Wacom’s new Intuos5 pen-based tablets have multi-touch support received and differences on some of the subtle points of the predecessors, the Intuos4 models. However, the inputpennen of the old series with the Intuos5 tablets to use.
The Intuos5 series is in three sizes, Small, Medium and Large, available, with the Medium variant in a second, cheaper version without touch support is available. The hardware of the tablets supports on paper multitouch events on sixteen points, but the software records in the practice, the touch on up to five different points. The software has improved compared to the previous tablets: all actions are displayed on the screen, so that never to the Intuos5 tablets look need to be for settings.
The software also allows for a large degree of personalization, in which not only the sensitivity, but also the actions can be modified. So are menu options to adjust and be able to multi-touch gestures per program defined. Of course the tablets with pens with 2048 pressure levels are supported: the same as with the Intuos4 series. As a result older pens and other inputapparaten, such as mice, various pens and the Airbrush, also with the new series. The last controls are the physical buttons, which is a capacatieve overlay which on contact react.
The tablets have a compartment for the wireless adapter that Wacom as an option can provide: it allows the tablets, without a usb connection will be used. Depending on the tablet size, the battery life approximately fifteen hours, ten hours or six hours. The wireless kit costs forty euros; the smallest version of the tablets will cost 225 euros, the Medium will cost 370 euros – 300 euros for the version without touch support – and the largest Intuos5 costs 470 euro.
