“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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If they put OS X on it, I’d buy it. But as it is it’s just a giant ipod touch.
Looks good, but I don’t really have a use for one, nor the money, so no.
Love it….getting one first day it goes on sale.
Like it… probably won’t get it. Maybe the next verison.
Could be better, I don’t think I’ll buy one
I will buy one, but probably the 3rd generation….
If in the future they come out with an iPad with OS X on it, and there’s a mac equivalent to MS OneNote, I would totally get one! Until then, I’ll stick with my MacBook.
It’s awesome and cheap and I would buy one if I have some spare money!
I like it. It’s the perfect device for people without any computer experience. Like older people.
i definitely will buy one, i just think it should have multi tasking and camera!
I’m sorry, but it needs a camera, on the back at a minimum. Hopefully front and back.
the wife has given me the okay, so i think it will replace our aging desktop which only checks email anyway
Would prefer a front camera so I can iChat AV on the go.
But definitely will get one.
Negative. I have no need for one at the moment.. which is unfortunate.
Don’tt really see when or were i would use it over than my iphone or macbook, so nope
I would rather wait until they release a revision or two, to see things ironed out. I was quite disappointed, as were my Apple-store-working-friends…
I love it and plan to get it. But maybe not the first version. Just like the iPhone, it will keep getting better and better.
I might buy one for my wife.
I like it. I’ll buy it.
Perfect for the Hospital and Clinic… and journal reading! So yes!!!
Sweet. I’ll get one.
I like it but it is missing a few essential features. I will likely hold out til the 2nd generation
I’d say that it’s a form factor where it is like a Kindle where you can actually do things with it, but people won’t recognize it as an eBook reader and therefore it can’t compete with it. I also like it how companies like Sony first bash the iPad for having a useless form factor, but then they decide to make a tablet themselves.
I have no plans to get an iPad, but I’ll consider it if tethering is made possible (hacks or not).
I see it like everyone else: a giant iPod touch with a 3G antenna, and lots of wasted screen estate.
I don’t know what to think of it yet. The concept is really amazing, but again a closed OS with no easy way to use your “own” apps? However, the awesome way to get web-access with it is kinda cool. I might get one, but not at launch and not anytime soon after the launch.
It’s missing several features, most importantly, a webcam. No I will not be buying one
The first thing I thought while watching the Stevenote was “where’s my credit card”. The second thought was “no, you don’t need it, you have enough apple gear already”. But then I kicked myself and tried to order one. Well… somehow I didn’t succeed…
It’s is nice, but not very portable, so for portability, I’ll keep iphone. And around the house, my macbook pro is all I need, much more versatile.
I know that it doesn’t change the world, and not an “instant get” for most people, but I most definitaly will buy a 3G one as soon as it is available here in Hungary…
I like the iPad and could use one (on the road a lot) but I will wait for the next generation or price drop. Right now I want to get a MacBook Pro for my wife. 😀
I wish it had come out about a year ago when I bought a MacBook for my wife. The iPad would have fit her needs quite nicely, and also fit my need to buy new and cool gadgets!
I already have a iPad nano
I’ll buy gen 2 as soon as it comes out, just like I did with the iPhone.
I think iPad is a fascinating gadget, but no multitasking without jailbreak is still a problem. I would buy one for sure, but maybe only the 499 model.
No, I won’t be getting an iPad. If it doesn’t run a C compiler, it’s nothing to me.
I love it but will probably sit on the sidelines a while. Might make a nice Christmas present to myself.
not worth the asking price, but i am intrigued by the ipad. might take some time for me to catch on though.
I hated it when I first read about it during a live blog of it’s announcement. After watching the whole Keynote on my Apple TV, I really want one now. I’m not sure if I’ll get one right away, but I’ll for sure be getting a second gen. one in a years time.
I’m not really interested in them, not this revision, anyways, but really hope that my mom gets herself one. She’d love it.
On one hand, it is perfect for people that work with written word: journalists, bloggers, writers, translators, editors, etc. The combo of iWork, iBooks and book-format Safari is incredible.
On the other hand, I still think e-ink is better for ebooks.
I may buy one, if it is fiscally convenient at the end of the year.
I think its awesome! I will definitely buy one. I read so much, it will be worth buying one.
The iPad isn’t quite compelling enough for me. Maybe 2ndGen will offer more that will put me over the edge but have to say no for now.
Also, too many questions remain about what it can do exactly. Is that stupid iPod cable the only way it can talk to my mac? What if I want to grab a movie from my iMac over wifi or BT, do I really have to sync it?
Perhaps if I were into eBooks more, but I’m not. I read my news on my desktop at the office and I have an iPod touch for everything else.
I probably won’t buy one unless I could get all my textbooks on it for a really decent price. I am looking forward to it being the future of computing.
I won’t buy one
Love it. Will buy one.
I was pretty disappointed to be honest. Probably won’t get it.
I think the iPad is being underestimated. I will probably end up buying one for the wife.
It’s alright, but I won’t be buying it without a camera, or without Flash enabled in the browser. A full browsing experience isn’t “full” without it..
Not unless it has a Camera, and SMS/MMS. Oh yea, and a less shittier network….
I think it will be very interesting to see how sales go once released. I think that the negative hype and publicity is overkill and that once people can touch and hold the device they will understand its value, a simple secondary computer for email and browsing the internet. It does about as much as most people can get done on a netbook but looks fun to use. I will probably wait for the 2nd generation device before buying…