing the buttons back into place, but still a bit of a design flaw that could be much improved upon.
I also noticed, with much confusion, that the on-screen tablet does not work outside of art programs like Paint Tool SAI and Adobe Illustrator. The cursor simply goes dead until you use a mouse to click back into one of those programs and then the on-screen tablet comes back to life. I'm not sure if this is how it's supposed to react or if there are still some issues regarding the drivers.
In spite of all this, you may notice that I still gave the tablet 4 stars. When the tablet works, it works very well. I've been spoiled by the pressure sensitivity of the Intuos4 for several years now, but the tradeoff of pressure for the ease and boost in productivity I've seen since working on the MSP19 is so worth it. It takes some getting used to if you've never worked with an on-screen tablet, but the learning curve is not steep at all. There is some discrepancy between where the tip of your pen is and where the cursor is on the screen, but you'll encounter this even with Cintiqs and I grew accustomed to it very quickly - just within an hour or two of initial use.
Weight-wise, the monitor has a bit of heft to it, but it's not unmanageable. The adjustable stand in the back is a very nice addition, and I've found that this tablet rests comfortably in my lap if I need to get up close. It's easy to pick up and move around as needed if you don't want to buy the adjustable stand add-on. My only lament is the lack of hotkey buttons, which I hope will be included in future models.
If you're like me and you're agonizing on whether to go with the 10" model or the 19", stop wondering and spring for the 19". It's a third of the price of the newest (and smallest) Cintiq models with highly comparable specs. You have more space to make wide, sweeping gestures, and you will save yourself a lot of pain and hand cramping since you have a ton of real estate to work with.
Despite its shortcomings, I am extremely happy with this tablet and hope to see the company take their success further into the future with better, sleeker, and more responsive models. Wacom could use some healthy competition.
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This is a perfect LCD Graphics Tablet with great performance for digital painting, comics art, and so on. It's extremely sturdy, the screen is solid, and most of all its stylus driver supports any known painting software on the planet, incl. MangaStudio EX4, which didn't work on my Bosto 19" Kingtee at all. Not even both companies painstaking tech support could help me make fix the pen displacement. I highly recommend Yiynova! The seller is very accurate and will answer all your questions promptly. I never had any stylus/driver issues after installation, calibration, and restart. The inking/painting process is very smooth and it rarely lags on a laptop with 4GB Ram, running Win XP Tablet Edition, which is very light and not Ram-hungry like Vista or Win7. The tablet comes with the solid vesa stand and FREE shipping. In my opinion and personal experience with it, this is The Perfect Wacom Cintiq alternative for students and artists on the budget. I'm extremely satisfied with it!
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