I've been using this almost every day for years with no problem.

I've been using this almost every day for years with no problem.   Read Less

My first Wacom tablet was the Original Intuos 4x5 back in 1998, I loved it so much that the next year I purchased the 12x18 mon...  Read More

My first Wacom tablet was the Original Intuos 4x5 back in 1998, I loved it so much that the next year I purchased the 12x18 monster! I currently use a Cintiq 21UX and a Fujitsu Tablet, so all my digitizers are screen based. I purchased this for my nephew as a gift as he wants to be a designer just like his uncle (good boy!). Below are couple of instructions I gave to him as he was trying to figure out the tablet.From Mouse to Pen:You will have to adjust to the cursor moving based on LOCATION instead of drag. The left top corner of the digitizer (tablet) is the left corner of your monitor, the bottom right is the bottom right. I've seen many people trying to use a tablet for the first time and they'll drag it half way and go back to the middle and try to drag the rest of the way (kinda like a mouse/touchpad) instead of moving to pen to the corner.Yes, you can set it in options so that it acts like a touchpad instead of location accuracy but then why did you get a tablet? Well, Carpel Tunnel Syndrome people aside (a tablet is great for people with this ailment), the point of this tablet is for fast location accurate movement. You'll get used to it. Oh yeah, you can use the touch of this tablet to use it as a trackpad, but as others mentioned the Touch aspect is finicky at best, it just doesn't feel and act as good as your laptop touchpad.Double Clicking:Trying to double click at first by tapping quickly 2x with your pen also has a learning curve for some people. You can set one of your thumb rocker buttons to double click if you have a problem (by default it comes as TOP rocker = Right Click, and BOTTOM rocker = Pan/Scroll, you can change the BOTTOM one to double click). Or you can use the BUTTONS on the side for easy double click or right click.Button Customization:If you get a little more adventurous you can customize every available button (the 4 on the tablet and the 4 on the pen--yes, the tip and eraser count as buttons) I actually use the BOTTOM rocker = CTRL-Z, so whatever I'm drawing I quickly press the rocker to UNDO my last couple of steps (in photoshop, just edit the keyboard shortcuts and change the Ctrl-Alt-Z into Ctrl-Z like everything else in the world--why did photoshop have to change this in CS4?) Every button is customizable so find your best combination of Pan/Scroll, Program Launch, double click, menu launch, etc.Software:I wouldn't recommend the Bamboo Dock, they are toys really. You can use your pen on Office 2003, 2007, 2010 to highlight, annotate, etc. Painter Essentials is a good software to play around with pressure sensitive tools, keep practicing on it! Photoshop is perfect for this pen as well. The best software for pure pen use (designed from the ground up to use PEN) is the Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 2011 if you're a student go to their website and you can get a student license with your .EDU address or you can download a 15 day trial version and see for yourself.Q&A:If the touch is not good, then why not just buy the cheaper WACOM PEN instead of Bamboo Fun?Because the cheaper Pen has half the resolution and pressure sensitivity.- Wacome Pen (CTL460) 512 levels pressure sensitivity and 1270 lines per inch (lpi)- Wacom Pen & Touch (CTH460), Craft (CTH461), Fun (CTH661) 1024 pressure and 2540 lpi- Wacom Intuos (the professional line) 2048 pressure (and TILT) and 5080 lpiOf course the price reflects the advantages and if you're going to work on anything that requires pressure sensitivity (sketching, photo editing, etc) then the higher the better. Just to note, my original Intuos (1998) was 1024 pressure and 2540 lpi from what I remember, so that's plenty.Hope this helped, I have set to receive emails from comments so I can reply to any particular question as well.   Read Less