I am looking to buy the 4"x5" Intuos wacom drawing tablet for my Windows 98 PC. I am looking to use it to draw thinks like hair with photoshop. I have heard that there are problems with this tablet when using it with Windows-based PCs (instead of Macs). Does any one have any info on this? Any help would be appriciated. Thanks

I have a 4 by 5 intuos on a PC PIII-450 on usb port and was working with WIN98SE and now i use with WIN ME.Intuos have a better contruction,better resolution than the Wacom Graphire model ,and more goodies like programmable menus on the tablet.But the graphire one is very nice and less expansive;i have tried it some days before i change for Intuos because i wanted to buy mouse4d from Wacom(i finally bought this mouse and i regret now).Have fun!i can not draw now without a pen

I have intuos working with Windows ME and ,Cmoreno,i am agree with you:i also recommand the Graphire one

if you go for the graphire ou need a usb in our pc the velocity in the usb help you more i use to have a intuos 4x 5 and now a graphire and garphire its best

I have Windows ME now and have no problems with my Intuous 4x5. However, when I had Windows 98, the tablet frequently didn't load or would crash. This is the trouble I had. Definately get the tablets guys! At this rate they're going to be cheaper than the software to run them on!!

Well I don't have one, but I do know about them... And the size and kind all depends on what your doing... Like I do Magazine Ads, Web Graphics, Interfaces, Photo-Retouching/Editing, and will be doing 3d texturing soon... I will also be doing Cad/Cam For work like that I'm told I will need around 12"X12", and a 4D Mouse with CrossHairs (For Cad). Now, if your not going to be doing A LOT of different kinds of work like I do, then a smaller one with a regular pen and maybe one of the graphire ones would be fine... It's like a computer... Most people don't by a P III 1Ghz computer with 512 MB SDRAM, 60GB HD, Geforce2 ULTRA Graphics chip, and the Koolmaxx videio cooling fan system to run NotePad, but if your doing intense work (Or if you happen to be one of the snotty kids that only has to learn to go to the bank for mommys and daddys money) then you get it... Anyways, sorry I can't answer your real question...

I said that i regret bying mouse4d,but after more days of use i begin to appreciate it:smooth move on the tablet,precise and more speedy buttons than my logitech.I like very much its thumbwheel .Still buggy when i use with Deep Paint which it suppose to support mouse 4d.Still sometime seems stopping a fraction of second on the screen.This mouse not replace the pen for drawing but as mouse,i can say now i like it.Need Intuos tablet for using mouse 4d.Note that this mouse 4d is very different than the one coming with Graphire tablet

Have never used an intuos, but have used an A4 ultrapad on an old Mac7500 (OS8.1) with no trouble for about 4 years and have never regretted the purchase. Have recently bought a wintel pc (windows ME) (school compatibility for kids) and had no trouble tranferring the use of the tablet to the pc, as it was the serial version. All I needed to do was download the driver from Wacom, and remove the adaptor originally supplied for the Mac. I suspect (but don't know) that the better specs of newer tablets are irrelevant when they're actually in use - why wonder if it's shade 177 or 409 if it's doing the business? I sometimes think that something smaller would be more convenient - but those thoughts usually arrive when I can't think of what to put on the blank sheet! Personally, I'd try to draw hairy type stuff in painter -