Dude, technology shopping is hard. I spent hours today ruling out graphic tablets bc they don't work standalone, and the only one I found that does I'm not fond of. So I thought maybe they can hook up to my phone, but nah my phone is too old for it too work. Now my plan is to pick out a drawing tablet for my parents to get me, then with my birthday/graduation money buy a laptop to connect it to. It's about $250 for each. So now I need to price check laptops, look for reviews, see if what I like actually functions with the tablets, price check tablets, look for reviews on those, and yeeah. Oodles of fun but hopefully it'll all be worth it in the end.