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Tablet gives me the best control and is much faster because of the system with absolute points. I also think that my elbow is very happy for the wacom. The only bad thing is right click, but i live with that.

I actually threw that wacom mouse away and use regular Genius optic mouse.
I switched to tablet two years ago because my wrist hurt. But when I play computer games I use mouse. It’s impossible to play games with tablet. But to tell you the truth my wrist still hurts – less but still. I coud use some device that would read my minds :). I saw some videos with these things that are actually being developed so it’s not that much sci-fi.
I just wonder if Wacom Cintique is better for wrist than regular tablet pad. Has anybody such experience?

it took me a solid 60 hours of use to finally break-through using the wacom tablet. I wont lie, Its awful for that first week, but 11-years later i’ll never go back. I’ve felt zero wrist pain since. Its worth the annoyance at first. It gets better.

Mmm… what if you are left-handed? Not very ergonomic for 1/9 of the population.

I have MX 1000 at home, but at my job I only use Wacom and I’m used to it. The only thing that all ways gets on my nerves with all graphic tablets is the right-mouse-button. Pressing that stupid little button on the pen all ways shakes my pen to much so I loose my aim. With time it will get better. I hope. I’ll by new mouse because the battery in MX 1000 is not working properly any more. I was thinking about G9.

The thing with cordless mice is that they loose their juice exactly the time when you need them the most. When you work 4 days strait.
Will you put mouse on it’s stand? The red light thingy is on. Let it suck up some juice.
No way, man! There’s no time!
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I’ve never committed serious time to learning with my bluetooth Wacom. Being left handed when drawing, but right-handed with a mouse – it’s a total pain to try and learn Photoshop shortcuts with the other hand when using the Wacom!!

But I’m sure it’s doable.

A 3D (Maya) artist friend of mine made the mouse-to-Wacom switch a few years back and has never moved a mouse since.

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Jayden, I’m in the same boat. Left handed in everything except mousing, I think I picked it up from a combination of gaming and my family’s computer being set to right handed as I was growing up.

I’d love to have a wacom (a new one that is. I have an old broken one that’s just too big) but I don’t have the room. Living in a small apartment, a year out of school with a tiny laptop desk. I’ve got just enough room for a mouse, and it’s a Logitech Nano. The small size doesn’t bother me, and I’m always going out to coffee shops anyway, so it’s nice to have something small to pack up and carry away.

I think after this mouse I may be a logitech user for a long long time. I love them.

After having used an Intous 3 for a couple years, I feel fairly limited every time I go back using a mouse in PS. Especially when drawing. So I guess it’s like everyone’s already said. It takes a while to get used to, but it’s all worth it!

I think the perfect combination is Logitech ergonomic mouse + wacom tablet when you need to do some illustration or work with phtoshop. It takes one or two days to get used to the tablet, but it’s worth it

Without my tablet i’d be hopeless when making certain illustrations. But I don’t use it for day-to-day navigation. It’s just like a real pen; if you haven’t handwritten anything for a while your hand hurts when writing for a while again. Though my cheap Logitech mouse isn’t 100% ergonomically correct either. And the plastic grip layers are coming off the thing. Maybe I need to invest in a more expensive one such as this.

What about keyboards? My keyboard’s ancient (and bore the brunt when my flatscreen accidentally toppled over – that was a scary moment). But I like both mouse and keyboard wired.

I break all the rules…I just use the touch pad on my macbook pro!

I have thought about using a tablet but don’t know if its worth the money to try something that there is 50/50 chance I won’t like.

Recently switched to wacom, and I really love it. For design it makes total sense, we all started with pencils anyway. I keep it in front of my keyboard and leave the mouse off to the side for easy access. Sometimes I’ll even use it working with html but usually keyboard and mouse are just easier when I don’t need as much control.

I’ve been using a wacom tablet for almost 10 years and love it. I know it’s tough looking up at the monitor while drawing on the tablet, but trust me it’s so dope once you get the handle. I’ve got the ghetto version 99 bucks and it still has 2000 points of pressure. I do have a high tech mouse, but it’s no match when it comes to the power of the tablet when drawing.

The Old High Tech Red Neck. :)

I had a very hard time using a tablet at first, but got the hang of it. I can’t do any crisp masking without the pen. I don’t require anything crazy in terms of specs for a tablet, so I just recently bought a Bamboo at roughly $200 (I think) and it’s really pulling it’s weight for pressure settings. At the end of the day it’s not the best out, but it’s all I need.

When I am not masking or painting, I use a Kensington Expert Mouse.

Scott- What do you mean by “move around?” For instance, does the MX1100 allow you to scroll side to side at 1600% without a ton of processing? Maybe I misunderstood your comment.

Have you guys seen this new product http://www.candledragon.com

This I think will bring some heavy competition to the Wacom tablets.

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Juan –

Just checked out the candledragon. The name lacks creativity, but it looks like an amazing tablet. Thanks for the heads up.

Most of the time I use my tablet pen for art and my mouse for things where I need to switch between mouse & keyboard quickly. (Like IMing.)

I say “art” because I don’t really “draw” per se much on the computer, since it doesn’t really have the same “feel” as drawing on paper. The “not seeing your hand as you draw” thing doesn’t bother me as much as how sometimes if I have a lot of layers visible, the pen sometimes breaks up my lines or doesn’t draw curves correctly. Sad but true. So I use it more for the pen tool or to move or resize things in Photoshop.

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Wacom tablet all the way. Never a problem with repetitive stress syndrome, more natural feel, and much faster to work with. Most people don’t give it enough time and switch back to a mouse before they really get how much faster it can be. Mice are an archaic solution to input devices. There is better technology out there! The only thing I still use them for is audio editing but everything else goes to the tablet. Even internet browsing. Give them a real chance and you will never go back.