My company bought this tablet for me about 6-8 months ago. I have tried using it over and over, but the control is horrible. Not only will the mouse and pen drain battery life incredibly fast, but you get very poor response from the pen. The pen frequently "jumps" and "jitters." I could be working in Illustrator CS2, or Freehand MX, drawing a continuous line and the pen would jump to the upper left hand corner of the screen, randomly. When and if you ever got a pen line completed, you have to go back with the mouse and clean it up. Kind of defeats the purpose in my opinion. There is no way you could ever possibly get work done with it.You definitely get what you pay for. Today, I finally went to the store and bought just a 4x5 Wacom Graphire4 and the quality and response is incredible. Please take my advice and buy a Wacom Graphire4, or spend a little more for Wacom Graphire4 6x8.