Pfthfhhahhahaha... Excuse me? 80 dollars? With that money the best you can get is a 2 inch resistive touch screen.You gotta put at least 300 bucks into it. My Small Intuos 4 Wacom bamboo tablet cost around 320€ and its not even near "the best".
Intuos is more aimed at professional businesses.
They're still the very best for the job. It's not like software where instead of buying an expensive 600€ adobe program you can just "download Gimp for free which has the same features". If you want quality you have to aim high.
what is the difference between the Bamboo Splash and the Bamboo Connect?