“The 12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaway: Day 41 – A Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen and Touch tablet
This contest is closed. Congrats to faithful Macenstein reader Mark.
On the Forty-First Day After Christmas, Macenstein gave to you (or, more accurately, gave you a chance to win…) Bamboo Fun Pen and Touch tablet from Wacom!
Bamboo Fun lets you get hands-on with your creative projects, combining the benefits of Multi-Touch with the comfort and precision of Wacom’s ergonomically-designed pen.
With Multi-Touch, you can navigate, scroll, and work with simple hand gestures. With the tablet’s large touch area, you have more room to navigate than you do with other touch devices like computer trackpads and mobile phones.
Need precision? Pick up the pressure-sensitive pen to draw, sketch, edit photos, and add handwritten elements to your creations. The generous size of Bamboo Fun gives you lots of space for creative freedom, making it simple and comfortable to use.
Bamboo Fun works with your existing computer: desktop or laptop, PC or Mac. Attach it to a standard USB port and set it comfortably by your keyboard. You can even customize your Bamboo Fun experience by assigning your own shortcuts to the four ExpressKeys™.
Available in a stylish silver color, Bamboo Fun will complement your current setup. And it includes valuable additions that make it ideal for your creative projects.
To enter: Boy, it seems these day people can’t get enough of Multi-touch tablets! And speaking of tablets, we’d like to know, What do you think of Apple’s new iPad? Will you buy one? Winners will be picked randomly 7 days later and notified (kind of like in The Ring, only with less killing… we hope). Open to ALL READERS WORLD-WIDE. Good luck, and thanks for reading Macenstein! (Oh, and be sure to enter ALL our “12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaways!)
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I think it’s perfect for so many people…like my wife. So yeah, we’ll grab one eventually.
I think it’s great, and will likely be getting my hands on one. At first blush it looks like something that will really encourage things like comics and event graphic-heavy technical books to move to a more ‘e’ friendly model.
I would take one, if they build in a USB-Port or Card-Reader. That would be awesome to watch fresh taken pics.
Forget e-books. I want mine with (hopfully an iPad vesion of) Reeder app for my RSS feeds. Now that’s my version of a newspaper!
It’s greater than we can imagine – I will buy 2 of them.
One for my parent who reallly don’t understand anything about computers and so desperately want to be a part of their grandchildren´s lives, and one for my family to enjoy in the tv room (tv remote, dictionary, game device, e-mail centre etc…).
It’s going to be great to get rid of the macbook pro in the tv sofa…
hope to get one by the end of the year.
It’s a good product, i thinks but don’t know if i will buy one …
No. I might consider it, if my area had 3G, but living in bumfukt egypt, we’ll never see that shit. So, my iphonizzle is all I need. At home, I have no problem firing up my 17# MBP. Maybe, just maybe, after 2 or 3 iterations of the iPad, then, maybe. I’d rather get a netbook and Hackintosh it.
I won’t buy one until iPad is a Tablet MacBook Pro, with all the connectivity and power I need. I cannot do without Firewire and an Expresscard slot. I may get my work to buy a couple as we currently use iPod Touches for communication and meeting planning.
The iPad will revolutionnise the publishing industry at the equivalent of the revolution the iPod created for music.
I’m waiting for Apple to send me THE e-mail telling me they can get pre-orders !
The iPad is cool, but I do agree with others that Apple could have made it better. I may get one with my tax return.
I think it would be cool to have one, but I don’t have a particular need or use for one at this time. If I buy one, it might be for development.
I like it, but I think I’m going to save my pennies for a MacBook Pro instead.
I go back and fourth on buying one. As of right now I am planning on waiting for the 2nd or 3rd generation.
It looks like it will be useful and will be able to fill a small niche. I’ll probably get one, though I would like to play around with one before, just so I know what I’m getting.
Maybe after the 2nd hardware update…
Having a MBP and a iPhone, I don’t see the point in buying an iPad.
This is going to be the next big thing. The iPad has the potential, and it will be the product that starts the next computer era. In a year from now people will be saying a netbook, what’s a netbook. Apple and the Developers can make the iPad into anything they want it to be.
It’s not too great. I’d get a Modbook before I got an iPad.
My initial reaction was a little disappointed, however that has evolved into a very impressed and optimistic view of what is surely to become a new icon and revolution in devices. Yes, I’ll be getting one for sure, probably more for my wife right now. Just not sure on which model I want. Of course, I NEED the top model with 3G, but not sure what I want . . . . wait, reverse that . . . . maybe 🙂
i’ll wait for the 2nd generation before deciding, i really think they missed the sweet spot on this one. If I wanted an ipod touch, i’d buy a normal sized one. They really needed to have that thing running OSX … it should have been a screen-only Macbook with a couple of REAL ports on it like USB, not just that dock port.
It shows promise, but too limited IMO.
Nice. But I don’t need it 🙂
I’m still waiting for the camera-equipped iPod Touch before I buy, and then I need to get a new laptop – by which point my main work machine will need upgrading. As the iPad can’t replace any of these it will have to live at the bottom of my list – probably forever.
I have an iphone and ipod touch, so no, I won’t be buying an iPad.
Ipad is ok. Still on the fence as to if I’m getting one. Want to play with one first.
Not the revolution I was waiting for, iChat? USB in? I would love to be able to use this for events in the AV industry, but without the ability to get anyone’s content on it on site and quickly edit it to put it up on a projector it falls short of what I was hoping.
What will save it is iWork, (and any other cool apps that will crop up.
Maybe next time, new MBP first I think
Loves it! Iphone is my way of life, and the touch screen might save me from carpal tunnel. Can’t wait to ditch the mouse and wires. Absolute winner.
I’d get one only if it were running a full version of OS X … or maybe once it’s been jailbroken.
Yes. I will get one.
I’ll probably buy an iPad when it has a built-in camera that I can use for videoconferencing and when I can use it to stream movies from Netflix.
Want one. The potential within education is very exciting.
hell yes – it’s going to be fun to use, and probably quite useful, but I’m intrigued with what new apps are going to be developed to make use of all the additional screen space.
I will. But it ill be for my wife. Honest!
I think that the iPad is awesome, what it does is not revolutionary, how it does it is.
i like the design of everything except for the os, get me osX on there and im down for one
The price is right; iPad is definitely on my list of want-to-haves.
love it, but I need to svae up first 🙁 which is too bad, this is the first apple launch I wanted to go to at a store.
Like it alot, but will wait ’till revb
I will definitely get one. A 16GB 3G.
I don’t know if this is the next step, but I want to find out.
it looks like sheer greatness. Paradigm shift.
Yeah, if I get at least a ninety on my final sem exams. Yes, I’m hopeful.
“Meh” with a hint of “Ooo”.
probably will wait for a later version with upgrades maybe including multi-tasking and a camera
when with camera and ichat and skype video
I will be buying an iPad.
I would like to buy one, but I’ll probably wait until the 2nd generation. Maybe.
I’m pretty sold on the iPad waiting till what the UK price is but looks damn sweet.
I will buy one on day one, just like the iphone. It will do wonders when I am at a clients showing them photos.
The lack of flash is the selling point for me. im definitely going to get one
If I had some extra cash to burn, I’d be all over the 64GB model. Maybe next year…