so there are already a couple of
video reviews on youtube of the dell canvas. Looks pretty cool and its about $1,000 cheaper than the Cintiq 27HD touch
I love this thing. My fav thing at CES pen wise.
The interesting thing about it is, It's not using DTK pen frequency like Cintiq 27QHD. It's actually using
Penabled EMR frequency, like Samsung S-Pens and older Tablet PCs like T902, Surface Pro 2, etc. This is great since you still get pen tilt like 27QHD (all Wacom EMR pens have necessary hardware to do tilt. They only lock that functionality out in digitizer board firmware), but the replacement pens are as low as
$25 per pen! (Fujitsu still sells their UD EMR pen 2 pack for $50).
How I found that out was hilarious. I was at the Dell event, was talking to the product development lady, and by habit took out my trusty Axiotron Modbook pen (which back in the day I bought like 5 of them for $15 each on eBay) and started to use it on the Canvas, not expecting it to do anything. But to my and the Dell lady's surprise, it worked! It worked just as well as the Dell pen, which BTW does not have an earser on the back. I had to explain to the Dell lady about all the Wacom pen frequencies but I could tell she was like dunno, don't care. Ah... marketing product managers... They are practically useless when it comes to tech stuff.
Anyways, this thing IMO kills 27QHD in value since the pen action is just as good, but the touch is thrown in for that $1800 price and it's FANTASTIC! I never felt multitouch action that smooth on a large Cintiq before. 22HD Touch and s4HD Touch were horrible. I don't know if 24QHD Touch improved since those two, but Dell Canvas has touch as good as Surface Pro 4.
When it comes out and you were in a market for 27QHD, get this instead. They will have the Wacom Wintab driver for it and everything. It's awesome. And if you are getting one for work, getting a Dell computer accessory is like zero problem for corporate purchases.
BTW, the reason Wacom is happy to provide Dell with parts and support for the Canvas is because they will be replace the 27QHD soon. This is just my educated guess, but you will see either a 27" or 28" 4K replacement soon. And prepare to pay through the nose if you want the oh I don't know, let's call it Cintiq 27/28UHD Pro.
