XPPen Deco 01 V2 Drawing Tablet 10×6.25 Inch Graphics Tablet Digital Drawing Tablet for Chromebook with Battery-Free Stylus and 8 Shortcut Keys (8192 Levels Pressure)

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Raymond Bryant

Does what it is made to do… But it is BIG

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2023

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I know, I know, I should have looked at the dimensions closer…. But overall the product is great, it is very responsive and makes photo editing and manipulating a breeze. If I went back to repurchase I would definitely go with a smaller tablet. I use the software to essentially only use the upper left hand corner anyways which works perfect. All of the quick buttons and customizations available make this by far one of the best bang for your buck tablets available.

Again, my only warning is if you are looking for something convenient for throwing in a backpack on the go this may not be the size you want. Put it like this, if you are on a plane and pull this thing out to use it, you may need to very politely ask the person seated next to you to pull down their tray table so you can span it across from yours.

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Kay.P.

Great Tablet for Alternative Mouse Use, But Requires Some Adaptation

Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2023

Size: MediumStyle: wirelessVerified Purchase

I recently purchased the XPPen Deco mini7W Graphic Tablet to use as an alternative mouse for my work computer due to hand pain caused by the conventional-style mouse. While it hasn’t completely replaced my traditional mouse, it has proven to be a helpful tool in managing my discomfort. Here are my thoughts on this wireless drawing tablet:

Pros:

Ergonomic Design: The XPPen Deco mini7W has a sleek and compact design that fits comfortably in my hand. Its lightweight construction allows for easy maneuverability, reducing strain on my wrist and fingers.
Pressure Sensitivity: The tablet’s pressure sensitivity is excellent, making it great for artistic endeavors or precision tasks that require different levels of control.
Customizable Buttons: The tablet features programmable buttons that can be assigned to various shortcuts, providing quick access to frequently used functions. This feature enhances efficiency and reduces the need to reach for the keyboard.
Wireless Connectivity: The wireless functionality of this tablet is a convenient feature, eliminating the hassle of cords and allowing for greater freedom of movement.
Cons:

Learning Curve: Transitioning from a conventional mouse to a drawing tablet requires some adjustment. It took me a while to get accustomed to the tablet’s touch-sensitive surface and hand-eye coordination. However, with patience and practice, I was able to improve my control over time.
Limited Mouse Functionality: While the XPPen Deco mini7W serves as a decent alternative mouse, it lacks the full range of features that a traditional mouse offers. This limitation may require the use of a conventional mouse alongside the tablet for certain tasks.
Battery Life: The battery life could be better. Although it lasts for a reasonable amount of time, I find myself needing to recharge it more frequently than expected.
Overall, the XPPen Deco mini7W Graphic Tablet is a solid option for those seeking an alternative mouse due to hand pain. While there is a learning curve and some limitations in terms of mouse functionality, the tablet’s ergonomic design, pressure sensitivity, and wireless connectivity make it a valuable addition to my workstation. I recommend using it in conjunction with a traditional mouse to handle tasks that are better suited for a conventional input device. With some adaptation, this tablet has become an essential tool for alleviating my hand pain during prolonged computer use.

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molly

Affordable, durable, great usability

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2023

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I bought a used $40 XP pen tablet and it’s been very good so far. I don’t use it all the time, but when I do, it works pretty good.
One star missing because I’ve experience a lot of connection issues (with the wire). Can’t tell if it’s the wire, or driver or tablet, but it randomly disconnects about 1/6 of the time that I use it.
Otherwise, durable nibs on pen, wire can be messy, pressure sensitivity is great, option of left handers (turns upside down so buttons aren’t in way), hot keys on pen and tablet (don’t use very often bc my nondom hand is on keyboard, very lightweight, nice pen holder, easy- user friendly interface program.
If you’re serious about long-term drawing, would suggest investing in a better tablet (I’m also looking for a new one).
If you’re new and want to experiment with digital drawing and you’re on a budget, perfect choice.
If you’re intermediate, still probably invest in a wacom tablet instead.
But still, I’m happy with my purchase.

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Girish Chandra

My goodbye to the top drawing tablets’ brand forever!

Reviewed in India on April 2, 2018

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Just like anyone, I was a bit hesitant to purchase this drawing tablet but I was totally stunned after laying my hands on it. I will tell you why.
I previously owned an Intuos art medium(2015) and this review will be a comparison between the both because I believe that most people who want to purchase this tablet will either be beginners or the people who want to try a drawing tablet for the first time in their life, So they will try to get a beginner’s range Intuos or other alternatives like this. Yes, Wac** brand has better drivers and customer support but to be honest recently they have been overpricing their product line with unexciting generation upgrades and saving their best features only for the pro line tablets which are so expensive.Their recently released 2018 beginner range tablets have worst nib wear as per many reviews, suppose for a person like me who works 6-8 hours continuously on digital drawing that’s a really bad thing. I can’t keep replacing my nibs for every four weeks that’s ridiculous so I thought of giving XP Pen a try after reading good reviews about ‘Deco 01’.

