“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’ll buy one, but I’ll wait for one of the upcoming generations, with more hardware features 😉
i wanna one, but I wait till Summer
Yeah I’ll get one
I hated it…then read some intelligent thoughts on the possibilities. I’m a changed man, but will still wait ’til v3 when it’s hitting its stride.
I like the idea of it, but the way they made it as is now, like the very first iPhone if not worse it seems shallow since they will give it numerous upgrades which can already be done to siphon out more money.
I think the iPad is great and will be awesome a generation or two from now. I am planning on getting one as soon as I can test one out in the store.
I generally like the iPad even with it’s shortcomings and will probably get one to play around with when it comes out.
I want to actually hold one before i decide. It definitely wasn’t what I was hoping for; what I really want is a MacBook Air cut in half that is touch screen. In my dreams, I know…
I’m just thinking what to buy first, an iPhone or an iPad.
Well, I’d love to win 🙂 , and speaking of winning, when I was 10 I won a 101 dead cat uses book for drawing the best cartoon of a dead cat. Since then, not much else…..
I totally had no interest in it, then slowly managed to convince myself of how useful it’d be after discussing why it wasn’t so great with friends.
I just went “oh wait, that is actually pretty cool”. Plus I hate Flash more than the Grinch hates Christmas, so I’m happy about that. If it’s as fast as the reports say I’m alright without multi-tasking
the iPad will bring a new wave of applications and a new “gold rush” (as many reviewers have stated). That said, I will likely wait a hardware generation before taking the plunge, but “might” get the $499 wifi only one to play with… Its missing some key features for me though: camera (for video conferencing), multi-tasking.
iPad? iPad!?! I don’t need no stinkin’ iPad!!!
I think the iPad looks really cool. I’d buy one if I had the $$$…
I think a lot of people in the mainstream media are over looking what it will be able to do and just making guesses at this point. I think it will be the start of something awesome in every sector.
Also Apple shocked everyone with it’s starting price point.
I’m looking forward to iBooks!
It’s pretty cool, but it’s a little more than I can afford right now. 🙂
It’s pretty great. I want!
big disappointment for me, so: no.
I love it. AND, the more I think about it, the more I love it. Each day closer to launch gets more and more exciting for me. I will definitely be buying one. As far as I am concerned, Apple has done it again!
iPad….no go for me. Now give me a “MacBook Touch” and I’m all over that like white on rice!
I think, that I could use it on lots of way, so if I will have the money, I will buy one.
Boo
No.
I’d probably get one when the days of my MBP are over. I can see an iMac + ipad replacing my current setup, as the ipad is perfectly capable of the tasks I need on the go. For things like music and photography I’d rather use a poweful desktop system.
nope…waiting for version 2.x
Not exactly what I expected from Apple’s tables but after few days after Apple event it is not so bad either. Buy? Maybe later, when the price little fall as a ebook reader, or when it will have more functionality.
ipad… under construction. maybe the next version will work out some of the kinks…
oh most defiantly.
I’m waiting for the 2nd generation
it lacks functionality and occupies a lot of space, so i doubt it.
I doubt I will buy one, but I can really see how it would be nice to leave around the living room for quick access to apps and media (i do not own an iPhone or iPod Touch).
I want my iPad so I can sell apps and make at least as much as I paid for it.
If I do buy one it’ll be the second or third generation. There’s some promising stuff in the patents Apple’s filed for and I’m curious to see if they’ll be included in future releases.
I am pretty sure I will grab one – not necessarily for me alone but to share with my fiance. I think that for the type of web browsing and music playing we do it will be great around the house.
It’s an interesting product, probably very useful for some people, but I have a Mac Pro, a MacBook, and an iPhone I just don’t see the hole it needs to fill for me.
Well If I have the money lying around, I’ll most likely get one. I like the 3G plan prices, and iWork looks fantastic!
iPad is an interesting concept, but I don’t think I will buy one. This first generation is still too crude.
Absolutely THE PRODUCT to further untether me from my laptop. With my iPhone, I find myself walking away from my computer at 5 PM and not going back to it until the next Morning. But I still have the need to read news and make queries when I’m away from my desk and the iPad will fill that niche quite easily. It also will get rid of all my bookcases over time, too.
My father who is 86 already wants one instead of my hand-me down laptops!
Needs camera. Was hoping it was a little more MacBook. Probably not buying one.
Currently, i own an iPhone and a first gen MacBook. since it is four years old, I wanted to buy a new one.
as my usual use of the computer is surfing, reading lecture notes and maybe writing (but not as much), I think I’ll buy an iPad instead.
It’s cheaper as every other NetBook, but offers much more comfort.
It’s nice, but everyone expected a lot lot more. So therefore I shall not buy one. Though I said this when iPhone Gen1 came out and then 3 days later wham I was at the Apple store giving my credit card to a seller 😀
Yeah, I probably will.
Not yet…Maybe the next iPad..!
It would be nice if it would work more like Wacom tablet and I could use Photoshop on it. But now, it’s fun, but I don’t need it so much to buy it.
I’m thinking I might.
while the iPad is impressive and opens up new possibles my main problem with them is the small memory size lack of camera and in ability to dock it in landscape
all in all I’ll get one BUT not this generation of it
I will buy an iPad. It’s the next step on getting my wife off of Windows. She already loves the iPod touch.
At first glance the iPad just looks like a bit iPod Touch to me, but I do feel it has potential to evolve into something more.
I was very impressed with Brushes on the iPad, it happens to be my favorite app on my iPhone. (My website has some of my iPhone paintings.) If I end-up buying one it will likely primarily be for use with art apps. I’m going to wait and see what iPad exclusive apps come-out for it before I buy.
I think it’s pretty awesome and I am definitely going to buy one.
I recently got a Macbook Pro, so I won’t be buying any computer stuff for quite a while. However, perhaps in a few years, the next laptop would be an iPad instead. They need to bring the iLife suite to it as well IMO.
Since it’s not on the market yet, and almost no software that takes advantage of the form factor, it’s going to be hard to tell, if an iPad would be a better addition to my computing environment, or a MacBook Air (of which I hope it will not be given up upon).