At $399.95, the Wacom One Creative Pen Display—geared to amateur artists, note-takers, and doodlers—is the company's lowest-priced pen display. It's in effect an interactive monitor, controlled by means of the included Wacom One Pen. Although the Wacom One's 13.3-inch screen is relatively small and its stylus more basic than the one found in most Wacom products, the price is right for casual artists and students, and it becomes our Editors' Choice entry-level pen display. A Basic Slate The antiglare screen has the same full HD or 1080p (1,920-by-1,080-pixel) resolution as the 15.6-inch Wacom Cintiq 16. It uses advanced hyper-viewing angle (AHVA) technology, a variant on familiar in-plane switching (IPS) technology rather than VA. Measuring 0.6 by 14.1 by 8.9 inches and weighing 2.2 pounds, the Wacom One—which I'll simply call the One from here on—looks like a tablet, but with thick matte-black bezels (1.3 inches on the bottom, an inch on each side, and just under an inch on to...
Not exactly an impulse buy but priced well below Wacom pen displays like the Cintiq 16, the Wacom One is a fine product for students, doodlers, and casual artists who'd like to write and sketch digitally.
Moderately priced; Easy to learn and use; Comfortable if basic stylus; Comes with a full Bamboo Paper download (plus trial programs)
No multi-touch (finger) support; Warranty is only one year