What everyone here has said about the Graphire. BTW, I use both (6x8 Intuos at work and Graphire at home). The things the Intuos can do that the Graphire can't don't mean enough to me to justify buying the expensive one, and moreover they use the same pens, mice and drivers. Wacom is good about keeping their drivers up to date. One consideration: there's a tiny bug in some older Wacom drivers which causes Flash 4 and 5 (the application not the plugin) to crash on dual-Pentium systems. Tech support at Wacom was very friendly about walking me through the fixes necessary. And, strangely enough, it's pronounced (I kid you not) "Whack-em".