The Coast16 is it the Best for LOW Budget?
I've been working and traveling with the coast16 for about a month now and so far except for a small struggle at the installation (drivers), it does the job pretty well. Even if it's quite thin, (14.5mm thick and almost 16Inch) the coast16 does not fit in all backpack so be ready to spend a few extra pounds to get yourself a laptop bag if you don't have one already. The screen is ok, 1920/1080(HD) with a matt and smooth finish giving a quite nice feeling when drawing, 8192 pressure level, 72% sRGB and only 50% aRGB to compare the Wacom Cintiq Pro 16 (at around 1.800£) got 94%aRGB, not the best but for the price you can't really complaint. The screen got also a bit of parallax giving a distance of 2-3mm between the pen and the cursor, just so you know this happens for every cheap tablet only tablet like Wacom (meaning expensive) don't have any parallax but again we are on a low budget here and you will get quite used to it. The tablet got 8 Buttons entirely customizable which is good but I wish for a future update to have buttons customizable for each software. Let's talk now about the pen Finally, we have here a pen battery FREE! No need to charge it anymore instead now we have a button on a top to use as an eraser (photoshop user) the pen is light and really comfortable and you get an extra button on a side (some people are used to have 2 buttons) And now the Driver, well cleary old gen even if you get everything you need to customize for your tablet the software clearly need some update by example if you are left-handed (like me) you have to custom upside down each button which took me about 10 min instead of 5 and again you cannot custom your button for each software but only in general, it doesn't cost anything to program the buttons for each software (I'm talking to you PARBLO!) In the end, The Coast16 got everything you need it's well designed functional robust with a nice feeling when you touch it and almost current gen... The coast 16 will please every low budget artist Illustrator or 3D modeler. Pro +Really Cheap +8button customizable +thin and transportable Con -not really practical for left-handed -The driver need to be updated -screen color a bit washed