Drivers were fine, little to none jitter, good pressure sensitivity. The windows software for calibration was ugly but completely functional, you could set the sensitive area (great for widescreen), define hotspots etc. You could even set it to a "mouse mode" (relative movement) and play FPS games with it :)

Wacoms over here used to cost up to 20x as much (>$500). This made the DigiPro ones the no-brainers. At the time tablets were not common at all due to high prices. They still sell the exact same model for bargain prices, but intuos/bamboo have fallen to the $100-200 range.