2012 Win8 Sketching Tablets

HP ElitePad 900

10-inch
1,280 x 800 (a little low)
tom-based Intel Clover Trail processor, buffered by up to 2GB of RAM
Wacom or N-Trig?

Asus 810

10.1-inch
1366 x 768 Super IPS+ display
Intel Medfield CPU Atom processor with 2GB of RAM
Wacom dual digitizer

I used the Galaxy Note 10.1 which has pressure sensitivity, but the processor-Android couldn’t keep up with fast smooth sketch movements or ellipses. Maybe this new round will Windows 8 stuff will be better. I think there’s something to this category of Dual UI. Simplicity when you need it, but full PC usability when you want it.

The HP is nice. too bad it’s enterprise only…

Dell Latitude 10

10.1 inches
1366 px x 768 px
Intel Cloverview 1.8 GHz 2 core
RAM size 2 GB
Wacom Stylus

The Dell Latitude 10 is a dockable Windows 8 tablet featuring a new Intel Atom processor and a Gorilla Glass-covered 10.1-inch IPS display with 10-point multitouch and support for an optional Wacom stylus. It has 128GB of internal storage, a 720p webcam and 8-megapixel rear camera, and Micro SIM support for mobile broadband.

I was wondering about that kind of thing too… how fast is fast enough?

is an Atom processor (vs a i5 or i7) going to be a pain if you’re doing a sketch with a lot of layers? Will it lag like the android tablet? or getting into a 50 or 100 mb photoshop file?

The other thing that’s fuzzy is screen resolution. What size is going to give you enough space in sketchbook pro around the toolbars without things getting too small?

The HP does look nice, but seems like it may be N-Trig… is that bad? I’ve only used Wacom

Last one for this Friday afternoon… please add to this, comments and other tablets coming out.

I’m trying to make a decision myself and I’ll just collect some of what I find here


HP Envy x2

11.6 inches
1366 px x 768 px
Intel Clover Trail Atom

The HP Envy x2 is a Windows 8 tablet with a detachable keyboard dock and has an 11.6-inch IPS touchscreen with optional stylus support and Beats Audio processing. It comes with a Clover Trail Intel Atom processor, 32GB and 64GB storage options, an HD webcam, and an 8-megapixel rear camera.

Is this Wacom?





Asus Vivo Tab ($800)

11.6-inch (1366-by-768 resolution) display, Intel Atom processor, 2 GB RAM, 64 GB storage, 8-megapixel rear camera, 2-megapixel front camera, micro-HDMI, NFC, weighs 1.49 pounds and measures 0.34 inches thick.
display includes a Wacom digitizer





Sony Vaio Duo 11 ($1,100)

Tech Specs: 11.6-inch (1920-by-1080 resolution) display, Intel Core i3 processor, 4 GB RAM, 128 GB of storage, HD webcam, two USB ports, HDMI out, VGA out, Ethernet port, SD/Memory Stick slot, weighs 2.8 pounds and measures 0.7 inches thick. includes a stylus with digitizer.

a cautious (2mm nibs) WOOHOO!

Edit: I woohoo’ed too early. It’s a 20-inch display, not a tablet-pc. Might still be interesting though…

Nice one Holtag… didn’t you get a Modbook or something - how’s that working out?

Here’s a similar product… a USB 13in wacom monitor w/ 256 pressure levels

sweet deal for $350 US

This one looks pretty good too

Lenovo ThinkPad Helix: i7 processor, 11.6-inch reversible screen, wacom stylus, detachable keyboard has extra battery power, arrives next month

!@#%* They all keep falling short in one way or another! #$%^&

I can’t dumb down to an 11.6" size for sketching, our 14.1" Toshiba Tecras are as small as I’d like to go, but I don’t see anyone venturing into the 14-15-or-above range, so I’ve been looking only at the largest stylus supported tablets.

Here are two good links for summaries of what’s out there (except for the CES stuff, hopefully they’ll add the new ones soon);

https://sites.google.com/site/davidsmithsprojects/other-projects/windows-8-tablets

I got word of the Asus Taichi (there’s an 11.6" version already available but I found out there’s a larger 13.3" version. The CONS include a wimpy graphics engine and the stylus is NTrig (so only 256 pressure levels);

http://taichi.asus.com/

Then this morning I got wind of a BIG tablet just for DESIGNERS, architects and photographers (huh??) The Panasonic 4K Tablet (that’s it’s model designation but might likely end up being its price too). 20" tablet (that’s not a typo), Core i7, lots of ram, NVidia GEForce graphics engine, stylus support…COOL;

Wow, seemingly everything we want - then I dug deeper, the CONS appear to be 2 hr battery life and a fake stylus (it uses the Anoto Live digital pen; http://www.anoto.com/lng/en/pageTag/page:products/mode/view/documentId/998/ and then the dream died.

