HI, the wacom tablets are just great and also incredible precise. Of course I had to buy mine right before they announced and started going over to intuos/graphire 2 versions. Well, version 2 isn't very different to be honest :) If you're a 2d artist the tablet's sensitivity (1024 levels) is fantastic and it's incredibly user friendly in terms of software compability, installation, ease of use (comes with chord free drawing applets) etc. ALso, it's quite affordable and among the best on the marked. I only hope I can get around this Adobe thing, since Corel Painter is a hopelessly unstable program (bugs, freezing etc etc) and I really want to change over to photoshop for my 2d work, but I'm not sure yet if it's as streamlined and 'smooth' in 2D freehand paining (as it claims to be). When you need to make fast, dynamic sketches etc, little irregularities to the drawing line is just not acceptable. (also, it tends to stall a bit and the line is updated in a uncorrect fashion..and that's hopeless!)