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I’ll just pack a Wacom tablet too so I can draw and write on my laptop and leave my iPad at home then?
by wlesieutre 6y ago
I’ll just pack a Wacom tablet too so I can draw and write on my laptop and leave my iPad at home then?
- Retric 6y agoFor Windows you just need a laptop that supports the pen protocol. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/component-guidelines/pen-protocol-implementation https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/com... For Apple you might need a Wacom tablet.
- wlesieutre 6y agoI used to have a Surface, it’s fine if you want to doodle occasionally but it really doesn’t measure up to an iPad for its overall tablet experience
- Retric 6y agoThere are better alternatives to an old Surface.
- wlesieutre 6y agoSure, and the 2020 iPad Pro is better than the 2016 iPad Pro that I switched to initially. The problem on Windows’ side is the software. Unless Microsoft has found a way to get developers on board with their own modern UI paradigm, you get a good tablet experience maybe 10% of the time. And their tablet friendly UI sucks even when Microsoft does it themselves. For example, the new disk manager, which is objectively worse in every way than the old one except for having big touch targets: https://mspoweruser.com/this-is-the-new-windows-10-modern-disk-management-tool/ https://mspoweruser.com/this-is-the-new-windows-10-modern-di...