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Man, I love this thing so much, it's hard to prove I'm not a shill. Can shills swear? S***-munch. There. I'm no shill. Seven years back, I bought a Wacom Graphire 4, which was basically my perfect tablet. It was small, easy-to-use, came with a wireless, battery-less mouse, and was built like a Soviet tank. To give you an idea, it's still not dead. Unfortunately, Wacom's help is. A year or two ago, I started having terrible luck with drivers. Wacom went crazy and decided all their tablets should have the same driver, and nixed any features that weren't incredibly vague. One of the features that didn't make the cut was my tablet's pen calibration settings. Even better, the driver sucks with Windows 7, and competes with the default driver (which surprisingly sucks more). The only driver that didn't have this problem is a Graphire driver from the XP days, but that's a whole different can of worms. So I declared my tablet obsolete and shopped for a new Wacom. Turns out, they ALL have similar problems except for the newest Intuos line. That one finally got a good Windows 7/8 driver, but the rest are SOL. Okay, now onto this tablet. It works BEAUTIFULLY. Despite my concerns, I set it up perfectly the first time, and it's been an absolute dream to use. The surface and pen feel like you're gliding along lightly buttered glass (or nice card-stock for a less weird analogy), and the 8 programmable buttons work as intended. I had two worries with those buttons: 1) I'm left-handed, and didn't want to accidentally trigger them, and 2) for all I knew, they'd be decorative. Not an issue. Haven't even gotten close to accidentally pressing a button. They're very obvious, and too deeply-recessed to push without meaning to. Each one has been easy to program/use, and responds accordingly in both Photoshop and GIMP. I haven't tried doing anything to the 16 programmable hot-cells along the top, but they're off by default, and I suppose they're nice to have. Oh, and the pen-sensitivity and curve. You can adjust them and test them out in the tablet settings. You can also decide how much of the tablet you want to register (making it a small square instead of a wide rectangle, for instance), and map out where the tablet reaches. I have it set so an inch in on all sides registers as the edge of my monitor. Makes navigating around my drawing programs a little bit more fluid. Okay, now a quick tip. INSTALLING/SETUP: - Get rid of all other drivers (No Wacom drivers, disable Windows Tablet driver, Pen Flicks, etc.) - DO NOT plug in tablet until Huion's drivers are completely installed. - Install drivers from Huiontablet.com/download/ - Restart your PC - When it restarts, TURN OFF INTERNET. This prevents Windows from accidentally triggering its plug-and-play driver. - Plug in your tablet. Wait a bit, and you'll see a little tablet icon in the quick-launch bar. That's your tablet driver/settings. - TURN ON INTERNET. That's it. It should be working smoothly from then on out.