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Genius MousePen 8 x 6-Inch Graphic Tablet for Home and Office | 
 enlarge | Brand: Genius
Category: CE
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $45.82
You Save: $54.17 (54%)
New (38) Used (3) from $45.82
Rating:  168 reviews
Sales Rank: 251
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 8 x 6 x 0.6
nv:Device Type: Tablet, Pen and Mouse Combo
MPN: MousePen 8X6
Model: MousePen 8X6
UPC: 091163213123
EAN: 0091163213123
ASIN: B000LEI95I
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 8 x 6-inch working area, comfortable for easy drawing, painting and using the PC | | • | 1024-level pressure sensitivity for all kinds of shapes and thickness control | | • | Make handwriting notes/drawings on the Internet and in any application program | | • | Cordless mouse and pen design gives you unlimited freedom | | • | 3D scroll wheel for fast browsing on the Internet and in Windows documents |
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Product Description
The Genius MousePen 8X6, USB 8"x6" Graphic Tablet for Home and Office. Make handwriting notes and drawings on the Internet and in any application program. 1024-level pressure sensitivity for all kinds of shapes and thickness control. 8"x6" working area, comfortable for easy drawing, painting and using the PC.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 163 more reviews...
 Mac users, beware November 15, 2008
Notice that the good reviews come from windows users.
I got this as a birthday present. Unfortunately, even though the product claims to support Mac OSX, it really doesn't. Here is my list of problems:
* The CD included is ANCIENT. Forget the free software, the CD does not contain the mac versions.
* Even the most recent drivers from their website are bad. They mess up some permissions and upon installation and reboot, you need another reboot to fix them.
* It is NOT compatible with INK. That means, forget the handwriting recognition, unless you have some other program of your own.
* The pen works as a mouse (after the painful driver installation), but the pressure sensitivity feature does not work in photoshop. This is quite possibly due to the inability to install elements and the other software from the CD, since they don't have the MAC versions.
* Also it frequently causes photoshop to hang for possibly ~30sec at a time. You do a couple of brushstrokes and then the program just freezes for what seems FOREVER.
* If you decide to unplug the tablet from your computer, something that you NEED to do all the time if you have a laptop, it will only work again upon plugin 1 in 30 times. The rest of the times, the only solution was to RE-install the drivers and reboot twice (because of the permissions problem).
I just got today a bamboo fun from wacom, and it works SO seamlessly. It was more expensive, but I'm sure that the simple bamboo (the non-"fun" version), works equally well, it's just less fancy looking, and it seems to cost more or less the same as this product.
I'm returning the genius. I really consider the mac compatibility false advertisement.
 Genius MousePen November 10, 2008
I bought this as a gift for my adult son whose hobbies are sketching and photography. He said it will be useful both at work and home. Its an amazing tool and I'm thinking about getting one for myself.
This is great October 30, 2008
I bought this for my son becasue he is now into Manga. He loves the product. He loves the fact that it is so slim and i think it is a great prodcut for a wonderful price. I would reccommend this product to anyone.
Works great for the price! October 30, 2008
I wasn't expecting much from such a cheap tablet, but it's much better than smaller, more expensive store bought tablets I've owned. It does what it's supposed to, but you'll have to play with it a bit before you get your settings just right for normal use in Photoshop or whatever you may use it for.
Great product for the money.
 Almost a great deal. October 30, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
So i think the reviews written by everyone else here sums up quite a bit of the fears i had about purchasing this tablet. Basically my biggest issue is it appears the drivers are outdated and don't work well with all the graphics applications i use. Folks who use CS3 report no problems at all with this device. Unfortunately i just purchased CS4 and this tablet has major issues in it (pressure sensitivity not responding randomly after a few minuts, drawing an arc and it draws a strait line or dot of varying opacity). After talking with the folks at Adobe (and getting no response from Genius) i narrowed it down to Genius' out of date drivers (which that's apparently correct).
So the pros\cons layed out by others are pretty accurate. When i got mine everything functioned perfectly, no dead batteries, etc... The tablet itself is a fantastic deal w/ great potential especially for $49.99 (now). The user programmable areas on the sides are great, the quick access menu up top is awesome, and the drawing space and overall feel of using it was great. It did however seem a bit flimsy when placed on the lap (how i like drawing) but on a flat surface (even a book) no worries.
Note that i DID try this with "The GIMP 2.6", Corel Painter X, Blender 2.48 etc... basically all the other software i use, and while those performed /almost/ perfectly 100% Of the time, there were still glitches. You just can't have that while you're in the middle of creating something.
Thankfully Amazon.com is amazing w/ returns because it's already on it's way back. Sad this is the first item i've EVER returned from any online purchase i've made EVER (and i've made a lot). Oh well they almost had a great product, if the drivers were a bit more up to date, this would hands down be a great purchase. I decided to go for a Wacom Bamboo, feel free to venture on over there as i've written a review on my experience thus far.
Hope it helps,
Frank...
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