Over the past few weeks I have had the chance to play around with the Wacom Intuos 3, I have been planning to get a Bamboo for a while now but I would prefer to get photoshop first. I was lent the Wacom Intous 3 and have enjoyed it and actually found it as a feasible mouse replacement in some cases. I have played on it in Photoshop and Pixelmator, and have to say it really does do a great job and the pressure sensitivity is really effective.
The Tablet has buttons down each side and a thin, long, trackpad used for scrolling which I found to be ineffective. The
buttons we not much use earthier the only one I used was the 
scroll one which let you scroll on the main trackpad. The pen was comfortable and nicely shaped for a hand, the secondary click button was well placed but high up the same button was the double click whic h was hard to use and just seemed to be in the wrong place. The drivers are really useful and allow you to program (almost) any function to a button on the tablet or the pen. I did not have the mouse that come with the tablet, but to be honest I don’t think you need one you could spend most of your time using the tablet itself as a mouse.
