Wacom Cintiq Companion Hybrid

After months of rumblings about a standalone slate, Wacom finally unveiled not one, but two tablets back in September.

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The Hybrid may be the perfect multi-touch pen tablet, despite its bulk. But if you rely on smaller gadgets for the road, you may be disappointed.

In June of 2012, I reviewed my first Wacom product, the Intuos 5 medium-sized pen tablet. I’ve always wanted to try a Cintiq product, but they weren’t quite what a video editor or motion graphics designer like me really needed; until I saw the Companion.

The new tablets run Windows 8 and Android, respectively, and will be available in the fall.

If you're a tablet user who likes to draw, you know that the experience offered by an iPad or other consumer-oriented tablet is pretty limited. Wacom, maker of drawing-specific digital interfaces, now has a portable and powerful solution in the Cintiq Companion. It's great at one thing, but sometimes that's just not…

The Wacom Cintiq Companion is the tablet illustrators and design professionals have dreamed about, but it's a bit too pricey and specialized for the average shopper.