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How long would you expect a new drawing tablet to last?

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I've got a Wacom Bamboo CTL-460 and it's lasted me 10 years and going (although I've almost wore a hole through the drawing surface).  Just curious about the life expectancy of newer tablets, by wacom and other manufacturers, in case I need to replace it in the future. 

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my dad still has his wacom Bamboo in good condition so...

My CTL-4100 is about 4 months old and looking good but I personally don't use it too much.

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I have a Wacom Graphire 3 from 2004 and it still works.

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It depends, but I don't see why more recent budget, or higher end drawing tablets wouldn't last as long as older ones. Probably the main concern on newer tablets may be the port used to connect the tablet to the PC since newer tablets often have a detachable cable whereas older ones like the one you mentioned doesn't have that. And of course the likelihood of that port breaking depends on how often you detach that cable if at all, and how much pressure you put on the connector.

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With tablets the moving parts are the nib and the drawing surface rubbing.  With old wackos the nibs were made of Teflon which has a limited life, but they had no electronics in them and were just cylinders of plastic with a dull point on one side.  If you could make nibs as needed out of Teflon stock they would work until compatibility issues made them useless or you wore a hole in the face.  There’s always coffee spills of course.  That’s a separate issue. Some scribe surfaces have screens in them though so their life would be as long as the screen.  If the screen is oled there’s a time limit in hours of use per pixel.

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