This is my first tablet so I did not have enough experience to compare: my opinion will therefore be in absolute beginner I am. Beautiful tablet very simple design and not overrun with useless buttons. Getting tough hand early but I am just too used to a mouse alone: managing style my fingers, and my wrist lying on the tablet is a perilous exercise a little with apps that close some brutally because I clicked with my finger without realizing it. This would have been the same, I think, with all the tablets. There is also a very good tutorial provided which allows for tablet learning. So I embarked on my first photo editing and I feel the difference in accuracy of a mouse. So I am satisfied with this material. By cons, unlike other reviews, I was not able to recover PhotoshopElement and ArtRage software advertised in the description: they are not present on the supplied disc; when I connect to the site specified in the box ([...])), I came across a beautiful white page with the Wacom logo and I'm not going away. And when I recorded the product on the Wacom web site, I could download that Wacom software. Moreover, the small leaf in English provided in the box indicates that this offer external software is only for tablets purchased in America. So do not expect too much these additional software ...