Best things about the tablet:

1- Tablet surface is smooth and scratch resistant. I didn’t see any nib wear or nib marks on the tablet though I’ve worked for many hours till now. So I can assure the nibs won’t wear quickly. They can last for an year as per my guess. Oh and there are like nine of them provided! When I said tablet surface is smooth, to elaborate it more it was like using a smooth wax colour pencil on paper it’s smooth but not too much. Surface smoothness is almost the same as my old Intuos art medium.

2- Active area size is rectangular and perfect for modern monitors. It’s ideal for one regular led monitor upto 30 inches size or two small montiors upto 13 inch each or one 18:9 to 21:9 flat/curved monitor. It has custom active area adjustment btw.

3 – Express keys have a perfect feel to them and are just enough. Neither too many nor too less. I don’t feel the absence of a radial dial, these are already perfect.

4- Decent drivers. Yes there’s ‘Enable Windows Ink’ check box don’t worry about not having that. Pressure curve works perfectly.

5- No hover lag.While my old tablet had hover height of 7mm this one has 10mm and I can clearly see the difference.

6- Lines were sharp and clear even when canvas is zoomed out(due to 5080 lpi resolution), pressure sensitivity was just great at a price that is just 4 times lesser than Int**** Pr* Med*** (8192 levels). No lag whatsoever because of high report rate (266 rps). I can notice huge difference upon my old tablet.

7- Works best with Photoshop (If you face pressure sensitivity disable windows ink in driver interface and modify PSUserconfig.txt file in Photoshop settings folder). Also works well with Krita, Clip studio paint etc.

8- I didn’t expect pen holder at this price point it was a cute little surprise(out of many other surprises). It can hold the pen both vertically horizontally. Pen holder is heavy and doesn’t feel like some cheap plastic.

9 -Pen has a very good triangular grip. It’s lightweight though.

10- Type C cord doesn’t get into the way while you’re working. I had very much problem while using express keys on my old Intuos tablet. I just can’t simply use them because of their placement position and the cable was annoying. But this tablet solved those issues for me.

11- Tablet felt 1 time lighter than my old tablet.The artist glove was very useful. I may even use it for my Ipad pro too.

Cons:
1- Pen doesn’t have eraser

2- Only If there was pen tilt and rotation option available on Wa*** alternatives like Xp pen I’m afraid I’ll stop using Wa*** products forever. There’s no pen tilt or rotation on this tablet

3 – No touch available. My old tablet had touch option but I rarely used it. Touch is not beneficial on drawing tablets, atleast for me.

4- No bundled software. Bundled software like ‘Clip studio paint’ or ‘Corel painter essentials’ would cost you around 3k rupees but you also have zero cost alternatives like Krita’.
And I forgot to mention something in the review- The shortcuts assigned to pen buttons are common towards all programs not specific to individual programs.That might be a con for multitaskers.
I’ve bought it for 7500/-
Final note – Being so accurate,seamless and fast it’s a marvellous drawing tablet at this price point. Beginners can blindly go for this and I recommend professionals to try this tablet you will definitely love it to have as your secondary tablet, or perhaps take up your primary tablet’s position. It’s that good trust me!
I will soon update this review after a month with few photos of the tablet and my artworks which I’m gonna paint with it as well.
25th May update – I had an incompatibility between tablet driver and windows 10 from the past few days but a recent windows 10 update fixed the issue. Now the tablet works like a charm. Super happy!

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Kannan K

Costly But worth it compared to other tablets.

Reviewed in India on December 3, 2019

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I’m a beginner in digital illustration. I Bought this pen tablet for digital drawing and logo designing. First i was thinking to Buy Wacom One tablet. But it’s nothing with but a tablet and a pen. This XP Pen Deco01 Version 02 comes with all you need as a graphic designer.

I was very surprised the packaging and it’s items. Didn’t expect such a nice package and tools with this one. The size of this tablet is more than enough for drawing and it’s very spacious. It also includes a texture Mat sheet over the whole tablet area and feels like a paper while using the tablet. A pen stand (with replaceable nibs) is provided for holding your pen. It’s good but could have been better. It won’t hold the pen firmly. Just a little vibration in your drawing table will make the pen fall out of the stand (In both postures vertically and horizontally). The pen stand is sturdy and feels good but it won’t hold the pen firmly. And extra bonus comes with this product is 2 finger Hand Glove for drawing. it’s good.

