Wacom has thrown a tablet-shaped curveball at digital creatives ready on Apple’s extremely anticipated OLED iPads. The corporate launched the Wacom Movink 13 on Wednesday, its personal OLED-based providing that targets creatives in want of a extremely moveable show drawing pill.
Obtainable now for $750 through the Wacom web store, the Movink contains a full HD 13.3-inch Samsung OLED show that provides it a number of benefits over comparably midrange LED-based tablets. Essentially the most notable is the dearth of a backlight — not solely does that stop light leakage and excess heat, in accordance with Wacom (the latter being a well-known nuisance for show pill customers), but it surely additionally permits the pill to be extra compact.
Wacom says the Movink is the “thinnest and lightest” pen show pill it has ever made, weighing 420 grams (14.8 ounces) with thickness ranging between 4–6.6mm. By comparability, Wacom says it’s 66 p.c thinner and 55 p.c lighter than the comparably sized Wacom One 13 touch. That additionally makes it lighter than the 682-gram (24-ounce) present 12.9-inch iPad Pro model whereas sharing an analogous thickness.
It isn’t blighted by these messy three-in-one cables, both — the Wacom Movink 13 makes use of a single USB-C to USB-C cable for each energy and connectivity. The pill helps Home windows, macOS, ChromeOS, and Android, and a second USB-C port can be out there for added energy if the linked system doesn’t have sufficient juice.
Customers may count on a wider coloration spectrum and deeper blacks, with a distinction ratio of 100,000:1, 100 instances larger than what’s featured on the lately launched Wacom Cintiq Pro 17. The Wacom Movink is validated for Pantone and Pantone SkinTone and offers one hundred pc DCI-P3 and 95 p.c Adobe RGB protection, in accordance with Wacom. The sooner response time for OLED additionally lowers pen latency beneath one millisecond.
Talking of pens, the Movink comes with a devoted model of Wacom’s Professional Pen 3 stylus that contains a slimmer, extra seen nib. This model is unique to the Movink 13, however Wacom says the pill additionally helps “a number of pen applied sciences,” permitting it to work with Wacom’s Professional Pen 2 or third-party choices from Dr. Grip Digital, Lamy, or Staedtler.
That’s it for the free equipment, although — customers preferring to work at an angle might want to buy a separate (and equally skinny) $80 foldable stand. There are additionally solely two customizable buttons constructed into the pill, one on both facet, that can be utilized for issues like toggling contact features on or off. Should you want extra, then you definately’ll must both buy Wacom’s separate $99 ExpressKey Remote or create some on-screen shortcuts.
Given Wacom is the primary drawing pill producer to supply an OLED-based providing, the closest competitor for the Movink 13 will probably be Apple’s long-anticipated OLED iPad Pro, which is predicted to be unveiled on May 7th. Essentially the most notable distinction between the merchandise is that Wacom’s pill must be linked to an exterior system, however at $750 (which is surprisingly low cost for Wacom), it could be considerably extra reasonably priced than Apple’s all-in-one providing.
Until customers are tied to utilizing desktop artistic software program, the one factor that may make it harder to decide on between them could be if Apple introduced a local means to make use of the iPad as a drawing pill on Mac. A lady can solely dream.