NVIDIA Shield Tablet - Built in Pressure control

slipsius

A friend of mine got this for xmas, so I was playing around with it. I thought I`d pass it along, as I have seen several different threads asking about tablets for drawing and such. I was only able to try out the built in drawing tool, but it worked fantastic!! Im not sure if you can get photoshop, but the built in one is really nice. comes with a stylus that nicely tucks away into the tablet

Also, has built in hdmi, and can stream full 1080p and all that stuff. All for around $300, which is certainly a lot better than most tablets out there. Pretty good price, if you ask me. Especially for what you`re getting with it. The thing feels nice and solid too. I never felt like I was going to break it, even though I`m a big guy, and tend to feel like that a lot with new devices.

Give it a gander!

http://shield.nvidia.com/gaming-tablet/

iadagraca

Hm seems like a good price, pen doesn't seem to have much of a tip but it does have pressure so thats nice.

I'd try sketchbook or painter, photoshop isn't much for drawing on the tablets.

slipsius

The pen actually does have a nice tip. Its got a fat side with a fine tip at the end. And yes, using the fat side draws a fatter line, if youd rather that than pressing harder

ZacD

It's definitely a great deal, even better if you have an Nvidia GPU already, I've been wanting to try streaming games to my TV downstairs.

oXYnary

Its not real pressure control though. It just sees the size of the pressure area as larger with the soft end of the capacitive stylus.

Well ok its a "form" of pressure control I guess you could argue.

http://www.greenbot.com/article/2462889/shield-tablet-review-the-best-tablet-for-gamers-but-not-for-everyone-else.html

Fuiosg

there's actually affordable tablets that have wacom digitizers in them, like the asus vivotab note 8 and dell venue 8 pro. I'm just learning about this myself, don't know what others have it.

Never thought much of tablets but am curious how useful they could be as an artist's tool.

iadagraca

Fuiosg wrote: »

there's actually affordable tablets that have wacom digitizers in them, like the asus vivotab note 8 and dell venue 8 pro. I'm just learning about this myself, don't know what others have it.

Never thought much of tablets but am curious how useful they could be as an artist's tool.

I own the vivotab note 8 and i love it but it had kind of a rough launch. Not sure if the issues are fixed now but it had a problem with the tablet randomly not detecting the pen.

I don't know if it's been resolved yet but i need to send mine back a second time and haven't yet. *proceeds to check for software updates*

here's the forums where you can find tons of info.

http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/threads/asus-vivotab-note-8-tips-tricks.61340/

The most impressive thing is people are having this issue but still love the device XD

Might try that DIY fix though...

I plan on getting a surface 2 to replace it though, the performance on the vivotab is great but due to the 2gb of ram i can only really use one program at a time and i can't use photoshop for painting (very jittery).

But Clip Studio and other programs have been great.