VT PenPad 7.7-Inch Graphic Pen Tablet (Black)

So, this tablet.I traveled heavily for work as a salesman for a year, gone about 325 days out of the whole year. While doing these sales in multiple markets, I wanted to keep up with my graphic work I would do on the side for a little bit extra cash during the downtime/travel for the sales job. I didn't want something bulky when flying from city to city, and I wanted something that would be able to take a beating without losing it's purpose. That when this guy came into play.PROS:1) Pressure sensitive brush. This was something I didn't know was going to be included but ended up working very nicely. I run on Windows 7 (EDIT: Now Windows 10) with CS6 of Photoshop. I have been able to use pressure for brushes the whole time. For a travel tablet, this is very responsive and smooth.2) This will work with ANY program that you can use your mouse. It literally can become a mouse replacement.3) You will be able to map it to a single monitor, a specified section of monitor, or span across multiple monitors. This is nice as I have a four monitor set-up, and being able to keep my pen focused on the monitor I keep Photoshop running on is wonderful. Certain other devices would not allow that and only allowed me to do the entire monitor landscape, which ruined fine motor work with a brush.4) This is a GREAT tablet for travel. I stick it in a backpack for a flight and it will bend with whatever is around it. Granted, you need to be careful, because too much pressure will surely break it, but it handles the normal movement of going through an airport (laptop out, through security, laptop in, movement, shoved under seat, shoved in overhead compartment, thrown in back of car). There is one tip that I will put in the CONS section.CONS:1) With the tablet being flimsy, you will need a hard surface to rest this on. I have yet to be in a situation where I wanted to use the tablet and i haven't been around a hard surface, so I can't say too much, but I know different artist out there that like to be on a bed or on other softer surfaces and this wouldn't be great for that.2) While this tablet is great for travel, it seems more prone to scratches on the writing surface. I had one originally that was shipped and was damaged in transit, and the groves that had been dug into the surface would pull my pen and make certain areas of the tablet unusable. I sent it back into Amazon and got a new one immediately.3) The pen is the worst portion of this whole thing. It is flimsier than the tablet. The shell that covers the batter cracked and now it is a little wonky. It still operates perfectly, but the pen has a bend to it that is sometime uncomfortable in the hand. I'm looking to find a replacement pen alone. I keep a piece of duct tape on the cracked portion and it keeps it a little more upright than if it wasn't there. The pen feels cheap, but does what it is supposed to do.4) Speaking of the pen, brush angle is something it can't pick up. It doesn't pick up angle of the pen, so shading, or if you are using any brush style that changing the angle of the pen would change the stroke on screen, this won't pick it up.Overall, for the price, you can't get anything better. I have had this now for almost a year and a half, using it for at least 10-20 hours a week, and the battery even still works in the pen. No grooves on the pad surface since purchase, nothing. It's been a great pad that has become my main pad.

I'm a Mac user and for 6 months have been using this tablet with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Rita (a fantastic and free digital sketching program available online). This is really excellent for sketching and doodling. I've used it to produce everything from web comics to graphics for web pages to promotional print materials for a global non-profit. It's perfect for sketching up images to be converted to vectors.Plus, it's so light and portable; I just toss it in my laptop case and it barely takes up any additional room. Can't vouch for Windows users of course, but for this Mac guy, it's great.EDIT: 10/14/2012: This thing still works! Was having some trouble with it of late, though: when I plugged in my tablet and started drawing with the pen, neither my external mouse nor my built-in laptop trackpad would do a normal click. The secondary click/right click still worked, but the primary click/left click didn't. Plus, the sensitivity on the tablet went all wonky: normally it detects my pen when I hover it up to about half an inch above the surface; this time it wouldn't detect it unless I was pressing firmly onto the tablet, which made it pretty much useless and my computer next-to-impossible to operate until it was restarted even when the tablet was disconnected.Using ActivityMonitor, and with some pushing and shoving, I managed to quit the two pen-related processes that were open, and then disconnect the tablet, which got my computer working again without needing to restart.I checked the battery in the pen, which was fine. I uninstalled the driver and installed a newer version. Same problem. I uninstalled the driver and tried using the pen without it; oddly enough, it worked better, but the pressure sensitivity was still off. Finally I swapped out the USB cable I was using (just on a whim) and then uninstalled the driver and re-installed the older version of the driver that actually came with the tablet. Now it's working perfectly again!I highly doubt swapping out the USB cable could impact anything. Therefore, I imagine the problem was the driver.EDIT: 11/26/2012: Still pretty happy with this guy but it goes on the fritz more and more frequently, with the pen strokes and the pressure sensitivity wobbling all over the place. Between restarting my computer and unplugging it and replugging it I can always get it to work again, but I think it's time to graduate to a slightly snazzier tablet. I've dropped my rating from five stars to three stars.

You get what you pay for. I thought I'd save some money and get this instead of purchasing a Wacom device, but with this you really do get what you pay for.First off, it comes packaged in cheap plastic with no padding whatsoever. That should have been an indicator of the quality right there. How many electronic devices of any real value or quality have you purchased that come poorly packaged?Onto the tablet itself. The size is okay. It's not super huge, but definitely workable and at least that is spelled out in the description. However the quality is way off and is super flimsy and made out of cheap plastic. I had used a Bamboo in the past and was expecting something similar, albeit not of the same caliber. This however, has the look and feel of a thick old school mouse pad. And to top it off, this tablet is flexible! It worried me a little, but I thought I'd give it a try anyway.There are no directions in the package, so I assumed the tablet was simply a plug and play device. Wrong, I plugged it in and it did not work (My computer runs Windows 7). I did some researching to try and find a driver but was unable to get it to work. This item was promptly returned to Amazon and I purchased a Wacom tablet which it runs perfectly.My advice, pay a little bit more and get something that will really work. Don't waste your money on this.