Are you sure? Wacoms, especially intuos series are one of the most used by professionals. Though price is a bit high. Something like Genius has good enough specs and probably is sufficient for hobby usage. If I were in your shoes and didn't have to worry about budget, I would definitely go with intuos series (though you should research details, cause some ppl prefer series 4 over 5), and if I had really good budget, I would try and see if using Cintiq is easier than normal tablet. Yet again, some professionals still prefer to use normal tablet, like intuos 4, over Cintiq. Depends on how you draw.
But otherwise Genius F610 with 2048 sensitivity isn't that bad, and its really cheap. There are many other smaller brands with, as I heard, decent quality, but I didn't use them myself so I can't recommend much.