I recently bought a Wacom Graphire2 (5x4) and I love it. I never used a tablet before, so this is the only experience I can talk about. It comes with a pen and a mouse, and both don't use cables nor batteries (unlike Hyperpen, which for what I know uses impossible to find batteries and has a cable attached at the end of the pen). The wacom has two different modes you can configure for each tool (pen and mouse): mouse mode and pen mode. The pen mode is absolute (meaning that a point in the tablet corresponds to a point in your screen) and the mouse mode is like when you use your mouse; if you lift it and place it somewhere else it will go from the point you left it. You can configure each tool anyway you want, and can have different configurations for different applications. I really love it. Installation was a breeze, not a single problem. Hope this helps.

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