Wacom Tablet & macbook

Hello,
I am very new to osX, I bought my macbook last week. None of my earlier OS 9 applications would run on osX. Its going to be hard enough getting photoshop, illustrator etc all over again, but I really cannot do without my Wacom tablet (graphire 2). Is there anyway that I could get that to work.
thanks,
asma

Hi,
I have a graphire4 & MacBook, instead of installing the tablet with the drivers that came in the tablet's installation CD, go to Wacom's site and download the new drivers they have there, they're Universal for sure and they should work.
I have a friend that uses a graphire3 with an intel based iMac and he had to do the same thing, and the tablet came back to life as it did with his old iBook.
Try and report back.

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