Customer Reviews
Wacom Bluetooth Tablet 
2008-03-25
This is my second Wacom tablet. I still have my first, working fine; however, I wanted to go bluetooth. I love the feel of a tablet and, because I work a great deal in Photoshop, a tablet is the ONLY way to work. Takes a bit of getting used to but I don't use a mouse at all anymore! This tablet is very responsive and works well. My only "complaint" is that it occasionally drops the signal. At most, I just have to press the button again and it re-connects. If you do any sort of precise work on a computer, a tablet is the way to go. I kept the smaller tablet and actually take that on holiday with my laptop.
Daughter Loves It! 
2008-01-12
Purchased Wacom Graphire 6x8 Bluetooth tablet for my 15 year old daughter for Christmas. It took her only 10 minutes from opening package to installation.
Pen is so sensitive, drawing thick or thin lines depending on pen pressure. Bluetooth wireless tablet works very well.
EFFICIENT 2007-11-01
Purchased this Wacom so that I could more effectively work on illustrations on my computer. The pen is comfortable, and the mouse is even nicer. The only annoyance is the cover sheet that is placed on the top of the tablet but that can be easily removed.
Highly recommend this for anyone interested in computer illustration or design work. ++++
Wacom Graphire Tablet 2007-10-13
It is great for editing pictures and also for normal work and internet browsing. Very good item
Hover height inferior to Intuos 
2007-07-16
The short story:
Pros: Wireless!!!, Convenient Pen Holder
Cons: Poor Pen Hovering Distance
Bottom Line: If you've used an Intuos before, you won't like the Graphire! (at least the Bluetooth one...)
The long story:
I recently decided that I needed a tablet (again). My first tablet was several years ago, and it was a 9x12 Intuos. I got rid of it a couple of years later because it was too big. In the mean time, I used an Intuos tablet here and there at school. So, now I needed one of my own and started looking into Wacom's latest line-up.
I hadn't tried a Graphire before, so I was a bit skeptical. Resisting the wireless feature of this tablet was unbearable, so I knew I had to get this one. Plus, it was just the right size.
Compared to an Intuos of the same size, the Graphire really...well...sucks. The wireless feature is really nice, as well as the tablet's pen holder (genius). But this tablet really falls apart with the pen. The Graphire pen is about an inch smaller than the Intuos pen and does not feature a comfortable rubber grip.
The biggest problem I had was the pen's hover height. You can hold a Wacom pen over the tablet without touching it and still move the cursor. After you move a certain distance from the tablet, it stops registering the movement. With the Wacom, this is about 0.75 inches. The Graphire is roughly half that, about 0.4 inches. Personally, I hold the tip of the pen on the tip of my ring finger with my wrist straight while moving around...this registers on the Intuos, but it is too far away for the Graphire. So, to see hover movement on the Graphire, I have to twist my wrist, which is fairly uncomfortable. Again, this is just the way I use pens in general. So, for me, the Graphire's hover responsiveness is very poor.
Ok! here's the deal... 2007-07-04
For a faster and easier way to work digitally: with the Graphire pen tablet from Wacom photos, videos and graphics can be edited more precisely than ever before. Add your signature to documents, make a creative drawing or use advanced programs with ease. Together with a high-performance software package, there's almost no limit to your imagination. Discover the world of digital image editing! This Graphire Bluetooth 6x8 Tablet comes with Graphire pen, mouse, and Painter Essentials 2 by Corel, Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 and Color Efex Pro 2 GE by nik multimedia.
Great product, so useful! 2007-06-26
I switched to this tablet after using a Toshiba Portege tablet PC and a USB Wacom tablet and I couldnt be happier with this blue tooth design. It connects instantly when I turn it on with no lag. The battery really does last a long time, days for me of 8 hour work day use. I sue it for everything , not just art applications, to reduce the stress on my arm and back from using a mouse all day. I use this product on both Mac OS X and Windows XP on my Macbook Pro.
Ditto 2007-06-12
A previous review about using this tablet in the classroom intrigued me. That review was an understatent. This could replace the whiteboard. Imagine teaching division of fractions in real time without turning away from your students. It hooked up easily. Started up, and the day doesn't go by that I don't use it. The graphics programs were a nice bonus.
Veryfully good! with... just a minor problem... 2007-06-05
its been over 6 months ever since i had this tablet travel along with me to schools and to my friend's houses. I bought it as a high school senior and i remember researching alot - researching about this product over other tablets for about a month or so. I first came across this product when i was traveling in japan for marching band and i was really amazed how precise and accurate this tablet really was! The timing was perfect and i just fell in love.
Talking to my art and graphics teacher, they recommended me not to get it simply because the intuos had better qualities and better overall grip
i just decided to buy this simply because this tablet was WIRELESS!
thats not all (on a side note) - everytime u use the pen on the tablet, the power symbol on the tablet (top left) lights up from blue to green which is simply really cool to look at
so spending $200 + $50 dollars for the advanced bluetooth device, i just simply love it - no wires and my friends who had intuos envied how i could be over 30ft away and draw if i wanted to (and yes it still works!)
The only bad side to this tablet would be the fact that it perhaps feels really "cheap" compared to intuos like many people have stated and the pen for the tablet feels really unprofessional compared to the intuos pen.
another side note is that - i am a very clumsy person and i dropped my pen couple times and the "right button" key located near the tip of the pen kept falling out! (argh!) but it was easy putting it back - the only bad side is that i used to stress over trying to find where that button went to.
the last bad thing about this tablet besides the cheap feeling and the
"button on the pen going missing" would be the location of the button on the pen - u get used to it but at first (maybe for a month), you would probably keep pressing that "right key" on the pen by accident which would cause ur drawings to use the "undo" button which gets annoying after a while. making that perfect line that u just made disappear before ur eyes and u having to click redo over and over again! >:/ (but like i said u get used to the placement of the button later and so i dont do that anymore =])
so the conclusion. I feel EXTREMELY happy that i chose to get this tablet because it simply is extremely portable - no wires! and although it FEELS cheap, it is very durable (i accidently dropped it and stepped on it (im around 200lbs) over 20 times) and it still works PERFECTLY
u will get used to the
toothpick like pen and the
cheap plastic feeling
and this tablet just delivers what you need overall. although the screen does get scratched over 3-4 months, it really doesnt matter. And its very fun to let strangers who get amazed by this to try it and make new friends as well : ] (i frequently play drawing games like isketch or pictograph with my friends)
if u decide to get this tablet
just remember, always check to see if the button on the pen has gone missing and if anything seems weird... call ur 3 yr insurance thing - they should be there for support (although i heard they werent good)
overall, this tablet exceeds in battery life, efficency, durability, and precisions that i needed in art and graphics class. (just having one inspired my friends to get one too! =])
through it all, this tablet for me was worth every single cent i have saved for a whole year and i never regretted getting one.
hope this review helped you
-nak-
COMPUTER TABLET 2007-05-17
THIS IS FANTASTIC! I HAD NO PROBLEM INSTALLING IT ON MY MAC OR PC. THE PERFORMANCE FAR EXCEEDED OUR EXPECTATIONS. IT'S VERY EASY TO USE. GET ONE!
