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She loves it.
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Cool that was one that's come up on Google as a good alternative
Been trying to get the wife to buy one for 2 years now, I think given the amount of paper we have around the studio with drawings on (in the thousands) she's finally seeing the advantages to it.
It would certainly speed up the design process once she is used to the software and will certainly make organisation easier
You definitely want an active pen for this sort of lark.
I stayed with Apple in the end and bought an iPad Pro which I love.
Did I mention I really wanted the HP?
Really.
The yoga 920 looks pretty good. Going to go pc world tomorrow so she can spent half hour trying them out, so by the time we leave their screens will be full of roses and skulls
Only trouble with the folding designs is I can see the keyboard being a pain when it's behind, which is how I imagine it will be used most of the time, so maybe screen will have to be detachable which limits options a lot
The Spectre x360 is great, but the key differentiator between it and cheaper models is that it has the right gubbins in the touchscreen to be able to handle proper pen input for drawing. I forget what the device is, but it's pretty much critical to the whole endeavour.
And, naturally, only expensive laptops seem to have it.
Can she live with a normal pen-and-graphics-tablet arrangement? If so, just make sure you get a laptop with good colour reproduction and good resolution. Pretty much anything in the £600-900 range should do just fine.
Also, bear in mind that current-gen i5 CPUs are easily the match of previous-gen i7s. Don't be scared of going for the i5 at all, and if it helps you save money...
We've tried the drawijg tablet thing before, the disconnect between hand and eye really annoyed her, also looking for something she can just pickup, take home and carry on working on without the need to grab cables and other bits.
It is exceptionally light though.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
I have a Surface Pro 2 and I've tried to use CorelDraw on it and it's an utter failure. Where shall we start.
Screen is far to small, touch is not good in Win10 , loss of access to modifier keys (Alt, Ctrl, Shift etc), right mouse button becomes awkward.
So the question is, what software is she going to use? I suppose Painter might be a decent bet but still not sure how it works with touch. PS isn't really a drawing prog. Illustrator meh....the new apps from Xara look promising but are still in their infancy and lacking basic features.