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Wacom Bamboo Touch

Bamboo Touch lets you add Multi-Touch input to any computer. Navigate, scroll and accomplish all your tasks using simple hand gestures. With the tablet's ample touch area, there's more room to navigate than you'd experience with a mobile device or a traditional notebook trackpad.

  • Multi-Touch input for intuitive control
  • Use fingers for navigation and gestures
  • Simple gestures to scroll, zoom, rotate and more
  • Spacious active area provides ample room

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Overview

Bamboo Touch lets you add Multi-Touch input to any computer. Navigate, scroll and accomplish all your tasks using simple hand gestures. With the tablet's ample touch area, there's more room to navigate than you'd experience with a mobile device or a traditional notebook trackpad.

Work naturally

Make your every gesture count. Scroll, zoom, rotate or flip through photos and documents, all with ample tablet space. With Multi-Touch, complex commands are as easy as a gesture.

Easy compatibility

Use it with any existing computer: desktop or notebook, Mac or PC. Attach it to a standard USB port and set it comfortably by your keyboard.

Features

  • Multi-Touch input for intuitive control
  • Use a single finger for navigation and multiple fingers for gestures
  • Simple gestures make it easy to scroll, zoom, rotate, move backward or forward
  • Spacious active area gives you ample room to perform gestures
  • Four user-defined ExpressKeys™ for shortcuts or clicks
  • Easy USB connection to Mac or PC, notebook or desktop
  • Interactive tutorial helps you learn gestures and make the most of your Bamboo

Did you notice?

Multi-Touch is comfortable and natural, letting you use simple hand gestures and finger taps on the tablet's surface to scroll, zoom, rotate and more.

Apple Recommends for...

Easily navigate all the images and documents on your Mac.

System requirements

Mac

  • Mac OS X v10.4.8 or later
  • PowerPC G4 or G5 or Intel processor
  • USB port
  • DVD drive

PC

  • Windows 7/Vista/XP
  • USB port
  • CD/DVD drive

Technical specifications

  • Pressure levels: 1024
  • Resolution: 2540 lpi
  • Max. data rate: 133 pps
  • Accuracy: +/- .02 in (+/- 0.5 mm)
  • Connectivity: Standard USB
  • Orientation: Reversible for right- or left-handed users
  • Tablet dimensions (WxH): 5.4 x 8.2 in./137 x 208 mm
  • Active area (WxH): 4.9 x 3.4 in./125 x 85 mm
  • Weight: 7.6 oz./215.46 g

What's in the box?

  • Wacom Bamboo touch tablet
  • Quick start guide
  • Installation CD (includes tablet driver, tutorial and user's manual)

Warranty

One year (For details, please visit www.wacom.com/productsupport/warranty.php.)

Mfr. Part No.: CTT460

 

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2.5

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  • Wacom Bamboo Touch

    3.0

    Just not the same experience as using MACBOOK touch pad.

    Written by AH from /

    Oct 17, 2009

    Used this Bamboo Touch tablet for almost 3 weeks and I was using Logitxxx Trackman Marble wire trackball before. Found several problems from this tablet. (1) - Hand started feeling tired after 15 mins of use, since I can't rest my hand or fingers just on the tablet when I don't use it. I've to hold my fingers on the air. (2) - After long time of rubbing my finger on the tablet, I'm feeling painful. (3) - Only support 2 fingers control, so some useful feature used by 3 or 4 fingers control is missing. There have 4 custom buttons next to the tablet, so I've to use those buttons instead of 3/4 fingers touch to trigger the Dashboard/All Windows/Desktop switch/etc. I still prefer 3/4 fingers touch instead of the buttons, since I always touch the wrong place or button without actually looking at it. It made thing slow. (4) - Can not use the handwriting recognition comes with the Snow Leopard. I'm feeling so disappointed, since this hardware doesn't support at all. I know there is another version of Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch tablet can do handwriting recognition, but it comes with bigger size of tablet, and I've to use the pen provided by Wacom, instead of using the finger to input. Also I have to use the software provided by Wacom to write the Chinese. I can not use the one comes with Snow Leopard for writing Chinese. (5) - The move on the tablet just as not good as the touch pad on my MACBOOK. This is just my feeling. (6) - I suggest to buy this if you are thinking to get rid of the mouse. Trackball is not bad, but I've got inflammation of my thumb muscle after using it for a month (Thanks Logitxxx), that's why I changed it to tablet finally. I think the best way to get rid of inflammation is to change the input device by time to time, when you are feeling tired. I hope this review can help people to make decision easier. …More

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  • Wacom Bamboo Touch

    1.0

    Bamboo Touch

    Written by TK from Seattle

    Oct 14, 2009

    Poor response- to touch, have tweaked settings many times. Pad is sensitive only in certain areas.

