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My girlfriend is an amazing artist. She paints, sketches, sculpts... She's good at everything. Her birthday is coming up and I want to get her into graphic design. She loves photoshop, but she uses the touchpad on her laptop. Instead of buying her a stupid optical mouse, I want to get her a USB graphics tablet. Does anyone have any experience/recommendations in these? Price range is $100-250, is that reasonable?

I'm talking about something like this:

Thats very reasonable I would suggest the larger size like 10" or 11"
the pen like in the picture is fantastic, its pressure sensitve and makes it just like drawing with a pencil or paint brush, flip it around and it turns into an erasure

Let me know what you finally go with. I've been looking at one of these for years, just couldn't ever justify the cost. But now that my girlfriend (just like yours) the artist is around I could see it getting a lot more use..

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I got a response at deviant art telling me to go with Wacom. Apparently they're the original and its what they specialize in. After that, you just have to narrow it down to your price range I decided to go with the Wacom Graphire 3, which ironically is pictured above. I found it at TigerDirect for $159.99.