I noticed an Aipek 12x9 inch drawing pad/tablet for $149.99 at CompUSA. Also a Graphire 2 4x5 pad for $99.99. Are these reasonable pads to purchase and are the prices good? Any sage advice would be welcome!! I bought a Hyperpen 6000u 4.5x6 inch pad some time ago and it was only problems. My computer froze, etc. I never did get it to work. Also because I have never gotten one of these tablets to work, I don't understand what difference size makes. The small pad looks handy, but there must be some reason that people buy big pads. Why? Tracing? Does the "picture stay stable" on the pad itself? so that the size of the pad matters in the sense that it represents the actual art production? Or is it like a mouse pad where the cursor on the screen just takes off from wherever you make contact between the mouse and the pad? If it is like a mousepad then the small tablet would do me okay, I THINK. But if the size of the tablet is what you get on the screen, then I am not sure how I would proceed drawing. So I am willing to try again to use a tablet. But I want to avoid the problems of the past. Any suggestions from 2D artists and retouchers out there?