FWIW, I use a $400 Wacom Intuos tablet at work and an $85 Wacom Graphire at home. They are functionally one and the same, except the Graphire comes with a 2-button thumbwheel mouse as well as a stylus. The technical difference (besides size) is that the Intuos has 2048 levels of sensitivity, whereas the Graphire has a mere 1024. I cannot tell the difference.