Was dead wrong about those cheap drawing tablets for 3 years

I always told people those $70 no-name tablets from Amazon were garbage compared to the big brands. My buddy picked one up last December just to try digital art and I laughed at him. Then he showed me his line work from last week and I honestly couldn't tell the difference from my Wacom. The pressure sensitivity was actually smooth and the driver setup took like 5 minutes. He only paid $65 for it on a sale too. I'm thinking about grabbing one as a travel backup now but worried I'll just be wasting money. Anyone else had a surprise hit with a budget tablet that changed your mind?

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hayden46611d ago

I mean, the Huion ones have been getting better for years now, but 65 bucks is stupid cheap. What exact model did he grab, I want to look up the specs and see if it has the same lag issues my old $40 tablet had. The driver thing is the real test though, because if it works right out of the box and doesn't need a bunch of tweaking in the software, that's basically winning the lottery at that price point. Was he using it plugged in or did it have some kind of wireless connection that added any delay?

wyatt5210d ago

My buddy Mike got a $60 XP-Pen from a pawn shop of all places last year and it was legit shocking. @hayden466, he was using it wired and the lag was barely there, like way better than that old Huion I tried in 2019 where the cursor would ghost like crazy. He let me do a quick sketch on it and the pen detection was actually solid down to the lightest tickle of pressure. The only catch was the driver software had this weird popup bug that took him like 2 minutes to fix by reinstalling, but after that it ran smooth for months. I was about to buy my own until I realized the surface already had a small scratch from the pawn shop that bugged me. Still, for the price it made me feel like I was overthinking my whole Wacom setup.