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A have done some research to compare the technical specs of TRUST/AIPTEK tablet Versus the WACOM INTUOS/INTUOS2 which is much more expensive. The TRUST and AIPTEK are probably the same table but
licensed by different manufacturers. However Trust gives you a 2 year warranty and Aiptek only 1 year.

I have not compared the acctual tablets in real life but only the specs.

Here is what you will find out about the Wacom Intuos 2 A4 tablet on their webpage:

The Wacom Intuos 2

Tablet Dimensions: 456x361x14 mm
Active Area: 304.8 x 240.6 mm
Pressure Levels: 1,024
Accuracy: +/- 0.25 mm
Resolution: 2,540 lpi (100 lpmm)
Reading Height: 10 mm
Max. Data Rate: 200 pps


Here is what you can find out on the Trust and Aiptek webpage about the Trust 1200 and Aiptek 12000U

tablet.


Tablet: 350 x 400 x 12
Active tablet space 12" x 9"
Resolution 3048 lpi
512 pen pressure levels
accuracy: 0.42 mm (overall with pen)
Max. reading height 8 mm (0.32")
Works both in absolute and relative mode
Gross weight: 2 kg
pps: ?

What you wont find out on their pages is the pps (points per second). Thats the number of times per second that the tablet reports your mouse/pen position back to the computer.
So I registered with them and sent an email to both Trust and Aipteks customer support asking what the pps was. First a got an answer from TRUST that the resolution is 3048 lpi. But I already know that so I sent an reply telling them that the resolution is not the same thing as the pps. 2 weeks later I got

this reply from TRUST:
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The pps or report rate of the Trust tablet is 40 per second.

Kind regards,

Farissa Bakhtali
Trust Customer Care
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I have not yet heard anything from Aiptek :/

Now 40 points per second may not sound to much compared to Wacoms 200 pps. But you can test how much it is with your mouse. If you go to the mouse/hardware/advanced settings you can set your mouse to read 40
pps. (The normal rate is 60pps for a mouse) Then you can test this in a drawingprogram. I suggest you
also test something as low as 20pps.

As you can see this does not have much effekt. I for one could not notice any difference.
But when you draw with a pen you would probably move it faster and over a larger area than you usually do with a mouse.
Still I belive that 40pps would be enough to make smooth lines.

Also I used to have a wacom intuos 1 A3 at my previuos work. And from what I can remember it had 512 pressure levels, I might be wrong but I would think that 512 levels is good enough.

So if you can stand having to buy batteries once in a while, the Trust and Aiptek is probably very much value for money.
But then I have not bought my trust yet.

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the battery is also @ the top of the pen = not very well balanced pen..

the thing i love aoubt my wacom stylus is that its about the same weight as BIC biro..

oh and some1 on here has had to hold their Tust Stylus together with some tape or sommat cos it split..

its here ---->> cracked trust stylus

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[Iliya Zilberter]

I've been using an Aiptek 1200U tablet since August, and its been working nicely. You can't draw lineart too well, but that doesnt matter since I dont use visible lineart and if I do, its been drawn with a pencil. Otherwise, its a very precise tablet, its got a tremendous drawing area, and the stylus is actually quite comfortable. Plus, it didnt cost me an arm and a leg so im happy with it.
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