brooket43•19h agoMost Upvoted

Bought a $150 digital art tablet that barely worked out of the box

So I saw this budget tablet on sale for $150 last month and thought it'd be a steal for practicing digital painting. Got it home, hooked it up, and the pen pressure was all over the place - like pushing hard barely made a line. Spent 3 hours messing with drivers and settings, still couldn't get consistent strokes. Ended up returning it and losing $20 on restocking fees. Has anyone else tried a cheap tablet and found it more trouble than it's worth?

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hannah_wells18h ago

Used to think the expensive ones were overpriced until I tried a cheap display tablet myself. Honestly, it completely changed my mind after wasting hours tweaking settings that never quite worked right. Now I'd rather save up longer than deal with that headache again.

david_reed2218h ago

Yeah @hannah_wells hit it right on. I got a $120 tablet once and the pen would literally skip across the screen like it had a mind of its own. The driver software was a total nightmare too, kept crashing every 10 minutes. Sometimes cheap is just cheap.

jordan_hill16h ago

Yeah "cheap is just cheap" is the perfect way to put it. I fell for the same trap with a $100 tablet and the pen would skip around like crazy, but the worst part was the lag. Every time I tried to draw a line it would show up a split second later, drove me nuts. Plus the screen had this weird grainy texture that made everything look fuzzy. I learned my lesson too, now I just save up and buy something decent from the start.