Is this review still somewhat relevant or is there a better one for about the same prize? Also has the performance of this one kept up with the times?

@@jonteguy It's still relevant. Deco series is XP-Pen's best tablet in term looks, build quality and drawing performance.

this vs the deco 03, whats your opinion? what about the deco pro small? are there others for similar price that are better now? thanks.

Is it compatible with ipad via bluetooth

Is this compatible with ipad via bluetooth

What made you choose this over Deco 3? Are you satisified with your choice? I am slightly torn between these two options (Deco Pro SMALL and Deco 03 Medium) --> Pro has tilt function (don't require it at least yet) and more advanced control wheel, BUT Deco 03 is wireless, screen estate slightly bigger and RPS (response rate) is higher 266 (vs. Deco Pro ~200). Especially regarding to last one my question is also to @Teoh Yi Chie: do you recall if there was any noticable difference in lag compared to Deco 03 you've reviewed last year?

@kohko: I too was confused between deco 03 and deco pro small, finally placed my order today for deco pro small. Checked, deco 03's area is too large and weight would also increase accordingly. Deco pro small : decent size (not sure why they call it small), android connectivity, dial is much better and usability is more than deco 03, weight is lesser (easier to carry), wired (definitely a con here but I guess we will have to sit in front of screen in any case of I think this is also fine), tilt function is a plus (missing in deco 03). Plus stylus is better in case of deco pro, nib is much better, best point got it for $ 123 almost $ 30-40 cheaper than deco 03. My first tablet, I'm excited for this.

I don’t show prices because you can always get the latest most accurate price on the website you buy from.

does this tablet compatible with windows 11

If you are a experienced artist I would suggest getting one with screen. Innovator 16 is pretty good price.

lucky bastard

nice question brother

The small still has a 9 by 5 inch drawing area so it's still comfortable to work with. If you're on budget, I can recommend that easily.

Ooo I’m between the two too tell me which one you chose!

But deco 3 only if you need bluetooth. Deco pro for extra wheel functionality.

hey if u see this, which one did u choose and would you advise also going for that choice?

Thanks for your support 😁

Should be compatible

its like a mouse . it works on everything if you have the drivers

Both will perform the same for photo retouching.

Drawing performance is going to be rather similar.

Works with those software. no problem

For that kind of work, you may want to choose a smaller tablet. Like Huion Hs64 or XP Pen G640S for example. Because when you're using for PowerPoint or presentation, you will tend to move a lot across the screen. So basically, using larger tablet would be tiring and inefficient

The youtuber lawrence mann did a developer mode trick to make them work. It was unclear from his video how he programmed them, but it looked like it worked for zoom at least.

These Wacom alternatives are very good. These brands have been around for a very long time, and they get better and better.

Well, it's way comparable to Wacom Intuos Pro, since it has Alloy body and 8 buttons shortcut+2 wheel. The texture won't run off easily and it doesn't eat Nib like breakfast. But The best thing about this tablet is, The Nib won't roll to the flat side in the pen !!!!!

Huion tablets are good. Comparable to XP Pen and Wacom

From inexperienced user perspective, all you may only notice that XP pen and Wacom mostly use Rough texture. While Huion mostly use smoother texture (even though Huion tries to use rougher texture on their newer tablet).

Drawing experience is same so just go for the design you like.

I feel the ends looked like condem. At 9:30 u can see it on thick strokes he does.

Both are capable so just choose the one based on your budget or the design you like.

Using MacOS? If so install Wacom Intuos driver too

@@teohyc yes, I have a MacBook I install whatever ?

Maybe check whether the wheel is accepting the correct input first. If you're using the default settings, maybe change to keyboard shortcuts. Check with www.keyboardtester.com

Not sure what happened. Maybe contact XP Pen and ask

@@teohyc i did try, but no response yet

Deco Pro is way better. It has way cooler design that even win Red Dot and Good Design Award. The body also build better for left hand user. The tablet itself has more button (8 buttons and 2 wheel, 1 physical and 1 virtual wheel). The Deco 03 only have 6 button and one wheel. The pen is better since it would hold the Nib better so it won't roll to the flat side (even Wacom haven't achieve this yet). While the XP pen Deco 03 have their ususal pen that would roll to the flat side after drawing sometime. Not a big deal, since Wacom tablet have this problem too. The texture is scratch resistant and won't worn off easily, and it won't eat Nib like breakfast. Even if your Nib needs to be replaced, you already get 8 replacement. And even if you run out of replacement, there's 100 Nib pack of replacement for 10 dollar (yeah, 100 nibs. It's overkill, but useful). On the other hand, Deco 03 had easily worn texture after some time of working. It's not a big deal too, since worked texture can still be drawn on. Also Wacom Intuos pro Pth-650 had this problem too anyway. Now, let's talk about size. The active area of the Deco Pro Small maybe sound smaller that Deco 03. But actually, they both at the same range of Wacom Medium tablet size range (8×5 - 11×6 range). So it won't make a big difference to be considered as a factor. Then, about response rate, that's not a real thing. It's hard to actually count the response rate of Nowadays tablet without specialized hardware or High speed camera. That's why its not necessary to be take Into factor. And last, the wireless. It's really bad because it has delay even in real close range. It's so bad that its better to consider that this tablet doesn't have wireless functionality at all.

