Shogmaster
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I can't believe none of you are jumping on this deal. I thought NeoGAF was all about iPad Pro!?!
I can't believe none of you are jumping on this deal. I thought NeoGAF was all about iPad Pro!?!
I don't know if this is the right thread for it, but I broke my monoprice tablet pen, it costs about 12 dollars in amazon, but with the shipping is over $20. I am wondering if anyone knows anywhere else I could get it cheaper?
I don't think you can get any decent EMR pen with tilt for less than $20.
So I'm having a fun problem and I'm hoping one of the Tablet Masters of GAF can help me.
At work, I've been using a Cintiq 21UX with an older iMac that they supplied, no problems. Been using it for over a year now. A couple months ago, I brought in my MacBook Air so that I could use some of the software I had on there, downloaded the drivers, set everything up, hooray! I use the tablet all day, no problem, leave for work at night.
Come back the next morning, the tablet is not recognized my my computer. I go into Settings, it says there's no Cintiq. I get a picture on the Cintiq, but when I try to use the pen, it either doesn't respond at all, or the calibration is completely wonk - like the mouse will be on my Air and I'll wiggle the pen around on the Cintiq and the mouse will move.. over on my Air. Have to shut everything down and restart, oh there it is!
Turns out I have to do this every. Single. Time. My MacBook Air goes to sleep. So I get sick of it and go back to the slow old work iMac.
Flash forward to this week, I bring in my personal iMac to use. It's a 21.5 inch late 2012, 2.7GHz i5, 8GB of Ram, running OS X 10.11.4. Install the drivers, everything works perfectly all week, don't notice any problems. Then yesterday, suddenly I have the same problem as with my Air. If the screen saver turns on and my iMac goes to sleep, when I wake it, the Cintiq is totally borked. I get picture but again, the pen is just all over the damn place.
I've looked online but I can't find anything helpful, all the stuff I've seen is from either 2008 or back when Mavericks first came out.
Is there some way to keep this from happening? I know I should probably shut my computer down anyway at the end of the day, but it's really fucking annoying to go on lunch for an hour only to come back and have to reboot just to get the Cintiq pen to work, and sometimes even a full reboot doesn't fix the problem. I've tried switching USB ports on my iMac to varying degrees of success, sometimes it'll start working agin but once the computer falls asleep, done. Is there some issue with the Razor Thin iMac USB ports not working with Cintiq USB plugs? But that wouldn't explain why it happened on my Macbook Air... so I assume it has to be some kind of software problem?
Am I just really lucky or is this a known issue with a way to solve it? Thanks for any advice y'all ):
I need a art tablet but don't have the income yet . Glad this thread exists as I've been needing something but have a hard time looking.
Monoprice always has interesting things. Anyone seen this before?
http://www.monoprice.com/mobile/pro...id=108&categoryid=10841&subcategoryid=1084101
damn, $500 bucks for a 22 inch HD display tablet? Sounds too good to be true.
I heard some horror stories regarding Cintiq drivers and OSX. One of my old coworkers never used his 24HD on his desk becuase the IT department gave up making it work with his particular version of OSX.
I think you just need to make sure that the version of the Cintiq driver doesn't have issues with your version of OSX. All I can tell you. I don't use OSX. My Cintiq trouble shooting experience is purely on PCs.
Which version of Photoshop? I don't know if this sounds tin foil to anyone, but anything pre CC is NOT working well with Wacom drivers. I use to use CS6 fine for long time, but year or more ago, new Wacom drivers started acting up only with Photoshop. I would lose pressure sensitivity every few strokes. I chalked it up to Windows 10 issue, but later I found out that my friend with Windows 7 had same problems. Apparently this is a problem with anyone still not moved on to CC.Ugh that is so disheartening to hear. I've wanted my own Cintiq for YEARS and if buying one would result in these same problems, then fuck it, I don't want anything to do with that. I'm not gonna drop $2,000 on something that *might* work with my computers. What a massive disappointment.
Thank you for taking the time to respond though. Sorry I'm so bitchy, unsurprisingly I just spent almost 30 minutes trying to get my Cintiq to work again today so I'm just a bit grumpy.
