As I’m starting to plunge into Photoshop, it’s clear that a pen tablet will be more than just a nice-to-have.  Wacom’s Intuos 4 seems to be the front-runner in the field.  And their web site will proudly tell you that “Adobe Photoshop is specifically designed to be used with a Wacom pen tablet. Photoshop has more than 20 customizable tools that perform at their best with a Wacom pen.”  But which to get?  Bamboo or Intuos4?

So I went to Wacom’s web site.  They want you to pick a territory to see details on products and distributors within that territory.  Reasonable enough.

Except that their Asia Pacific site covers Australia, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.

So over to their China web site, only offered in simplified and traditional Chinese.  Go to the search for a dealer page and there are two drop-down boxes.  Select Hong Kong in the first box and the second box (where presumably you should have the option to select HK, Kowloon or NT) never populates, so when you press the search button all you get is an error.

So first of all, they don’t even offer an English language option for Hong Kong.  And then the Chinese option for Hong Kong basically doesn’t work.  (Or do any of my Chinese-fluent readers have better luck with this than I do?)

So maybe it’s time to figure out what other companies’ products I should consider.

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