@@01_zenyobi Hi, thank you for your thorough reply. I've bought myself the Deco Pro already a couple of weeks ago and have been very satisfied. So basically I agree with all the points you're making. Sizewise it's more than enough and having the double scroll wheel + 8 buttons there are plenty shortcuts you can assign. Durable made; e.g. my daughter used accidently the other side of the pen on the tablet, but no visible scratches on the surface.

Well, I'm not an experienced Artist. But I'm quite experienced in Pentab and Drawing monitor recommendation. Still, since you only want from artist stand point, I have copy your question into my Friend blog. He would give proper answer for you, sine I'm not as experienced as him. Btw, there's not much difference between Deco 03, Deco Pro, and Intuos Pro. They're easily comparable.

Hey there, For your questions: 1) I believe the XP-Pen Deco Pro pen works better, although only slightly better due to how the pen has a slightly different inner mechanism which holds the pen nib better. 2) With regards to compatibility, features, durability, and no jitter, I believe the XP-Pen Deco Pro satisfies features, durability, and no jitter. However, I am not completely sure about compatibility. All I can say is that it will work with “most major programs”, so programs like Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint, Corel Painter, Medibang, Krita, Sketchbook, etc. If you are not sure about the compatibility with your program, it would be a very good idea to ask XP-Pen directly whether the tablet is compatible with your program(s). I hope that helps, Nikage" Be sure to visit his blog digitalarttabletguides.wordpress.com/ He has done a lot of review with Wacom, XP pen, huion, and a lot of other tablet (with screen or without screen). I got a lot of knowledge form his site...

@@01_zenyobi thanks for the detailed reply of my queries and the for the link.

Both have similar drawing performance. You can just get the design you like better

Teoh Yi Chie Ok! I think im gonna go for the huion one. Did you have any problem in a long time?

Deco Pro is definitely more premium in terms of look and feel. It's good if you have the budget for it. If not, Deco 03 is good too since it has the same drawing performance, and you save money.

@@teohyc Thanks mate

It's not a wireless tablet

@@teohyc thank you!

It's natural for the lines to taper when you are drawing with a real brush. So for the digital brush not to taper nicely is unnatural

@@teohyc oh, thanks, then this can be my first tablet.

About one meter

@@teohyc Thanks. Do you know what is the length of the wire in wacom intuos pro equipment?

Yes

Functionality is similar so just get the design you like better.

@@teohyc okay 😅😅😅

A three button mouse is better for 3D modeling

It is

@@teohyc God damnit, that's a deal breaker for me :-( Thanks for the info!

Is that problem on all drawing software? Maybe it’s the pen. I’m not sure. Contact XP Pen and see what they say

drawing softwares such as krita has tablet listings on the website that tell you what tablets they support and tablets they don't, it says most xp pen have had trouble responding. with certain random exceptions as well

what happened with this? would you recommend against this product?

First test with other apps to see if the problem is specific to Photoshop or it's a hardware problem. Test with Krita and Medibang Paint Pro. For older software contact XP-Pen. Or contact XP-Pen support to tell them your problem

If you really need Android functionality, just keep using the H950P. All you had to do is Upgrade your H950P firmware to the newest firmware using Huion Firmware tool. Don't bought XP pen if all you need is for Android functionality (except G640S). Because XP pen use all of the tablet active area for Android, which means it would be tiring for your arm because you need to move so much. while Huion Only use 1/3 part of it so it would smaller and match with the screen and making it not too big. So it would be comfortable and not tiring your arm.

I got this answer from bringing the question to a good tablet blog : "Hey there, You have a good question there! I would say that all the tablets from Wacom, Huion, and XP-Pen (these three being the 3 I think are the best right now) that I have tried are relatively the same in terms of performance, but somewhat different in terms of feel. For other companies, the performance is hit-or-miss and is often quite a bit worse than the main 3. With regards to Wacom, Huion, and XP-Pen, like I said earlier their pens perform to around the same quality, but the feel of their tablets are slightly different. -For instance, Wacom and XP-Pen usually use very rough textures, whereas Huion uses smoother textures (although they’re trying rougher ones on newer tablets). A rougher texture feels more like drawing on paper, but it causes pen nibs to wear more and the texture eventually wears off after a fair bit of use, so the texture type is a bit of trade-off and is individual preference. -Another difference is that Wacom pen nibs move very little from min to max pressure, whereas Huion and XP-Pen pen nibs move a bit more. Because of this, drawing with Wacom’s pen feels a bit “harder”, while Huion and XP-Pen pens feel springy-er. Again, this is individual preference and doesn’t affect drawing performance. When it comes to the XP-Pen Deco Pro, I wouldn’t say it’s worth buying a whole new tablet just to replace your working Huion H950P. The pen performance of the Huion H950P is just about as good as the pen performance on the XP-Pen Deco Pro, so all you would be getting is a rougher textured surface, Android compatibility (if I’m not mistaken, the H950P has that too, and you can ask Huion support about it), and the touch/physical wheel. I don’t think there’s any advantage to the XP-Pen Deco Pro aside from that. I hope that helps," Nikage

