XPPen Updated Deco Mini7 V2 Drawing Tablet-16384 Levels of Pressure Battery-Free Stylus, 7 x 4 OSU Drawing Pad, 8 Hotkeys for Digital Art, Teaching, Gaming Graphic Tablet for Chrome, PC, Mac, Android

This is the perfect tablet for anyone who truly misses the old feel of Wacom products or a beginner that doesn't want to go all in on an Wacom Intuos Tablet. Lets start with the price, this little Deco 1 is a steal at 60 dollars. I feels great, the build quality is nice, the finishes are spot on. The drivers where super easy to install and the little guy worked right away. No messing around with settings or anything. I have only two complaints about the tablet as a whole. 1 - the pen is thin. I use it for long periods of time and holding a pen this thin gets tiring quick. If I was to by again I'd bump my budget up a few dollars and get the Deco 3 (the pen looks way more choice). 2 - every now and then the pen will "squeek" on the tablet. It took almost a month for me to notice because I'm always listening to music while I work. Not a big deal at all, but my wacom never did that.First time tablet buyers can stop here, this next bit is for Long time Wacom users or keep reading, I can't stop you...If you're like me and have been using Wacom tablets since the Intuos 2 and have been getting more and more frustrated with wacom products, here is your answer! This little guy feels exactly my Intuos 2 running on Windows XP. No fancy nonsense, no ripples, no keyboard pop ups, no hand writing pop ups, no ridiculous key mapping slider bar wheel button whatevers, no press and hold right click menus you never asked for, no messing with ten thousand hidden settings before you start working. Just a straight up tablet that works great out of the box!! I was blown away by it. I fully expected a piece of junk, but instead I was instantly thrown back in time to my first wacom tablet experience and I was in love!!! Also, it's literally an 1/8 the price for an Intuos pro of the same size, AN 1/8!!!!! I don't think I'll ever go back to Wacom after finding this gem. 10/10, would eight of these before buying a new Wacom tablet.

As of typing this review I've owned this drawing tablet for little over a year now, and hasn't failed me since. Its been used on both MacOS and Windows, gone through a variety of different drawing programs (FireAlpaca, Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint... and even games with drawing features like Jackbox), and been with me as I've improved my art skills. If you're a beginner or a hobbyist looking for a small, cheap drawing tablet, or even a parent with a kid who wants to try out digital art, this is the one for sure. I especially recommend it for parents with kids, this thing can really take a beating.However if you're a more advanced artist, this is good enough to use in a pinch but there's better ones on the market, even by XP-PEN.PROS:- Simple to use. You can adjust a variety of things in the driver program and even have the macro buttons change on a program basis- Great sensitivity. The tablet was always quick and responsive, and I never felt any lag over the full course of the year I had this- Buttons are nice and responsive. There's a nice click to them when you use it.CONS:- No tilt feature. The tablet is a bit limiting in this way, however it's not a massive deal-breaker in my opinion unless you've used tablets with tilt in the past and/or rely on that. I've been perfectly fine without tilt, but I can see this as a problem for some people- Driver program is a bit finicky at times, but still manageable. Once you get it working, it works.Last thing I'll mention is that only in the last month or so I started running into an issue where the button would sometimes send the input twice (i.e. I press the undo button once, but it undos two times). I have confirmed it's only an issue with the tablet, however this is most likely due to how often I used this tablet. This thing got really beat up but is still working perfectly fine!!!

The Xp-pen deco mini 7 is my first tablet and overall I like it. The hardware feels sturdy and the device just works with my phone and computer. I've encountered few downsides with its usage, but that's not to say the tablet or its maker is at fault. I am using this for doodles only.I use an old Nokia 6.1 (Android 10) from 2018 with the tablet to good effect. Unlike the majority of tablets that support phones, this tablet enables one to draw on the full surface of the tablet. The accuracy is decent because I could make circles and draw straight lines. The pressure sensitivity is present if the program supports it. I have found Ibis Paint X and Medibang work with it and the pen buttons too. I never realized how much I would enjoy switching to an eraser at a touch of a button. It makes fixing mistakes much easier. The face buttons on the tablet do not function much under android. They act as keyboard presses, but the commands sent are not meaningful to my phone. They're not customizable either. This is not much of an issue considering the size of my screen and the length of the cord necessitates keeping the tablet and phone at arm's length. The only issues I have had with the tablet is if I don't use it for a couple minutes it loses connection. I can't be sure if it is the tablet or the phone at fault, but for my needs it is good enough.The computer functionality is also satisfactory even though Xp-pen does not officially support my choice of operating system. I use Arch Linux and it is up to date as of today. I plugged in my tablet and it just worked. I did not need to download an additional driver, though Xp-pen has made a beta Linux driver available on their website. There are limitations to using the default driver in Arch in that similarly to the phone, the orientation is locked (this time landscape) and the button presses are not necessarily meaningful to programs. When I downloaded and used Mypaint, Gimp, and Krita found varying degrees of success with the tablet. Out of the three only Gimp required extra configuration to get pressure sensitivity working. The pad mapped accurately to my screen and thus my drawing was also accurate. The buttons all had varying effects in the art programs. It might be possible to change the programs' shortcuts to reflect the buttons, but that would be a pain.Xp-pen's Linux beta driver with its companion program alleviates some of the downsides of the default driver by allowing for some customization. Through the companion program the buttons on pen and tablet alike can be mapped to keyboard commands, mouse buttons, and opening programs. This allows for the tablet to be configured to work well with art programs. Additionally orientation, active area, and global pressure can be modified. Though I have yet to figure out the first two. The downside to the driver is that program has to be running for it to be used. For a beta solution it works well enough for me. It does however feel somewhat slower than the baked in driver.Overall I like this tablet for its decent functionality and am happy I purchased it.