Review on The Wacom INTUOS4/CINTIQ21 Grip Pen: Enhance Your Digital Artistic Experience by Harel Leary

Sure, 2048 levels of sensitivity is a nice gimmick, but with 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity you can't really tell. Combine that with a $70 price tag for a tablet pen that's over 2 generations old and gives you a headache in your back. The Wacom Intuos 4 is a tablet that has had many issues, but the review is about foam, not a tablet. In most cases you are reading this because your pen, like many others, broke in half while trying to clean it. The glue they use to hold the pieces together is /really cheap/, so if you rub this pin on a shirt, fabric, pant leg, or whatever to clean, you can easily tear the pin in half. This is the third pen since I bought my Intuos 4, which I bought when the tablet first launched in 2009. The tablet has served me well and despite some dying pixels on the glowing keys, it still works. Handles, however, a nightmare. I love the feel of this pen, but it attracts all the dirt, all the dust, all the gunk from your hands, everything. and because it's so delicate that you can't drop it on a tile or wood floor or clean it without being overly sensitive. I'll say this, I've been using my tablet every day since 2010 for 10-15 hours a day. Art is my profession, so I need a hardworking tablet. This pen and tablet is a good workhorse, but it's one of those ones that looks beautiful out of the box but can't handle age at the end of the day.