Amen, Jayse. Sometimes I think the only reason I do paying work is to buy more gadgets. So I can do more work.
@Steve - yeah I know it's a hunk of plastic. For $80 I'm not exactly expecting a solid milled block of titanium.
@evan & mathias - yeah the cintiq is pretty awesome for that, but if I'm using both, I have all the macros on it already mapped, plus I don't find the touch strips to be super accurate for fine control. Additionally I'm thinking it would be nice to map the the controller to zooming/panning the timeline with a function switch.