It is nice to see when companies go the extra mile to add value to their products and services. Wacom is one such company, and they combine some interesting and well thought out features with the Graphire tablet. One great inclusion is the eraser on the cordless pen. If you make a mistake you can simply turn the pen over and erase away the error. This feature saves time and frustration while allowing long years of grade school conditioning to have a practical use.
Some tablets have separate holders, which tend to get lost in the desktop clutter.
On another note, one frustrating thing with some tablets is that the cord is too short. While drawing you want to have enough cord room to stretch out and draw, holding the tablet on your lap. The Wacom Graphire has only about one meter of cord so beware if you have a computer tucked away far under your desk. A work around for this is to pickup a USB hub, which would allow extended USB peripheral connectivity and give you more USB ports for other devices. The added free pen tools plug-ins for PhotoShop are nice and work well, but again you need a powerful computer to run them in real time.