Tablet Review Turcom
Note that I’ve only owned 4 tablets in my life, and this is one of the 2 cheapest. If you’re looking for an affordable tablet, be sure to look more into it, this is just my experiance. There are hundreds I’m sure.
Turcom. $50 USD at the time I bought it, around $43.99 USD now.
Note that I did get a dud at first and had to return it, but the second one worked perfectly. These are cheaper tablets so don’t expect everything to work out all the time.
The most astounding attribute the Turcom had was the PEN SENSITIVITY. I could have a very large brush and still manage to make a very small stroke. I loved the work I produced in the time I had it, all my lines felt very smooth.
On that note, it might be better to use it if you’re an more confident artist with more wrist control, it is sensitive sooo.. Any hesitation in a brush stroke shows up in the brush.
Moving on, I’d like to mention the pen weight. Mine came with a battery inside and it made it the heaviest pen in my collection. But I enjoyed the weight personally, you might not. And speaking of the battery, I will note that I NEVER HAD TO CHANGE THE BATTERY IN IT’S LIFE. The battery life lasted up until I broke the thing (I broke it by constantly letting it fall off the table that lead up to a long crack down the side of the pen, which eventually effected it’s responsiveness by double-clicking all the damn time).
The pen came with a nib in it and the stand it came with had 4 back ups and the nib remover as well, which I think is great. And the booklet says the pen has a button at the end that clicks it on and off. It does not. At some point they changed the pen to always be on so you can’t click it, don’t freak out and think it’s broken like I did.
As you might of noticed before, the tablet itself comes with no extra buttons or... anything, just an LED light which acts like any tablet, just lights up when you touch the surface. The surface area itself is 8 in x 5 in which I find to be pretty standard. The cord to plug it in has been universal with all my tablets so far, which helped with it wore out.
I bought this tablet in 2013 and used it through to 2015 when I finally had to switch to something else because I broke it.
If you are looking for a cheap, simple, and sensitive tablet, I would suggest this one. And you will just have to learn how to use the shortcuts on your keyboard, which never slowed me down, I still do it out of habit.
