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# Buying an Intuos Pro 2017 in 2026

## Summary

QUESTION: Is it worth buying the Intuos Pro 2017 (PTH-x60) series in 2026?

ANSWER: It will become harder to use this tablet in the future. For most people, I recommend buying the Intuos Pro 2025.

## Basics

The PTH-x60 series is absolutely excellent. It is just as good as the Intuos Pro 2025 (PTK-x70) series. Many people still prefer the Intuos Pro 2017 series to the Intuos Pro 2025 series. These tablets come with the industry's best pen, which has superior pressure performance.

## Challenges

Wacom professional pen tablets have a support lifetime of something like 10 to 12 years. When the support lifetime ends two things will happen:

* Wacom will stop providing updated drivers for that tablet. Newer drivers will simply refuse to work with it.
* Wacom support will no longer help you with the tablet. They will suggest that you buy a newer one.

Based on previous data, I believe support will end between 2027 and 2029. It could be longer because the Intuos Pro 2017 series is very popular. But ultimately, I expect the support lifetime to completely end by 2030.

## Using this tablet in the future

After the end of the support lifetime, we can consider the Intuos pro 2017 series to be an “older tablet”. Using older tablets is totally fine but you have to be aware of the issues. See this document: [Using older drawing tablets](/drawtab/guides/general/older-drawtabs.md)

The hardware will last forever but eventually not having updated drivers will pose a problem.

You can use older drivers for a while, until some point when they will no longer work. New drivers will refuse to work with the older tablets. See: [Older Wacom drivers](/drawtab/guides/drivers/older-wacom-drivers.md)

Another option is to use something like OpenTabletDriver, which is challenging to set up for artistic use but does work extremely well. This is an option for advanced users and requires some technical expertise. For a typical user, I would not advise it unless you have help. See: [Install OpenTabletDriver on Windows](/drawtab/guides/drivers/opentabletdriver/otd-windows-install.md)