ZURI wrote:Aloys, those nice ones make me drool. I'd love to have a $200 tablet, but I don't think one is in my budget. Perhaps someday....
Honnestly, unless you are a proffessionnal artist a $80 tablet will probably cover 90% of your needs.
What more expensive tablets will get you is:
1) Larger size
2) Buttons on the tablet. And I agree with Linger, those are really not needed, you never have enough of them anyway so you might as well use your keyboard.
3) Better pressure sensitivity.. They (Wacom) keep talking about it like it's the holy grail, but 90% of people (even professionnal artists) can't tell the difference above 1024 levels..
4) Stylus tilt sensitivty. Only really useful for specific airbrush uses.
5) Stylus rotation sensitivity. This one is more useful, but again you can live without it.
As for the size question this is actually pretty subjective, most people are more at ease with large tablets but there are others (like me) who enjoy smaller tablets...