In short, better materials and experience for a higher price.įor those artists who feel they must have the Wacom feel, but do not want to stretch to the Intuos Medium Pro. The software and support are more reliable than the XP-Pen, and the Wacom pen itself is nicer. One last word on the alternatives: while nearly three times as expensive, with the Wacom Intuos Pro you get what you pay for. The value equation of tablets, in general, has been upended with cheaper products like the Deco Pro that feels like 80% of a Wacom for a third of the cost. It's worth bearing in mind that nearly three Deco Pen’s could be purchased for the price of one Wacom Intuos Pro. The Wacom tablet experience is still better, the software especially, plus Wacom offers more customer support, but this is still a good tablet that will service the majority of creatives well. With all that being said, artists on a budget looking to use a tablet all of the time should see the Deco Pro as a great starter tablet. Still, the software is not making the most of it. This is a shame, as, from a technical perspective, the XP-Pen matches the Wacom tablets with 8,192 levels of pressure sensitivity. While the drawing experience of the Pen is very similar to a Wacom, bar the eraser function, which is a pen side button click, rather than the end of the Pen. On the PC however, things definitely feel better, as Windows driver apps never feel as polished as their Mac counterparts. This is especially telling on the Mac, where the XP-Pen software runs as an application rather than a preference pane like Wacom’s software does. However, the driver software is clunky and does not feel like an integrated part of the OS like similar offerings from Wacom do. Don't get me wrong, the Deco Pro worked first time on both Windows and Mac.
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