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This use case has been around for at least several years, but it's a niche market. I'm not a professional, but to me drawing is what I consider a serious hobby,
by phaus 14y ago
This use case has been around for at least several years, but it's a niche market. I'm not a professional, but to me drawing is what I consider a serious hobby, so a few years ago I bought an Asus EP121 Slate.
Almost everyone likes to doodle from time to time, so I'm hoping that Microsoft's push for tablets with actual digitizers in them catches on. So far, the devices aren't exactly where I'd like them to be, but there's definitely some progress being made. Ideally, I'd like to see Apple (the company that claims to be for creative types) implement a true Wacom digitizer into the iPad. Drawing with a capacitive stylus is like cutting off the tips of your fingers and trying to type. Every attempt at a pressure sensitive workaround for the iPad has thus far been absolutely horrible. If Apple just got over their dislike of the stylus, and implemented a proper digitizer into the iPad, probably every artist in the country would buy one to play around with.
- tripzilch 14y ago> Drawing with a capacitive stylus is like cutting off the tips of your fingers and trying to type. Never tried but I can totally imagine :) From my experiences with iPads, I'd compare it to fingerpainting, but I guess your description is more .. vivid :) But I get from the article, and how the author seems pretty satisfied with it, that the Surface uses a different, better technology for t6hat?
- phaus 14y agoYea, the Surface uses the ideal solution, a Wacom digitizer.
- slantyyz 14y agoThe Samsung Note series of phones and tablets also use the Wacom, as does the Atom-based Thinkpad Tablet 2. I was considering the Note 10.1 and ThinkPad Tablet 2 for their pens and stumbled on this comparison last week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncegf0Em7m4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncegf0Em7m4 It does appear that the more horsepower your tablet has, the better suited it is to doing pen-based art. It's pretty clear in the video that a full-powered desktop CPU is better than the Atom and the mobile CPU for sketching.
- phaus 14y agoIf the Thinkpad Tablet 2 had been released on schedule, I'd probably have grabbed one of those. With the Barnes and Noble gold discount, it would be pretty close to the cost of the iPad. Unfortunately, it was delayed multiple times.
- nooneelse 14y agoThe fingerpainting analogy is what I use as a springboard when someone belittles styluses and good digitizers. Babies and kids fingerpaint, adults use brushes and pens.