02-22-2014, 11:07 AM
@Madzia....yeah I have been thinking of getting the real deal out and painting properly with trad material for plein air. Not sure what is more annoying, building a custom plein air shadow box for a laptop / tablet or carting around easels and canvases and what not. Same same, but diffferent . Guess I could do both.
@Meat, thanks for all the specific info, especially the laptop. Instead of the companion I'm thinking just going with a grunty mobile workstation with ssd for apps and os so I'll check out the asus. I saw the dell precision m4800 series, packs a mighty wallop, great screen spec and is built like a tank.Weighs as much as one, but I don't need to run marathons with it. Guess I could then either shell out for a 22hd or 13h and use the laptop as my second. (Can I even do that?) Or get a passably decent second screen.
The thing is while I can go ghetto on equipment, I have done this enough up to this point, and I feel that I deserve to give myself the luxury of higher end tools for a change. May as well if I'm building from scratch! I have a dual monitor screen mount at work, and I love being able to rotate them around landscape, portrait or simply push it out the way if I want to work on my drafting table for trad work with a simple flick of the wrist. I'm done with ghetto solutions. Lol.
About the iPad, I will never get one of those. Mostly useless as they weren't built with pressure sensitivity in mind. I have had a Galaxy Note 10.1 for a year now,which is pressure sensitive and uses wacom tech. And it works incredibly well as a digital sketchbook, highly recommend it for about the same price as an iPeed
Cool cool. Thanks for the comments...will keep you guys updated on how it goes. :) might take some time, insurance is dragging!
@Meat, thanks for all the specific info, especially the laptop. Instead of the companion I'm thinking just going with a grunty mobile workstation with ssd for apps and os so I'll check out the asus. I saw the dell precision m4800 series, packs a mighty wallop, great screen spec and is built like a tank.Weighs as much as one, but I don't need to run marathons with it. Guess I could then either shell out for a 22hd or 13h and use the laptop as my second. (Can I even do that?) Or get a passably decent second screen.
The thing is while I can go ghetto on equipment, I have done this enough up to this point, and I feel that I deserve to give myself the luxury of higher end tools for a change. May as well if I'm building from scratch! I have a dual monitor screen mount at work, and I love being able to rotate them around landscape, portrait or simply push it out the way if I want to work on my drafting table for trad work with a simple flick of the wrist. I'm done with ghetto solutions. Lol.
About the iPad, I will never get one of those. Mostly useless as they weren't built with pressure sensitivity in mind. I have had a Galaxy Note 10.1 for a year now,which is pressure sensitive and uses wacom tech. And it works incredibly well as a digital sketchbook, highly recommend it for about the same price as an iPeed
Cool cool. Thanks for the comments...will keep you guys updated on how it goes. :) might take some time, insurance is dragging!