Unclear on Bluetooth vs. Airport

Bluetooth and wireless are two different technologies entirely, with two different purposes. Airport Wireless is based on the principles of ethernet, an age old method of allowing computer to share services with other computers, and the basis of the entire internet.

On the other hand, bluetooth is a newer protocol. If you think of the difference between ethernet and USB, you can start to get the idea of the difference between Airport Wireless and Bluetooth Wireless. Ethernet is to connect your computers together over short or long distances, while USB is designed to let your devices like mice, keyboards, cell phones talk to your computer.

If you wanted to connect your bluetooth tablet to your computer, you can get a small USB dongle for bluetooth. The apple store sells them, if you seach for "dlink" it will show up as the second seach result, however they are also sold by many other companies.

airport (aka wifi) gives you a full-blown tcp/ip network connection, at up to 54 megabits/second for the current model, with enough range and power to give you access within a house/small office

bluetooth is a short range, low speed, special purpose network, often used to link devices that don't need the performance/capability of wifi, it is commonly used to sync phones/pdas to computers, for cordless keyboards, mice, and tablets such as the wacom you have

you cannot use wifi to connect your wacom

the cheapest option for you is probably to get a d-link dbt-120, this is a small bluetooth adaptor that just connects to a usb port on your mac to give it bluetooth capability

these days my mac has it built in, but i had two of these (on different macs) before that, and they worked perfectly, also a colleague used one without problems

there was (probably still is) a mac-specific update to the adaptor's firmware, when i did the update i had no trouble but i've seen a few postings by people who did

maybe a fault, maybe bad luck

the low-risk approach imho is to have no other usb devices on the same port and leave the mac in peace until the update completes (it isn't quick)

bluetooth is not the most robust of technologies, and the choices vendors make about which features they will/won't support doesn't help either, so you'll probably have no trouble finding horror stories about any device using it!

i've got no qualms about recommending the d-link, i still have one on the shelf as a back-up