8100+ views and new graphic tablet

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Hello everyone.

Many thanks for 8000 views! (8150 currently) Believe me, I'm very happy of this result, because I'm quite busy from some time and I don't have enought time for my hobby. I'm actually doing stuff for university, but after 15th of may I will finish most of my work and I will have more time :)

From month (?) I have new graphic tablet, it is Bosto Kingtee 22HD+. It's tablet with LCD screen and I now can draw freely without any limitations, it's just like drawing on the paper, with ctrl+z and other benefits that digital art is giving us :) No more Bamboo, Intuos type tablets, it was nightmare for me, I totally wasn't able to draw comfortable on my old bamboo. Because by my bamboo I was in love with digital, I didn't want to come back to traditional (I'm only coming back for anatomy practice etc). Now my dream come true :) After my 30+ days of Cintiq Companion Hybrid testing, I was pretty sure that it is stuff dedicated to me.

What I can say about Bosto? It's much better than some people are trying to describe in various reviews, forums, YouTube etc. Most of them are about older version of this tablet, now most of the problems are gone.
Mine is upgraded "+" version, which is shipping from january 2014. All currently available 22HD's are upgraded "+" version.
This tablet has 21,5 inch screen size, FullHD resolution and IPS screen panel, also VGA, HDMI and DVI connectors and baterryless pen.

I'm very satisfied by this tablet with my current needs. There is no major problems with my one. It just works as expected. I really can't see any major differences to Wacom's 22HD. Of course, construction of the tablet and stand is different, also no additional buttons on the Bosto. Also, no pen tilt recognition on Bosto. But with this price I can accept these shortcomings. With manga studio 5 I'm using mostly, I don't have any problems with jitter, pen jumping, pressure etc. Everything is fine.

About jitter and line quality: without any post correction and stabilization function, lines are a little more worse than in Wacom, but these still are acceptable and most of people may not see any difference at all. With pen stabilization function (it's available in most good drawing software, like Manga Studio, SAI, Krita, SketchBook etc) lines are fantastic.
Also new digitizer in 22HD+ has much more precision, at the moment - I can't see any bigger difference comparing to Wacom.

About pen - it's triangle shaped, not round like in Wacom or other tablets. In my opinion - it's pretty comfortable, before first use I was very sceptist, but now I can say it's very nice idea! I also received additional 3 nibs, but with slick drawing sufrace of Bosto's - it's probably more than enough. At the moment - my first nib is like new. Some people may be interested in gap between glass and screen. In old 22HD it was (as people reported) something like 5-6 milimeters (1/4 inch or a little less), in my one it looks like more like 3 - 3,5 milimeters (1/8 inch). I can't check this for sure, but screen gap looks like not much more than Cintiq 24HD has. Drawing surface of the tabblet is plastic and it's very slick. Wacom fans may be not really happy, because Wacom is using more paper-like surface. For me - slick surface is better. No scratches so far on the surface, but I'm really careful with the surface, and I'm using included drawing glove (like smudgeguard) and I'm cleaning pen nib and drawing surface very often, to prevent dust coming on the screen.

Honestly - I don't need Cintiq for the moment. Bosto is enought good to be called as good Cintiq alternative. Previous version maybe wasn't so good, but this one is ok!
It's also one of the very few LCD graphic tablets that has baterryless pen (probably only some hanvon tablets have this technology and of course Wacom has).

If someone is interested - I purchased this tablet from Bosto AME - www.bosto.co

Detailed review I will maybe post later. If you have some questions - ask here in comments, or by "Note".

Goodbye :)

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