Now About the Performance of the Tablet:

I used this tablet with Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe Photoshop CS6, Autodesk Sketchbook pro, Media Bang and paint. It seems to work well with all softwares except Photoshop. When you paint an area the process becomes very slow and you’ve to wait till the whole process to complete. sometimes my laptop (with 8 GB RAM and i5 8th Gen Processor) hangs and i’ve to call Task Manager to close Photoshop. Little bit frustrating with Photoshop. It’s won’t Sync when you make a big process in Photoshop. You have to wait till the your process gets completed. But with other softwares it works like a charm. You’ll get used to using this pen instead of mouse. Sometimes i’m not even touching my mouse to use windows and even to type i can input texts by scribble writing. windows 10 seamlessly understands your scribble hand writing and converts it to texts.

The buttons in the tablet work fine. But it would have been awesome to customize the buttons to your preference.

And Finally compared to other pen tables this will be a complete package for beginners within this price range. I’ve added some illustrations created with Adobe Illustrator and Sketchbook Pro.

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synicalx1

Unbelievable value

Reviewed in Australia on June 26, 2023

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Having used Wacom products for years, I’ve been blown away by the value of this tablet.

Big drawing area, really comfy pen (with a holder!), and software that even works on Linux! Detachable USB cable also means its nice and easy to store away neatly if you don’t use it all the time.

Ramakrishna

Overall best tablet to use

Reviewed in India on October 12, 2023

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To be really honest, this is my first drawing tablet and here are my opinions:
It is really easy to use like plug and play for Windows. But for mac, you need to download the drivers from the website.
it is really welcoming and comes with a glove, and extra nibs which makes me sorted for at least 3 years.
Really go for it if you are a beginner and want to explore digital art

Abba

Muito bom, com um preço muito acessível

Reviewed in Brazil on November 24, 2022

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O pacote veio muito bem embalado, com tudo descrito e organizado dentro da caixa. Por ser a minha primeira vez utilizando um dos produtos da XP-Pen, a instalação e configuração do dispositivo demorou um pouco, mas já me acostumei. Decidi usar a capa que o produto vem para o tablet pq achei a superfície mt fácil de riscar e só fazendo alguns testes eu ouvia ruídos que poderiam riscá-lo com facilidade.

Porém, eu percebi que não só as configurações são um pouco limitadas comparadas à minha experiência com os drivers da wacom, mas também as pontas da caneta desgastam com facilidade, o que me chocou um pouco por testá-lo raramente em questões de dias e já ver a ponta da caneta beeem desgastada pro meu gosto.
Sobre as pressões, tenho preferência a níveis de pressões mais altos, então achei q fosse uma boa escolha, porém eu percebi que o tablet falha um pouco (não sei se é por conta da capa que dificulta um tico), no sentido de tentar fazer uma pressão mínima, muito baixa e o tablet não conseguir detectar. Então quando há o costume de usar brushes de tamanho excessivo pra não só pintar áreas grandes, mas também conseguir pintar áreas mínimas por conta da pressão, aqui você vai encontrar dificuldade fazendo isso para pintar detalhes. Parece reclamação vazia, pois obviamente com um brush de tamanho muito grande não vai conseguir pintar áreas muito pequenas, mas com outros tablets eu conseguia esse feitio através das pressões. Também é difícil fazer pontos, por incrível que pareça kk. Isso tudo aconteceu mesmo eu tendo o costume de usar pressões mais baixas para evitar pressionar minha mão fortemente na superfície.

Tenho ele faz mais de três semanas e sim, ele é muito bom, confortável, preferi não usar a luva, mas ainda assim foi uma boa escolha de compra. Até agora eu gastei duas pontas, pretendo ver até onde eu consigo gastar com uma (tá explicado porque vem tanta ponta, eles sabem que gastam bastante). Minhas únicas reclamações são quanto à pressão e as pontas, acho que deveria ser um pouco mais completo os drivers, tendo distância entre caneta e tablet e uma configuração mais completa sobre monitor, pois me irrita eu configurar um botão pra mudar entre dois monitores e eu precisar apertar mais de uma vez pois ele detecta a junção dos dois. Mas nada que eu não acostume, claro, são os drivers, não o produto em si.

Por fim, os botões de atalho são algo que eu uso esporadicamente, não tenho mta frequência de uso, mas as vezes aperto aqui e ali pra tentar manter o uso um pouco mais frequente.

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