06-16-2014, 10:00 PM
for the money, building your own desktop yields about twice or more the power for the money plopped down on any laptop. You give up 99% portability (I take my desktop / wacom places...) but you will get far more power for serious work / learning. E.g. you could get the 6 core i7 or equiv AMD, more like 32 gigs of ram, and a couple beastly gaming cards or a single workstation card, for the price of a $1500-$1800 laptop. Or alternatively, you could get slower but still awesome PC hardware (4 core i7, 16 gigs ram) for about $800 brand new, with a gaming GPU which will get you through all of photoshop creative suite (brand new version), and any 3D programs you plan on picking up in the future. With the money you save on hardware, you could put that towards a true mobile solution like a Wacom Companion i7 powered tablet computer.
I built my first computer when I was about 9 years old, with my uncle. By 11, I could build them alone with ease. I'm not even that smart or anything, computers are insanely easy to build. If you can put together an Ikea bookshelf, you can assemble yourself an ub3r b055 rig.
links brah:
Wacom companion glory:
http://www.amazon.com/Wacom-Cintiq-Compa...+companion
Computer hardware shopping land of pr0z:
http://www.newegg.com/
4K line of monitors: - Especially the dell ultrasharp 4Ks that just recently came out, are pretty much gonna be future proof for the life span of that monitor (I would guess 8-10 years) - these would also feature in some of them, Full Adobe RGB coverage and extremely large gamuts. This is good for color sensitive work like your drawlings.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLis...20x%202160
24 inch Dell Ultrasharp: - a cheaper LED IPS panel. This would have good color gamut on the cheap, probably. If you don't know what Gamut is, read more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamut
http://www.amazon.com/Dell-UltraSharp-24...ultrasharp
I would avoid mac, purely from a cost effective stand point. They think a 4 gig stick of ram costs $200. Even the extreme cost of the wacom companion is about average to a high end mac laptop, and said mac wouldn't be also a wacom tablet built right in. (best in the business, yo!)
I built my first computer when I was about 9 years old, with my uncle. By 11, I could build them alone with ease. I'm not even that smart or anything, computers are insanely easy to build. If you can put together an Ikea bookshelf, you can assemble yourself an ub3r b055 rig.
links brah:
Wacom companion glory:
http://www.amazon.com/Wacom-Cintiq-Compa...+companion
Computer hardware shopping land of pr0z:
http://www.newegg.com/
4K line of monitors: - Especially the dell ultrasharp 4Ks that just recently came out, are pretty much gonna be future proof for the life span of that monitor (I would guess 8-10 years) - these would also feature in some of them, Full Adobe RGB coverage and extremely large gamuts. This is good for color sensitive work like your drawlings.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLis...20x%202160
24 inch Dell Ultrasharp: - a cheaper LED IPS panel. This would have good color gamut on the cheap, probably. If you don't know what Gamut is, read more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamut
http://www.amazon.com/Dell-UltraSharp-24...ultrasharp
I would avoid mac, purely from a cost effective stand point. They think a 4 gig stick of ram costs $200. Even the extreme cost of the wacom companion is about average to a high end mac laptop, and said mac wouldn't be also a wacom tablet built right in. (best in the business, yo!)