At the Wacom booth, After Effects artist and Apple Engineer Ben Koning is spending his first 20 minutes of life as a Wacom user testing the new Intuos4 tablet. “In that time I’ve gone from completely flailing around, drawing things when I don’t want to, to being able to drive Photoshop and AE,” Koning says. “This is my first animation with keyframes and spline,” he says with mock pride, indicating a kindergarten-level construction of boxes on the monitor. Buy hey, he’s driving. “It’s responsive and easy to learn I’d have to say, almost like drawing with a real pencil or a real brush.”

Introduced in late March and now here at the show, the new tablet is the most stylish-looking release yet—and it’s ambidextrous. Most importantly, the pen has changed significantly now featuring 2048 levels of pressure sensitivitiy and the Wacom Tip Sensor recognizes pen input at 1 gram of nuance.

Also the express keys are upgraded so they feature OLEDs—now people can remember what their settings were, a big step forward for the product. No more touch strips—instead a touch ring, all contributing to the breakthrough look. $229, $349, $469 for small, medium, and large.