Nisis Easypen USB Graphics Tablet 12x9

It basically performs as you would expect it to, i.e. you use the pen for drawing pictures and spraying your digital paint, as opposed to using a mouse in conjunction with your creative software.

Overall the Nisis is a fine tool for the price, but it has the following problems and glitches that are minor:

1) The mouse is generally okay, but it has rough edges around the outer casing and can be a little annoying.

2) Pen pressure - if you hold down for too long and too hard, the active window starts to shake from side to side.

3) The tablet works with most commercial applications such as Photoshop, Flash, Freehand, etc but it has trouble working with open source apps such as the GIMP

4) The Function Buttons that are labelled on tablet - THE TEXT FAR TOO SMALL! to read.

5) Unfortunately No Transparency Sheet for doing underlay tracing is included with this model. Most annoying.

6) Sensitivity - As pointed out the pen sensitivity is not the greatest and the Mouse click emulation on the Pen .I.E. Right Mouse button clicking, is pretty clumsy.

Hopes this helps.

But, thankfully I took a chance, and bought this one, and I can tell you.. It has not disappointed me, this tablet dose the job well, and what a price !!!

It dose come with a mouse that works in the same manner as the pen, but to tell you the truth I don't use it, I mean I already have a decent optical mouse, and the mouse you get with this, is not so sleek, the buttons are hard to press, and the movement is not smooth.. but I wisent bothered, I didn't get a tablet to use a mouse anyway..

So the tablet its self, the driver software is great stuff, lets you adjust the drawing area, also has pre programmed menus, i.e. there is a space on the top of the tablet that you can click, to launch programs..

The tablet its self is 100% fine, all though they could have moved the buttons from the pen to the left bottom on the tablet.. since pressing buttons while drawing with a pen is never a good idea.. or not drawing for that matter, its like trying to aim a bow, and dance and the same time, just not a good idea!

The pen thickness is a tad thick, it's the size of a marker pen, but it feels ok.. the 2 buttons on the mouse, are rather pointless.. coupled with the not so good pressure tip on the pen.. the pressure is not smooth.. ie from light to dark the gradient is to quick.. like its hard to do accurate shades, because you press a little, to get faint drawing, and press a little more and it dose too much..

I have to congratulate the people who made this on its accuracy of movement with the pen, the movement is very elegant and smooth... you draw, and the curves and lines are wonderful..

Overall, and, despite these little things, This tablet for this price pleased me well, I would buy another no problem, you cannot go wrong.. If you want a tablet look no further..