So on my forever hunt for cheap but really good tablets I found parblo. An all I have to say..is Wow.
Price: I got mine through a bid on ebay for $49.99 USD and I think I was just lucky no one else was bidding on the item.. I have seen them for $57 -$70 + but I think it depends on the seller cause I could also find a lot for what I bought it for plus free shipping. It just takes some hunting. I would highly suggest aliexpress or ebay for the price I got it for.
Here is the seller I got it from [link] (ebay) They were super fast with delivery and amazing to work with transaction wise!
Pros: Large active drawing space (
10x6 ), sleek/thin/ light compact over all design,
2048 level pressure sensitive drawing pen
, 8 user-defined shortcuts, rechargeable pen, legit paper like surface and for open source users 100% compatible with gimp, krita and mypaint.
Cons: My only issue with this is that I had to hunt for the drivers by finding the model number of my tablet which led me to a Russian site. Which lemme tell you was a mess. I don’t speak Russian but lucked out and saw the picture of my tablet, its name then a strange model number (fyi:
Ugee M708). Which I googled and it led me to the original company of the drivers which is in Chinese @_@;;; .So that was a big run around.
The driver cd that comes with the tablet is rubbish and does nothing so don’t even bother installing that. To save time I downloaded the drivers for you and you can download it here [link](safe link/mega uploads)
If they ever have updates, here is the site with all the drivers [link]
personal feel- I love the control when drawing.
Parble A610
has to be my fave tablet yet. I have worked with wacom(graphire 4/bamboo fun), huion( H610), then monoprice(10x6.25 w hot keys/ 10x6.25 with 2048 lvls)
Wacom being my least fave and most expensive, huion having a texture surface that is a bit too glass like but good for fast painting and lovely pressure sensitivity, and monoprice with a lovely paper texture but a bit too big space wise for me.
Parble A610 has a surface texture that feels like you are just drawing on a sketch book. An that to me is amazing. Among other things stated above. An I’m sure a lot more as I use it.
A fast doodle I did in mypaint and it was like I was doodling on a paper sketch pad u///u
Hope this helped anyone looking for an affordable tablet /o/
