Hi
The other night I made a thread about the surface pro x. Let me try again because I admit, I was a bit stoned, and that thread turned into a mess.
So I’m trying to go after some life goals right now. One is to have my art hobby back, and specifically to start learning more animation based tools. If possible, I want that to be my job someday.
Currently I have a thinkpad X230T with an i3 3310m and 16gb ram and an SSD. I need something much more beefy in the gpu department, and probably a few more cores wouldn’t hurt. Basically, I want to be able to draw a line on the screen and not have any lag behind the pen whatsoever in Krita, Paint.Net, Sai, or Blender. At least those are the apps that will be installed.
Currently my thinkpad throws me off because at a certain resolution it start lagging a little bit behind, and the higher res you go the more it lags. It’s not even very high either, like 10k X 6.4k sRGB single layer. I can draw with it, but it bugs me enough that I don’t want to deal with it.
I’m looking for appliance level application. The apps listed above are basically all I would run, if not literally JUST blender.
I’m currently interested in the surface pro X. It’s SOC is on light on power it won’t make much heat, it has 8 pretty ok cores and a gpu that at the very least competes with my phone (good enough for me, OP Nord N10), and the pen isn’t awful. Yes it won’t have apps, but literally if I can install blender I do not care. At all. Whatsoever.
Now, if there is another machine that will give me as much access to the hardware and ability to manipulate the system as the surface pro x, SPX is my baseline, I’ll be interested in it.
I have 0 interest in an ipad. I’m honestly not all that familiar and I’d like to stream from the device if possible while doing art stuff. iPads are kinda money holes in that regard, and I don’t wanna spend 300 on a tablet then another 300 in apps and bullshit when SPX’s are 600 used nah the apps are pretty much all free anyways.
Hell at some point I’d have to pay MORE money for a jailbreak to keep using the ipad.
But again, I’m open to arguments. Just don’t expect me to budge.
Either way, help me out.