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Wacom Intuos 3

The Wacom Intuos 3 tablet is perhaps the widest known tablet in the Wacom tablet lineup. Wacom is one of the best makers of tablets, if not the best which they certainly prove with the Intuos lineup.

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Apple Aluminium Keyboard

With the release of the previous generation, aluminium iMacs, Apple released a new keyboard. Having just bought a keyboard before that, I was very hesitant to upgrade to this new slim model, with keys like in the Apple laptops. There is however, a time and place for everything and after just recently upgrading to a MacBook Pro, I thought the time couldn’t be better to get myself a matching aluminium keyboard, instead of the old white one.

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Brenthaven ProLite III 17″

As with a lot of people I chose bags very carefully. Granted I have far to many that are just lying around, but in the end I always end up using them a lot of times in situations I didn’t first imagine them in. With that being said, this is one of my bags that I always use when carrying my computer with me.

The Brenthaven ProLite III 17” is really a brilliant bag I must say. Although I don’t have a 17” laptop, I wanted the larger size to be able to carry my Wacom tablet with me and it does fit perfectly into the 17” bag. The bag is really well planned, especially for an Apple laptop. There are specially designed pouches even for your power cord. You have a super padded laptop compartment where, after seeing the bag in person, actually would trust that it’d handle a drop with no problems. There is also a big, divided document compartment.

The exterior of the bag is equally thought out. You have two comfortable handles for carrying it, as well as a strap with a padded part, for your shoulder. If you travel a lot, you may also like that you can hook it on any type of rolling case as this bag has a simple yet effective strap for that too.

Coming to a conclusion here, I really do like this bag and I think it does great and performs great. It’s not the kind of bag I regret the purchase of at all. From me, it gets full marks.

Wacom Bamboo

The Wacom Bamboo Tablet is a compact and small A6 tablet that is made by the popular Wacom company that is famous for their high-quality tablets and it is perfect if you are just getting into the world of tablets, if you are on a limited budget or if you want a portable travel tablet.

The Bamboo makes it easy to get into tablets and it also looks good at the desk as well in a nice matte black finish. The pen is pretty comfortable although if you have used one of the Intous pens you will not find the grip as good as the pen grip is much smaller.

It has got four buttons that are programable to any keystroke or action however it is a downer that they didn’t make the option to program the buttons depending on the application, so that you could have had different keystrokes programmed depending on the application you have open!

In the end the Wacom Bamboo is a nice tablet that is easy to use and will probably suit most users that won’t need a larger size. It works well even when a widescreen screen is mapped to it despite it being in the 4:3 aspect ratio. I’d recommend this tablet to anyone that is either getting into tablets/are on a tight budget or need a compact travel tablet. Once you enter the world of tablets, you won’t be going back to the mouse.

Eizo FlexScan S221W

 The Eizo FlexScan S221W is a 22 inch, widescreen model of the low-line Eizo screens and that is something you should know from the start that it isn’t their high-end series. However Eizo has done an incredible job on this model to get a great screen for the money and it works wonderfully for design and general computer tasks alike.

The screen features the popular 22-wide resolution of 1680×1050 and it works well for design although it sometimes can be just a tad too small because you cannot fit two windows next to eachother but rather a much larger instead however once you are working with Photoshop or other applications like it, you will begin to see the beauty of the larger screen space. It’s also got a pivot function that lets you tilt the screen to become a more document suited screen for when you are writing or doing word processing.

The graphical quality of the screen is remarkably well for a screen in its priceclass and you’ll be really happy with it for most work. It obviously doesn’t render as good in colour management as the better screens would but it is certinaly enough to keep you happy for most work.

You get the advantage of built in speakers on the screen but unless you are only planning on playing up computer sounds you should be fine, but don’t expect any good quality music sound or even podcasts from it. Another good feature is the two-port USB hub that will be USB powered which is all in all pretty good.

If you sum up the quality with the prize you’ll start to see that you are not sacrificing a whole lot for the price of the screen but rather get a whole lot instead! I don’t see any major disadvantages on the display and I’d not hesitate a moment to recommend it to someone!