I know you said your expertise is with PCs but have you at least heard of any other types of tablet displays that DO play well with OSX? Although I've long wanted a Cintiq if there's something out there that actually works I'm not married to the brand. I just want a screen I can plug in to my computer and draw in Photoshop and Flash with.
Maybe if I just boot into Windows on my iMac and leave it like that it'll actually work. -___-
Edit: Oh god Windows mode is awful and the version of Photoshop I have is so old and none of my brushes work just... just kill me now
Which version of Photoshop? I don't know if this sounds tin foil to anyone, but anything pre CC is NOT working well with Wacom drivers. I use to use CS6 fine for long time, but year or more ago, new Wacom drivers started acting up only with Photoshop. I would lose pressure sensitivity every few strokes. I chalked it up to Windows 10 issue, but later I found out that my friend with Windows 7 had same problems. Apparently this is a problem with anyone still not moved on to CC.
Now I'm on CC 2015 and no such problems. Works fine. It's almost as if Adobe paid off Wacom to ruin Photoshop for anything other than CC with their Wintab drivers...
Anyone has Galaxy Note 10.1 2014? They are about 200euros used. Can you do more serious stuff with it or just sketching?
Edit: kinda off topic, it's a deals thread. Sorry guys.
So the iPad Pro.... how serious is it for drawing? Could I have multiple 3000x4000 files open with 20 layers each? Hows the software? Is it easy to have backups and transfer files?
Im using a Sony Vaio duo 11 atm.
One of my current daily drivers and Penabled mobile workstation bargain of the year has hit a new low price of $849.99 at Best Buy!
http://surfaceproartist.com/blog/20...lenovo-offers-up-two-price-performance-champs
This thing is super versatile and powerful. You can install 2 SATA 3 SSDs (I'm currently dual booting between the M.2 and 2.5" drives), jack the RAM up to 16GB yourself, and work on one of the biggest portable Penabled surface currently (14" FHD IPS). I love this thing. Did I mention it has a discrete NVidia 940M GPU? The Wacom Active ES pen works beautifully as well.
No other sub $1000 2 in 1 will let you do as much. I run Photoshop CC, Clip Studio Paint, Painter 2016, and Z Brush on this thing very nicely. Even with the base configuration, those software will not be a problem.
Go get it!
This doesn't come with a pen correct?
This version comes with a silo pen, but I treat that pen as an emergency pen since it's too thin and delicate. Here are compatible pens for this that are much more substantial to hold and use (The Toshiba one has the best tip material feel, but is really hard to find):
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/itemdetails/4X80H34887/460/41E9A3C3FB5A45A9AC47C56812E4188C#4X80H34887
https://www.cdw.com/shop/products/TOSHIBA-DYNAPAD-TRUPEN/4035151.aspx
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Dell-Ac...795653?hash=item2eee32b305:g:ILMAAOSwd3dXFiyw
Lenovo is good with providing all drivers. All necessary drivers in their support site.You're killing me with that tablet--so tempting, but I think I might just wait for another sale on the SP3-SP4.
If I do a clean install on the yoga 14, I can just go online for the Wacom drivers correct? I don't wanna fuck anything up.
I'm looking into getting a Surface Pro 4 with middling specs very soon; are there any good deals out there, Gaf?
I'm currently doing all of my artwork for my comic projects on a Surface Pro 1. I'm looking to upgrade my tablet, as I just want some extra processing power. Any decently affordable recommendations for me?
I'm up for anything $1,000 and under, personally. I love my Surface, and I'm surprised at how well it's served me during the year of producing my comic series, but now that I've wrapped that up and plan on moving on to a new project, I want some more horsepower!
It's hard for me to recommend Surface Pro 4 for $1200+ (say if you wany 8GB of RAM) when you can buy the Miix 700 for $550. For fuck sake, that's less than half the price for 8GB RAM config! Sure SP4 is a bit better built and uses more expensive materials and parts, but they are so close in quality and functionality plus Miix uses Wacom instead of N-Trig...
I don't know what to tell ya. The biggest sale I've seen on SP4 is the $100 off sale at MS Store, but now they are back to the regular price and doing some stupid bundle involving the dock.