We’re probably spoiled by our Tecra’s Wacom sensitivity - does anyone have good feedback for NTrig? If it was acceptable, then the Taichi 31 would be worth a look.

So freaking true.

It’s either a too-small screen with a nice ID, or a larger screen/0lder convertible with a less attractive look (that matters to me)

I’d like to hear a sketcher review of the N-Trig too. I’ve heard is that you have to have a battery in the stylus…

ATIV 11.6 Win 8 Slate vs. last year’s 13in Fujitsu Lifebook T902

Makes the lifebook seem like the solid choice, but it’s just not as s e x y …

And of course the MS Surface Tablet. Review here

3rd Gen Intel Core i5 Processor with Intel HD Graphics 4000
4GB RAM—Dual Channel Memory
10.6-inch ClearType Full HD Display
1920 x 1080 resolution

Cost? Date?

Wow - 27 in Tablet! No Stylus (could have one?)… 27" MULTI-USER, MULTIMODE, MULTITOUCH TABLE PC.

IBM IDEA CENTER

I’d assume if it’s a standard capacitive screen you could use any off the shelf capacitive stylus, but it won’t have a Wacom digitizer.

Regarding the big Lenovo (and a similar 27" SONY) as soon as I saw the commercial of the little girl using a kids-paintbrush on the screen I was on SONY.com and chatting with tech support, only to be told it would support a capacitive stylus (like trenching-in tiny sprinkler pipes with a bulldozer).

The Fujitsu is like our Tecras, except I guess the newest Fujitsu’s have a touchscreen so you could at least enjoy Windows 8 touch experience on a bulky convertible - but if I’m not mistaken, none of the convertibles are available anymore with Nvidia graphics, so we’ve kept the Tecras up and running for the time being instead.

There is a Euro unit I’ve posted about before, the Paceblade PM240;
http://tablet-news.com/2012/03/09/cebit-2012-paceblade-pm240-windows-8-tablet-uses-core-i7-processor-video/
http://www.paceblade.com/index.php?products_details=2
So far I haven’t found any US electronics distributors carrying this but I’ll be in Barcelona in March and plan to visit their distributor (I might throw a sketchbook pro installer on a jump drive and see if they’ll let me test it out).
PROS; Core i7, lots of ram, big HD, 2 batteries, 12.1", Wacom stylus, docking port, can order one spec’d as you like.
CONS; hefty, not sure of the graphics engine, ship to the EU in case of service?

That Panasonic 20" is getting my hopes up (even though it is an N-trig stylus).
http://dvice.com/archives/2013/01/panasonic-shows-2.php

@Travissimo, my modbook has been gathering dust. I was using it quite a bit at the beginning but the bezel around the screen and the thickness of the tablet made sketching pretty frustrating. The size of the screen feels pretty cramped too.

A bit late to the party, but may have some useful info!

Have been looking into this for the past few weeks, as my Lenovo X60t is on its last legs now, which isn’t great, especially if you just want to have a mess around sketching in an evening. My partner has an iPad, but I have never really gotten to grips using a stylus with it due to the lack of palm rejection. What I am really after is a windows 8 tablet…

After a lot of digging I found that the Samsung S Pen is indeed a wacom stylus, just rebranded. This means that pretty much any of the new Samsung tablets, as long as they come with an S Pen, should be fairly good with sketching. The problem then becomes software, as the android version of SBP is fairly paired down in my experience.

The Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro comes across as a bit slugish in the video that @Travisimo posted, but this is only the standard version using an atom processor - in my opinion the atom is a bit slow to handle SBP with lots of layers. They do however have a pro version, which has increased ram etc. This is currently going for about £1k GBP. That may change things.
It sounds like a real solid contender in my view, but the reviews of the accompanying keyboard are rubbish - so it would have to be a sketch only device rather than a laptop that you can sketch on.

The Fujitsu T902 and its counterpart that splits apart both have wacom enabled stylus’, however despite good reviews in the US, there are no dates on when it will appear in the UK, and like mentioned before, it isn’t as nice looking or as easy to pick up and sling around.

My main question at the moment is regarding the MS Surface Pro - some of the digital arts forums have posted a response from Wacom saying that they do make the screen on the Pro version - would that make it a contender? Has anyone had any hands on experience?

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