Wacom Intuos 4: Coming to Malaysia in May

Wacom Intuos 4 was recently announced on the 26th of March 2009. If you missed the announcement you can check it out here. I gave a call to Wacom toll free line enquiring on when it will be here in Malaysia and they told me May but they could not give me an exact date. The only words I am hearing from him is May or Middle of this year.

So if you are planning to get Intuos 3 now you may want to hold off your purchase since it’s just around the corner. Who knows you may be able to get Intuos 3 cheaper then or Intuos 4 at introductory prices. So what is the main difference between the current and the new:

The pen now comes with a pressure sensitive tip which provides you more control and precision. The Intuos 3 pen does not have this. I don’t think the new pressure sensitive pen will work with the older Intuos 3. Pressure sensitivity have also been doubled from 1024 on Intuos3 to 2048 on the Intuos4 thanks to this pen.

Speed ring feature which enables you to control up to four different functions such as zooming, scrolling, brush size, canvas rotation etc.

Left handed? No worries. The intuos 4 allows you to maximize productivity of both hands. By just rotating the table 180 degrees and a single control panel setting change you can adjust the tablet from a right handed configuration to a left handed configuration. How cool is that.

Mouse included. Well it comes with a mouse. Looks cool too.