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The Bottom Line: Multitouch in place of a mouse may not appeal to pro designers, but the Bamboo Fun Pen and Touch is an excellent choice for mobile users who want to begin dabbling with art tools.

Specs: External, PC, Mac, USB, 2540 dpi, 4 pin USB Type A, Stylus, Digitizer, Wired, Silver

The Bottom Line: With a beautiful and more functional new design, Wacom's Intuos4 tablet demonstrates that a lack of competition doesn't necessarily keep you from innovating.

Specs: External, PC, Mac, USB, 5080 lpi, 4 pin USB Type A, Mouse, Stylus, Digitizer, Wired, Electromagnetic, Black

The Bottom Line: With a beautiful and more functional new design, Wacom's Intuos4 tablet demonstrates that a lack of competition doesn't necessarily keep you from innovating.

Specs: External, PC, Mac, USB, 5080 lpi, 4 pin USB Type A, Mouse, Stylus, Digitizer, Wired, Electromagnetic, Black

The Bottom Line: With a beautiful and more functional new design, Wacom's Intuos4 tablet demonstrates that a lack of competition doesn't necessarily keep you from innovating.

Specs: External, PC, Mac, USB, 5080 lpi, 4 pin USB Type A, Mouse, Stylus, Digitizer, Wired, Electromagnetic, Black

The Bottom Line: With a beautiful and more functional new design, Wacom's Intuos4 tablet demonstrates that a lack of competition doesn't necessarily keep you from innovating.

Specs: External, PC, Mac, USB, 5080 lpi, 4 pin USB Type A, Mouse, Stylus, Digitizer, Wired, Electromagnetic, Black

The Bottom Line: A great input device if you do a lot of brush-based graphics, the Cintiq 12WX nonetheless has some awkward design aspects and a bit of a high price.

Specs: External, PC, Mac, USB, Display / video, 4 pin USB Type A, 29 pin combined DVI, 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15), Stylus, Digitizer, Wired, Electromagnetic, 12.1 in, 180 cd/m2, 1280 x 800

The Bottom Line: With its impressive bundled software package and comfortable pen and mouse, the Wacom Graphire4 4x5 package offers enough functionality for the price to seduce mouse-only users.

Specs: Microsoft Windows 2000, External, PC, Mac, USB, 4 pin USB Type A, Mouse, Stylus, Digitizer, Wired, Silver

The Bottom Line: Although a nearly $250 price tag accompanies this tablet, it lets anyone draw accurately on a computer, and its software package rocks.

Specs: External, PC, Mac, Mouse, Stylus, Digitizer, Wireless, Gray

The Bottom Line: Its $200-plus price tag might surprise you, but Wacom's new Intuos3 Tablet makes it easy for anyone to draw or write accurately on a computer.

Specs: External, PC, Mac, USB, 5080 dpi, 4 pin USB Type A, Mouse, Stylus, Digitizer, Wired, Electromagnetic

The Bottom Line: The Graphire3 is worth its steep price if you're heavily into editing digital images; otherwise, stick with a mouse.

Specs: External, PC, Mac, None, USB, 2032 lpi, 4 pin USB Type A, Mouse, Stylus, Digitizer, Wired, Sapphire blue