I purchased one of these with no clue how a drawing tablet really had worked. I did not do my research but was pleased by this tablet. It works great. The tablet has a plastic smooth feel it doesnt have any special amazing smooth feel like the wacom.I own a windows xp with 512 ram and it does jump a bit so its a little eh. At work I use a Vista with 2gbs of ram, the tablet works terrific without any jumps or pauses. If you are a beginner than go for it. Take not that this does not have an eraser.If you have money for a Wacom do it. Wacom tablets have a better feel.If you wondering what programs I have ran the genius mousepen under they are:Photoshop cs2, cs3Adobe Flash cs2, cs3Fireworks cs3Corel Painter 8All these programs work great with the tablet.