/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I currently use an XP-Pen Deco Pro Medium.
The side buttons are finnicky, the scroll wheel randomly changes sensitivity, the pen's side buttons randomly stop working or spontaneously activate and change my brush settings mid-stroke, and the pen's sensitivity seems to change randomly. I've never even gotten tilt to work on this tablet a single time in the multiple years I have owned it.

I'm desperate to upgrade to say the least. The ones I'm considering are between
>Wacom PTH860 Intuos Pro
>Wacom PTZ930 Intuos 3
My reasoning is that I don't need or want a screen, and I want a large drawing area. I've heard the Intuos 3 is an excellent tablet but I don't know why. I've also heard that I'm supposed to avoid new Wacom products, and I also don't know why.

Price isn't really a problem to me if I know I'm getting something good, and I don't care about having to buy a ton of nibs. I have heard that the Intuos 3 has so few pressure levels that it's not good at fine details compared to modern products. Overall I am leaning toward the Intuos Pro just because it's a newer product with more pressure levels and maybe a higher resolution given its surface area.

What does /dtg/ recommend? am I misunderstanding something somewhere?

This is a thread to discuss all kinds of digital drawing hardware made in china: non-display graphics tablets, pen display tablets, portable tablets and more.

>What should I buy?
State your:
>Budget
>Location
>Type (display? non-display? portable?)
>Size (in inches)
>Other information
>Previous equipment

If you have any additional questions, ask them.

>Recommended tablets:

XP-Pen Deco 01 v2 - Best budget tablet.
huion h1060p and XP-Pen Deco pro - Best mid range screenless tablets.
Intuos Pro - If you want to pay 6x the price to get 5% better performance
XP-Pen Artist Pro 16 and Huion Kamvas Pro 16 - Best budget display tablets
Used iPad Pro 2nd Gen 12.9" - Best option for wobbly doodles and sketches on the go
Galaxy Tab S7+ - Good premium alternative to an iPad Pro
Used Cintiq Pro 24 - Big tablet for big budgets

>Avoid:
Small screenless tablets
Devices with N-trig technology
Non-pro Intuos and other entry-level Wacom tablets - Poor build quality, lackluster pens, no tilt, struggles to register light pressure.
Wacom One - being budget wacom tablet means you will always get wobbly lines.
Lenovo, MS Surface, Gaomon - Bad drawing performance.

Look out for the schizo trying to lead you into buying overpriced entry-level Wacom products.

Wacom seems to just overprice everything cause they got that name recognition. Not sure if it's really cause they are so much better or just marketing at this point.

Anyone got a XP-PEN Deco Pro? Thinking about ordering one this week, and it seems to be the best tablet outside of the expensive Intuos Pro Medium which is too high for my budget right now, and the regular non-pro Intuos looks like some cheap ass piece of fucking trash honestly. I want to step up in size from my old small Bamboo.

Why would you buy an Intuos Pro when Deco Pro exists?