Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The 16" basic model is really all you need if you're a professional digital illustrator or even entry level hobbyist. THE GOOD: Firstly we can all agree the price is the best thing about this. For the first time Wacom made an entry level product to an otherwise premium line of drawing tablets. That's great on the wallet and also the mind if you travel a lot with it unlike when I carried around the $2.7k Wacom Mobile Studio Pro 16" and nearly had a heart attack every time my laptop bag took a fall. I'm not saying it's disposable but you might feel more confident using it as naturally as you'd throw around a sketchbook for what that's worth. It's very lightweight. For once Wacom did a good job consolidating the cords to one main cord from the device which branches into three (Power, USB, HDMI) The power brick isn't too hefty. This paired with a laptop and it's power brick will take up a whole carrying case. I use this on the couch at home and a mere single cord coming out of the back is hardly noticeable. I LOVE that it has two lil legs that pop out propping the Cintiq at the perfect angle. I can't complain enough about trying to find a good stand for the Wacom Mobile Studio Pro. I have a heavy hand and lean into the Cintiq pretty hard and these legs are built to withstand it. Previous Cintiqs have had horrible bezel, understandably partly due to shortcut buttons on the sides but come on. The basic Cintiq 16" model doesn't have any and therefore the bezel is bearable, this doesn't feel clunky carrying it around with a laptop or sitting on my desk. I can even prop it up and slide it into the bookshelf when I'm not using it to save space. THE MEH: As mentioned before, there are no shortcut buttons. I'd personally list that as a pro but some of y'all have grown dependent on them. I have been using custom macro pads and the Wacom Express Key instead for some time so for me it was a great trade off; no buttons, small form factor. Others might disagree. Some would also argue that the screen resolution is a downgrade. I'm used to my Cintiq 22HD so having two devices both at 1920x1080 made it easy to switch between the two. Otherwise I would go from the 22HD to the Wacom Mobile Studio Pro 16" which had some stupid crazy resolution and it messed me up for a couple reasons. I do fine line inking at 100% zoom in Photoshop which looks totally different on higher resolutions. Also the Photoshop UI, menu placement and text size will change depending on resolution. Personally I don't care but if your work consists of editing high resolution photography/painting with a wider color gamut, then reconsider the higher models. THE UGLY: Nothing so far. This is honestly the best Cintiq I've owned. You wanna talk cons? Before this I was an early adopter of Wacom's Companion, their first all-in-one device, and although it failed me on a few levels I figured it was only to be expected from Wacom's first gen tech. Boy was I wrong, after I sat out the Companion 2 and splurged for the unforgivably awful Wacom Mobile Studio Pro 16" it became clear Wacom lost their damn minds. Mistakes were made. BUT these were used as MOBILE digital drawing devices. An important distinction when comparing them to this Cintiq 16" simply as a drawing tablet tethered to a PC. I still use my Cintiq 22HD at home for heavy work mainly because it's bigger and the large scale of the artwork I'm creating. If my back hurts I like to use it on the couch with my laptop. But this beautiful Cintiq 16" is so minimally perfect that if I didn't already have my 22" it'd be my primary device at home as well as abroad. It's clear Wacom suffered some sort of stagnant complacency after having a monopoly on tablet tech for so many years. If I had to guess this entry level Cintiq model is a response to other capable tablet brands coming in hot on their heels. It's a flinching plea to the users who were drawn away to the iPadPro/iPencil/Procreate which I admittedly tried after the Mobile Studio Pro failed so hard. But this beautifully simple 16" model might just do the trick.