Genius G-Pen F610 Ultra-Slim Tablet
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Customer Review: Christmas Gift
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a Christmas Gift for our Daughter. This is what she wants, and know it will be the perfect gift for her. Thanks for your fast service.Customer Review: perfect product
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a product my son's uses for school. If you like to do art projects this product is a must.Customer Review: Comparative review of Genius F610 versus Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen
Summary: 4 Stars
Comparative review of Genius F610 versus Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen
THIS REVIEW IS NOT FOR PROFESSIONALS
4 stars in the price range.
In the low price range Genius F610 is a very awesome device provided you have latest drivers, latest operating system such as Windows 7 64 bit and proper monitor (monitors) setup.
I have three computers and two different tablets. The first tablet I bought was Wacom Bamboo Fun pen, the one you can get at about the same price as Genius F610 at any Best Buy store. Wacom Bamboo fun pen is quite functional pen device for an amateur artist, but it comes with a number of annoyances. For instance, it does not map out properly to 1920X1080 monitor and if you have dual 24" monitors you end up having to glide the cursor in repeating arcs over the plane of the table to get the mouse pointer from one age of the screen(s) to the other.
Genius F610 does not have that problem. It maps out to the dual 24" monitors or a single 24 monitor at 1920X1080 res quite nicely. You never have to guess where your cursor is going to be. It will be where you press it on the tablet. So for instance if you press the pen in the upper right corner of Genius F610 tablet the mouse pointer will be in the upper right corner of the screen. If you have dual monitors with same size and resolution and a single desktop configuration (both monitors make up one wide screen) the middle of the tablet will be the middle of that large virtual screen. This can't be achieved with Bamboo Fun Pen.
The package contains three CDs, one with the windows drivers, one with the Mac drivers and one with rather cheap photo editing software. The updated drivers are also available on their website [...] and if you are running Windows 7 64. I highly recommend getting the latest drivers.
While Bamboo Fun pen activates the brushes in Photoshop at slightest touch (which to me is very annoying) Genius F610 requires a slight pressure to activate the brush. Unlike Bamboo fun pen it does not install over-bloated software that has to run all the time to support the pen and it integrates seamlessly with 64 bit Windows 7.
The tablet comes with touch buttons; those are not real buttons but rather edge areas of the tablet that you can program to launch different applications. This setting is enabled by default but is rather useless and very annoying. I would rather have those assigned to the tools in Photoshop, but I have not figured out a way to do that (if this at all possible). So this is the one thing that is disabled in my setup. (minus one star for that) Bonus of turning the edge buttons off is more working area of the tablet.
The tablet has a plastic screen which protects the sensor area from scratching, if you buy a used one, and the plastic overlay was removed, the performance of the tablet would be significantly degraded.
The pen has three different clicks; the long press activates the right click function everywhere except in brush mode in Photoshop. The pen tip is also nicer and moves across the tablet smoother then Bamboo Fun pen. The tablet itself also doubles as a mouse pad and Logitech Performance MX mouse has no problem working on its surface. Bamboo Fun pen requires a mouse pad if you also want to use mouse for your non graphic computer use. For me having tablet double as a mouse pad is a bonus because this saves space on my desk.
Bamboo Fun Pen has two large buttons that I had to disable because I kept on hitting them and causing unwanted clicks. The pen mode of the Bamboo Fun pen is completely useless and jerky, while Genius F610 is incredibly smooth.
However, on my Dinosaur Windows XP Genius F610 performs rather badly, and with a square resolution monitor the working area is limited to the center of the tablet. If you run Windows XP and have a square rather the wide monitor this device is not for you. Also the performance of Genius F610 on Windows XP are not that grate, very jerky, at least on my dinosaur machine with a single core processor. On Windows 7 64bit with dual 24" monitors at 1920X1080 each, a high end video card and i7 processor Genius F610 work perfectly. I have noticed that the performance of the tablet also depends on the monitor resolution, if you have a square resolution the tablet software has to re-calculate the position all the time and that causes the jerkiness. The tablet performs best on wide screen resolution.
If you want something more convenient them mouse for your graphic work and do not want to spend $2000 on a sexy Wacom *high-end* tablet I would recommend Genius F610 over similarly priced low end Wacom Bamboo Fun pen.
Customer Review: Using it on a new iMac
Summary: 4 Stars
I am a working cartoonist who needed to buy a new graphics tablet because I just upgraded my home system from my workhorse Win98 PC to a new iMac. After doing some research, I realized an entry-level Wacom Bamboo was too small and might not be a good match with a widescreen iMac. The higher professional level Wacoms, however, seemed too pricey, esp. since I had done fine previously for nearly a decade with a 4x5 Aiptek tablet connected to my PC.
After doing some research I decided to try the Genius G-PEN F610 since it was priced under $100 at the time of purchase. I just received it today.
It is working fine on the desktop and within Photoshop, and I am already getting great output and linework with no lag. (Up until now, I primarily used the tablet for coloring, not for drawing. The larger space of this tablet, however, sure seems roomy and more accommodating for drawing, so I may explore this more.)
HERE IS THE ONE WORD OF WARNING THOUGH FOR MAC USERS WITH NEWER SYSTEMS: BE SURE TO INSTALL THE LATEST VERSION OF THE MAC DRIVER FROM THE GENIUSNET.COM WEBSITE (version 1.72 of the Mac OS X driver). The version that came on the CD with the product was v 1.68--it did not install properly (I couldn't even open the configuration software for the pad), and made the pen virtually useless within Photoshop in that it was skipping and not giving me a smooth line. Fortunately, I explored online and found a more up to date driver that worked with my Mac OS 10.5.6 system and which immediately corrected the problem.
So I'm pleased to report I'm very pleased with tablet and won't need to return it!!
Customer Review: Not so great with 3-d
Summary: 4 Stars
I am a freelance designer who is just starting out and getting ready to go back to school. This graphics tablet works better than my training tablet, although there are a few things that irk me.
The macro buttons wouldn't work for me on my laptop, even through I had programed them the way I wanted. Also, when I would make sweeping lines while painting in PS, it tended to trip the macros in the top and open all the programs.
Also, it's hard to use this with Blender. Trying to use the buttons for all the commands is really hard -- sometimes you have to press the buttons several times for the menus to come up.
Having the extra tips for drawing is always a plus, since even the top of the line models require them after heavy use, but that shouldn't be a problem. I've been using my tip now for six months, and there's hardly any wear on it.
Other than those problems, this is a wonderful tablet. It works great with XP, and with any design software. If you're a beginner at tablets, this one is great to learn on.