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by Evan Shamoon on July 14, 2008 at 05:03 PM



Wacom Cintiq 12WX

For art students working with graphics or images, the Wacom Cintiq tablets are a gift from the interface/productivity gods. Essentially, they bring together a super high-quality display with a pressure-sensitive tablet, so that you can directly draw and edit your images on the tablet's screen (rather than looking at your monitor while writing on a screen-less tablet). The feel is incredibly fluid, and adjusts to the finest variations in pen pressure. The 12-inch model is about the size of a laptop, so you can work with it in your lap), but if this is something you're going to be using all the time it's well worth the investment.

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