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  • Wacom Bamboo Touch

    1.0

    Surprisingly Poor for Wacom Product

    Written by LT from Honolulu

    Oct 25, 2009

    I'm a regular owner and user of Wacom's tablets and though their pen tablets are practically perfect, it seems they haven't perfected their multitouch technologies yet.

    There's considerable response delay in tracking and clicking time and the sensitivity's erratic. Random clicking/right clicking happens while trying to just motion across the screen even while not lifting your main finger. I suspect even having other fingers hovering slightly trigger the clicking actions.

    This problem was frequent in just the setup tutorial alone, and testing it with web browsing and Photoshop showed there was unwanted clicking taking place much too often. Following these initial tests, I also downloaded the updated driver for this tablet from Wacom's support site to see if these bugs would be fixed—no avail

    If you're looking for a multitouch alternative—stick to Apple's multitouch technologies or Wacom's standard pen tablets for reliability.     …More

    24 of 29 people found this useful

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  • Wacom Bamboo Touch

    2.0

    Good concept.... doesn't live up to the hype.

    Written by MC from Charlotte

    Nov 17, 2009

    I really wanted to like this product. I REALLY did. I had a macbook pro for about a year and a half, then moved to a desktop setup, but really missed the multi-touch pad the macbook had. I had been away from a mouse for so long that it began to feel much more natural to use the touch pad.

    With that said, this is not a bad product, it just can't live up to the apple touch pads. It doesn't track as well, the multitouch functions aren't as responsive, and it has a cheap feel to it. It has a strange hollow sound when you tap it that makes it feel like it might break under your hand at any moment. Granted, it never actually did break.... and it might not, but it doesn't have the solid feel of the mac touch pad. The concept is GREAT. Actually, if apple came out with their own multi touch pad that simply incorporated their technology into a USB device (or bluetooth wireless.... although I'm not a fan of putting batteries in stationary devices like keyboard, etc) I'd buy it in a second.

    In short.... this might be a good buy for you if you haven't already been spoiled by the amazing macbook pro touchpad. Unfortunately, I have been... so back to the store it went. Hello magic mouse!     …More

    5 of 6 people found this useful

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  • Wacom Bamboo Touch

    3.0

    I want to like it...

    Written by MM from Menlo Park

    Oct 31, 2009

    I have a Bamboo. I do like it and I'll continue to use it. But the deficiencies that people point out above are true - the "tap-click" sensitivity is just off; occasionally the clicking sticks and I need to get out my mouse to un-stick it; and it can misinterpret taps... it's just oddly both too sensitive and not sensitive enough. And, as someone mentioned, it's hard to use and not have your hand get tired out. Maybe they need to integrate scrolling/tapping that allows you to rest your 3d and 4th fingers on the track pad? it would work if it were 50% as large, but given the size, it's hard to use. Again, I basically like it, but it could use a lot of refinement before I'd recommend it. …More

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  • Wacom Bamboo Touch

    2.0

    Not A Mouse Replacement

    Written by SH from Duncanville

    Oct 30, 2009

    I own a Mac Pro and a Macbook Pro (unibody). The Multi-Touch trackpad on the Macbook Pro is the best tracking surface I've ever used on a laptop. It is so good that I've stopped carrying an external mouse in my laptop bag. I bought the Bamboo Touch hoping that it would work the same and I could use it on my Mac Pro. As touch surface it doesn't even come close and was barely usable after trying it for a week (8+ hours per day). I cannot recommend this product as a mouse tracking surface, but the build quality is high and the pen capabilities are what I expected. …More

    9 of 10 people found this useful

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