I bought a Surface Pro 2 a while back and it's been awesome! I love starting paintings on it because I can work whenever Im inspired. But I do like to finish work on my home PC because the screen size limits my ability to do fine details. It's a good and bad thing. I think painting with a smaller window helps you set the…
There's videos of baytrail running zbrush, this is cherry trail and is said to have twice the performance graphically as baytrail. Atoms still aren't serious work CPUs but they are becoming much more respectable. What's nice is the sheer portability, 1.3 pounds, 10.8". To me it's more attractive than a surface pro 3 since…
wtf is a media center? this is a useless marketing term. my bookshelf is a media center, so is my phone, and my tablet. if im going to buy another media center that is two big to be portable how is the xbox one even remotely more compelling then a pc? on top of a media center my pc is useful for work and its totally open…
Find a retailer and try them out. Optimal size is personal. Do you have the desk space for a large tablet? Do you draw from the arm or from the fingers? I have a 9x12 at home, and a 6x11 to carry around with me. The 6x11 is a nice compromise between comfy drawing and portability, but I prefer working on the 9x12. One of my…
The last one I saw with a GPU was the HP tx2500. It had an ATI HD3000 in it. I know the new tablets are expensive but frankly drawing directly on the screen has definite advantages. I can sketch and sculpt all day on my old TC4400 and it just feels natural. There is an odd disconnect when using my Intuos on my desktop.…
Another option, which I haven't tried yet myself, is using something like this to see your PC's desktop on your iPad. So you could basically work within Photoshop/zBrush/Whatever as you would, only on a portable screen. The possibility sounds awesome to me personally. If there was a tablet that was a bit bigger than the…
Yeah I was also looking at the companion. I thought it was a graphics tablet that connected to your pc but is it a stand alone machine? There's no shops that stock those around here so I can't exactly go take a look either to see what they're like. I just wanted something portable that would handle zbrush quite well to…
This is probably of no use to you, but I like the idea behind it. [ame]http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Slate-EP121-1A010M-12-1-Inch-Tablet/dp/B004HKIIFI[/ame] It is an Asus laptop that uses wacom technology. I have always wanted a portable cintiq, but still can not figure out how I would get around not using a keyboard...…
Yeah, I had a power laptop and it really just turned into a portable workstation... it would only last 30 minutes on battery and would charbroil your lap. I would bring it to work and hook a second monitor, kb, mouse and tablet up to it, I had about 4-5 hours of quiet time during the night shift so I worked on my…
Plus, a little sketchbook is infinitely more portable than a tablet and pc (even a tabletpc). The one in the pics is about 4"x6", which fits handily into a cargo pocket. Gonna see if I can incorporate a pencil/pen loop somehow. More pics tomorrow when I've gotten the binding done (almost there!) and hopefully the cover…