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The iPad Pro is better than the Surface in terms of the digitizer, but not as good as Wacom.
by alphonsegaston 9y ago
The iPad Pro is better than the Surface in terms of the digitizer, but not as good as Wacom.
- omikun 9y agoWhere did you hear this? From my personal experience and watching some youtube reviews from concept artists/illustrators, the Pencil beats Wacom hands down.
- vilts 9y agoIndeed, I switched from Wacom Cintiq to iPad Pro when it came out. So far it's the best drawing experience I've ever had on a digital device. I also had one of the Surface Pros with ntrig digitizer. It was near impossible to draw properly. Quick sketching is fine, but slow and precise lines were impossible. Cursor just jumped around and was unusable.
- alphonsegaston 9y agoI’m an illustrator, have an iPad Pro and a high-end Wacom. Work with a lot of people in the animation industry. No one is regularly using iPads for anything besides sketching/toying with ideas. If Apple made a big push to improve their hardware, get full blown Photoshop with Adobe’s brush engine, this could conceivably change. Everything’s too piecemeal right now though. File management is still terrible, Photoshop brushes are only available in Adobe’s terrible apps, lots of Bluetooth buginess from app to app, inconsistent UI patterns etc. The newest Procreate update and Affinity designer are pretty cool, but it’s still not there yet.
- dpark 9y agoI have a Thinkpad Yoga with a Wacom digitizer. I am distinctly unimpressed. Disclosure: Microsoft employee, so arguably biased toward the Surface.
- alphonsegaston 9y agoYeah, Microsoft is not unique in being unable to sucessfully integrate Wacom tech. And Wacom's own portables leave a lot to be desired as computing devices. It's a hard problem.