For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.

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    I seem to recall there being purpose-built drawing tablets that are only drawing tablets, and act as a peripheral to a computer rather than a computer unto themselves. That sounds good on paper, since then you can still use the keyboard and mouse for everything other than drawing, but I’ve never used one, so I wouldn’t know.

    Also, there are laptops with touchscreens and full-range hinges. With that, you could do your drawing on an actual, fully-functional laptop. I haven’t used one of those, either, though. I do have a laptop with a touchscreen, which could in theory be used for drawing, but it has a normal laptop hinge and can’t be held like a tablet or paper notebook, so actually drawing on it is cumbersome at best.

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      I felt the same way until I took up drawing.

      I’ve used both, and I’ll take an iPad over a wakom tablet for drawing any day. Every time I got an os update the tablet would stop working. I couldn’t really find a convenient spot for it on my desk. It was huge and made my keyboard awkward to use. Meanwhile, I can carry my iPad around with me and am not tethered to my desk for digital drawing.

      I also have terrible vision, it’s far easier for me to read (the internet) on an iPad than on my phone.

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        1 year ago

        How do you feel about convertible laptops, then? That should give you the tablet-like experience you prefer, but it’s a full-featured computer instead of a crippled sorta-computer.

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      I will never buy another laptop that does not become a tablet, whether by turning the hinge all the way around or by pulling the screen off. I prefer the latter design but most of the industry seems to have settled on the former. My favorite laptop I’ve ever owned from a hardware design perspective was a Thinkpad Helix.