Bamboo is the latest pen tablet for PC from Wacom. It’s not made of bamboo, but from such a matte plastic that is widely used in the touchpad notebook/netbook. Wacom Bamboo actually does look like a large touchpad. Moreover, multi-touch feature and multi-gesture on the touchpad. There are 4 products of Wacom Bamboo: Bamboo, Bamboo Fun, Bamboo Touch and Bamboo Pen.
Panel touch of Bamboo size smaller than a sheet of A4 paper, dominated by a touch-sensitive area is about 19×13 cm (on Bamboo Touch). Field touch with plastic protector that will not wear out by the pressure and touch again.
With Bamboo, we also made easier in editing photos, editing video, painting / drawing, writing notes, to surf the Internet without touching the mouse. Users can write handwritten notes as written on the paper in Microsoft Office, or in Windows Journal.
Bamboo work at cross-operating system, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS X. Linux users do not need to worry because the open source operating systems are also supported. But the driver was made by supporters of open source, not from Wacom.
Price of Bamboo Touch but without the pen is US $ 80, the same as Bamboo Pen with a pen. Meanwhile Bamboo equipped with Adobe Photoshop Elements 6/7 software and the Ink Squared Deluxe is released on estimated price of US $ 115. While the Bamboo Fun without Ink Squared Deluxe replaced by Corel Painter Essentials 4 is estimated to be sold at a price of US $ 200.
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