<p>Wacom has the Bamboo series for home and light use and the Intuos for more serious work. The Intuos has higher resolution among other things but is more expensive ($170-200 versus $60-80). </p>
<p>If money is no object get the LCD tablet - our designers use it ($2k) and is out of this world good :-).</p>
<p>I’ve seen the Intuos in action with Corel I think, you can do things like brushstrokes like paint and all that. Will it work as well for engineering and note taking? no idea, I am not big on note taking on computers anyway. </p>
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