So... I learnt the hard way that you shouldn't drum on your desk with your Wacom pen. I actually decided to replace my tablet entirely (a friend is going to buy it and try to fix the pen) with a Wacom Pen & Touch.

I'm assuming though that the touch functionality won't work with Skritter as you can't 'write' with the finger movement? Is anyone else using the pen & touch - if so what do you think of it?

I have the Wacom Pen and Touch and like it, but I only use the Pen input.

I disable Touch input, which just makes the tablet into a big touchpad, and interferes with pen input. Using Touch for writing requires a double-tap to start a stroke, which is very tedious. Also I already have a touchpad on my laptop. If Touch mode on the Bamboo was more like the Pen mode (ie absolute positioning: a spot on the tablet maps to one and only one spot on the screen) rather than like a touchpad (relative positioning) maybe it would be more useful: I'd still have to double-tap to start a stroke, but I wouldn't have to also move the cursor to where I want to write.

You can buy a replacement pen for the Wacom, you know - Amazon's got them, and I know I've seen them on TaoBao if you're in China.

Yeah I know, but I've been thinking about getting a Wacom Touch for a while anyway.

the touch can be a bit annoying at times (regardless of whether its windows 7, xp or osx ) - have a bamboo touch and pen at work and an intuous at home

writing on both the pen touch and intuous is better than my tablet as their surfaces give better feedback rather than the slick glass.

Prefer to use the touch on my macs rather than windows 7.

Where as onenote on windows is microsofts best ever appplication!

I find the touch part pretty poor. I have a pen and touch, but if I were to buy it again, I'd get the pen only version.

I have an old mac laptop (before multitouch), and its trackpad is still miles better than the Wacom. I guess that's probably drivers or something. At any rate, I don't use it and have also turned it off.

To reflect what others above are saying, pretty much everything I've heard about the Pen and Touch has indicated that the touch part isn't really worth bothering with. I've only got a Pen, so I don't have personal experience, but it's worth considering that a lot of people seem to hold this opinion when your options have a pretty big ($30-50) swing.

You might be able to pick up a decent pen and touch second hand from ebay.
I got mine which had hardly been used for $61 + p&h and an intuous GD-1212-U for $66

Definitely wouldn't pay full price for the pen and touch.

I'd rate the wacom touch as worse than Apples magic trackpad

Ok, got the touch now. Yeah, the touch really isn't great... I'd describe it as almost usable. Well, 人生就是如此...