User blog comment:Kyoupiruchi/My first (self made) AGG card/@comment-9839654-20140728194828/@comment-9063136-20140731033838

Cintiq is for the pros. The only people I know that has a Cintiq are working as concept artists for games. (and the Cintiq is usually provided by the company)

Stick with the Wacom brand tablets, they last very veeeeery long. I use a Wacom Intuos 3, I've had it for... 8 years? Before that I use a Wacom Graphire 2 (Bamboo is Graphire line's replacement) and I had that for 8 years before it died too.