@@01_zenyobi I wish huion was a little less springy.currently its impossible to go from high pressure to low pressure as the pen nib would be pressed and won't release unless you lift off the pen. The xp pen deco pro has a different nib. It looks like wacoms nibs. Not like the huion nib which has a spring like structure. I wish I went for this xp pen deco pro. I realized that I really don't like display tablets. Some offset issues makes me look at the cursor anyway so what's the point. I just wish huion releases a different pen for the kamvas pro series

@@kiren3168 Hmm ? What Huion do you use ? H950P ? Hs610 ? Impossible, it's either you got Defective tablet or pen, or you got Hs610 pressure jump problem.. Its always possible to go from high to low, my friend were able to do that easily (in his Huion H640P, H950P, H1060P, Hs610 with the same pen, as he own all of them and test them in digitalarttabletguides.wordpress.com/) Edit: Well, after reading your comment carefully, it seems you got a Defective Pen !! You can contact Huion for this problem and use the 1-Year-Warranty to get pen replacement (or bought it yourself if the warranty is over. It only cost 20-30$ for the pen depends on your country). And also, The Huion Kamvas series uses PW500 (or PW507 for some) that were less springy to lower the tension that were given to the screen.. Still, It were based of PW100 pen from Huion battery free pens.

@@01_zenyobi Hi thank you for your comment. I am struggling with the PW507 pen. It came with the huion Kamvas pro 16. I love the tablet very high quality it's just that the pen nib feels flimsy and hard to maintain. The tablet is very sensitive to pressure but the pen nib retracts a little bit on the very high end and between the mid range and low range. So basically when I press it lightly it retracts a little bit and then when I press heavily it retracts a lot. And while it's pressed down I can go from the high end to the low end as the nib would be pressed a little inside the tablet and the only way to achieve the lightest strokes would be to lift off the pen to release the nib. I don't know maybe it's how the pen is designed and not a faulty pen. I really like huion (they improved their calibration now too) I just wish they would wok on their pens nibs. I really want a firm nib not a flimsy one

You can set the speed with the driver

@@teohyc Where is the driver?

It should work. Just to be sure, go search Maya or Zbrush forums on Huion tablet compatibility

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Yes

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Yeah, it should work. But it's quite an expensive tablet for just online teaching and note taking. You can buy cheaper tablet. E.g. XP-Pen Deco Fun.

@@teohyc Mate, Currently Deco fun is not available in my country. Do you have any other suggestion for online teaching, note taking and occasional Photoshop/Illustrator. Thanks

@@scionax You can check out other brands of tablets from Huion, Parblo, Artisul, Gaomon

It sounds like a hardware issue. Try Krita to test the tilt. Use Pencil 5 brush. As for the pressure it does seem like hardware issue. Contact XP Pen and see what they say

@@teohyc Thanks for your reply! Much appreciated. Already in touch with xp-pen support... trying the obvious cleanup and re-install. Actually, I have no other tablet driver stuff. Removed everything and checked twice manually. Regarding TILT in KRITA with #5 PENCIL: I have tested it again. I am not sure the brush feature works as it should. The brush itself seem to have a tilted, tall rectangle shape, right?! Vertically it draws a regugal line, horizontally it has a thicker shape and draws a shade. Is this the normal behavior? The PEN tilt seem to have an effect on the opacity. That's all. (What I expected is a thin line with holding the pen perpendicular to the tablet... and with more tilting a wider stroke.)

@@maikkaune With Krita Pencil #5, the shape of the cursor will follow where the pen is pointing. That shows that tilt works. As for the settings, like how tilt controls pressure, opacity or angle, it comes down to the setting from the individual brush.

@@teohyc Thanks, but htis is not the actual behavior I am after... You might know the typical iPad/Pencil behavior: The more you tilt the pencil, the shape of the stroke changes and you can shade an area. Do you know a similar brush/setting in Photoshop, Krita, ArtRage or others? Here is a good example of the behavior, seen on the ARTIST PRO screen: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y9ibY6mVyp_QhYE.html

Maybe in the future. I’ve been to New York and San Diego before

Teoh Yi Chie Keep us posted!

See if there is a Save or Ok button to click. Some drivers will need settings to be saved manually than automatically

@@teohyc I saved the changes and even tested it on 2 different PCs

Did you purchase any one? I was wondering the same. What's Your opinion?

@@raviguptha2502 yes, xp deco 03 working properly. It depends on what you need. Deco pro works for phone devices. But xp-pen deco 03 is far better since it can work only for computer and laptops. Also I recommend to check the specifications for each one. And also look for the one that could suits your requirements.