Sometimes I wonder about this myself. I probably should have picked up a bamboo myself but for some reason I chose to stand out for a big kahuna tablet. Maybe because I fear that if I settle now it will be a hard to justify getting it later. As result I'm still working with paper and pencil for hand drawn stuff and using a mouse for everything else. I am getting close to picking up a Cintiq though so that is exciting (at least for me). I just hope I love it as much as I think I will. I really need to find a place where I can go test out these things but failing in that I'm just not willing to settle. If I am going to go at doing this seriously I think I should go for it all the way. Of course, I haven't made nearly enough from art to pay for this but eventually I should cover it. I'm sure that somewhere in this is some personality flaw of mine that is shining forth but whatever.