If you simply must have Surface Pro 4 and don't want a Core M device, then I guess that's that, but otherwise jump on that Costco.com Miix 700 deal above. It's RIDICULOUS.
I'm about to jump on the SP4 i5 128/4GB because I found a good deal for it (SP4 + Type Cover, 1000 bucks instead of 1249, tip kit for 9.99, too). Sadly, the Miix 700 costs the same as the SP4 here, so no insane deals like that in Europe.
I'm only a bit hesitant, because it's almost May and a SP5 with a better pen (less lag) might not be that far away. I'd use it mostly for note taking and a little sketching, so I'm not sure how much of an impact the higher refresh rate would be.
Lag is not something I'd complain about the N-Trig. There is practically no lag. Lag is now only product of too big of a brush or lack of processing power. The Pen hardware now days produces no lag. If you see lag now, it's inefficient software or your CPU choking. Also, if you see stupid videos showing SP4 lagging on Photoshop, tell them to put the damn thing on Performance mode so the GPU is not downclocked for battery savings.
What N-Trig does have to improve on is Initial Detection Force (or IDF) and digitizer grid resolution. But definitely not lag.
BTW, new "pen" has already been announced for all Surfaces past present and future: Wacom will be building a cross platform pen for both Wacom devices and N-Trig devices this holiday. That will take care of the IDF issue on all N-Trig Surfaces.
We might have better computer prices in US but you guys have free healthcare in Europe. We are the ones getting screwed if you ask me.
Shog, I do some drawing on this - HP Spectre x360 with a Dell Active Stylus. I'm only a casual artist using Manga Studio, so I'm wondering if it's worth upgrading to one of these cheap tablet models you keep mentioning, or sticking with what I got.
It's hard for me to recommend Surface Pro 4 for $1200+ (say if you wany 8GB of RAM) when you can buy the Miix 700 for $550. For fuck sake, that's less than half the price for 8GB RAM config! Sure SP4 is a bit better built and uses more expensive materials and parts like PCIe SSD, but they are so close in quality and functionality plus Miix uses Wacom instead of N-Trig...
I don't know what to tell ya. The biggest sale I've seen on SP4 is the $100 off sale at MS Store, but now they are back to the regular price and doing some stupid bundle involving the dock.
If you simply must have Surface Pro 4 and don't want a Core M device, then I guess that's that, but otherwise jump on that Costco.com Miix 700 deal. It's RIDICULOUS.
Could you elaborate on the differences between the Wacom and N-Trig?
1080p is really low res for a screen that massive. The Surface 3 screen is fuzzy enough and that's on a much smaller display with a higher resolution.
My sister is just getting started with her graphic design and has been looking at laptops for Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, etc. Currently she has a 3-4 year old laptop with an entry-level crappy Waom so I thought I might ask about tablets like these as well.
What would be a good tablet around AUD$1500 which would easily run the standard graphic design/digital art applications? She is used to PC but would be open to a Mac I'm sure since I think that's what everyone uses anyway.
Australian retailers would be:
https://www.pccasegear.com/category/1538/laptops-tablets
http://www.harveynorman.com.au/computers-tablets
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/computers-tablets/tablets/
https://www.kogan.com/au/shop/tablets-laptops/
Are you a fucking size queen like I am? I am a total size whore when it comes to drawing surface. If you are also someone who needs the biggest flat drawing area that a mobile device can provide, then here's my new discovery to the rescue.
Dell Inspiron is a 15.6" 2 in 1 convertible with anything from a low end Pentium to a Core i7 6700U option. You can have either 1920x1080 or 3840x2160 touchscreen IPS, but only the 1920x1080 version has Wacom AES digitizer.
Your local Best Buy will sell you a Core i5 6200U, 8GB RAM, 500GB HDD version with the said Wacom full HD IPS screen for $650.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFq5UnxuG24
Yes, it is sold with a shitty spinning platter, but do not fret; it is quite easy to crack this model open to replace the HDD and the RAM. You can easily upgrade this mofo with 16GB of RAM and 500GB SATA III SSD for say $300 more. If you are OK with 8GB of RAM, then just stick in a 256GB SSD for $80 and compute like it's 2016.