Comments on: IPad vs Microsoft Courier, Ipad for netbook and Courier for graphic. http://www.tablettweet.com/2010/01/29/ipad-vs-microsoft-courier-ipad-for-netbook-and-courier-for-graphic/ a place for digital read & digital write. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:30:31 +0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mafan http://www.tablettweet.com/2010/01/29/ipad-vs-microsoft-courier-ipad-for-netbook-and-courier-for-graphic/comment-page-1/#comment-318 Mafan Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:18:26 +0000 http://www.tablettweet.com/?p=928#comment-318 @ Jwray: Sorry, but you can forget about that. The iPad will never be a substitute for a graphic tablet. Wacom Intuos and comparable products are not simply app-related. The whole concept works because of special hardware (based on inductive signals between pen and tablet). That is why stylus based, pressure sensitive tablet PCs cost > 1500$. The good news is that Win7 based tablets like Lenovo X200 are both multitouch and stylus ready. But the iPad can simply never deliver the pressure sensitivity and precise input due to it's lak of hardware. Cheers, Mafan @ Jwray: Sorry, but you can forget about that.
The iPad will never be a substitute for a graphic tablet.

Wacom Intuos and comparable products are not simply app-related.
The whole concept works because of special hardware (based on inductive signals between pen and tablet).
That is why stylus based, pressure sensitive tablet PCs cost > 1500$.
The good news is that Win7 based tablets like Lenovo X200 are both multitouch and stylus ready.
But the iPad can simply never deliver the pressure sensitivity and precise input due to it’s lak of hardware.

Cheers,
Mafan

]]> By: Jwray http://www.tablettweet.com/2010/01/29/ipad-vs-microsoft-courier-ipad-for-netbook-and-courier-for-graphic/comment-page-1/#comment-315 Jwray Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:49:52 +0000 http://www.tablettweet.com/?p=928#comment-315 @ Dan: I couldn't agree more. It's like saying......"hmm, should I buy this beautiful Arabian horse now, or should I wait because this other guys says that he has a unicorn that he wants to sell to me?" The two are not comparable. I actually found this site because I was searching to see if anyone was using an iPad as a graphics tablet. I'm in the research phase of buying a graphics tablet now, and after looking and seeing that I'm going to be laying out $400 for a nice one, and it's going to be a peripheral device dependent on a laptop at the least. I started thinking......."I wonder if you could just use an iPad as a graphics tablet, and eliminate the laptop from the laptop/graphics tablet equation?" That would be great for me, especially when I'm in the initial stages of a project, to only have to carry one thing into a meeting with a customer. Surely, these graphics tablet companies are working on this? They are nuts for not having an app ready to go at or around launch date. Even a company like Wacom who has the market in a stranglehold would be CRAZY to not take what they already know about tablets, and develop an app for the iPad. They could develop an iPad specific pen for the iPad and their iPad app. If they don't do it, someone else surely will. I say all this, never having touched (or even seen for that matter) an iPad. I don't even know if you can run Photoshop (or any other graphics software) on it. I just see a tremendous opportunity, given that the price of a decent tablet is just about the same as an iPad. @ Dan:

I couldn’t agree more. It’s like saying……”hmm, should I buy this beautiful Arabian horse now, or should I wait because this other guys says that he has a unicorn that he wants to sell to me?” The two are not comparable.

I actually found this site because I was searching to see if anyone was using an iPad as a graphics tablet. I’m in the research phase of buying a graphics tablet now, and after looking and seeing that I’m going to be laying out $400 for a nice one, and it’s going to be a peripheral device dependent on a laptop at the least. I started thinking…….”I wonder if you could just use an iPad as a graphics tablet, and eliminate the laptop from the laptop/graphics tablet equation?”

That would be great for me, especially when I’m in the initial stages of a project, to only have to carry one thing into a meeting with a customer.

Surely, these graphics tablet companies are working on this? They are nuts for not having an app ready to go at or around launch date. Even a company like Wacom who has the market in a stranglehold would be CRAZY to not take what they already know about tablets, and develop an app for the iPad. They could develop an iPad specific pen for the iPad and their iPad app. If they don’t do it, someone else surely will.

I say all this, never having touched (or even seen for that matter) an iPad. I don’t even know if you can run Photoshop (or any other graphics software) on it. I just see a tremendous opportunity, given that the price of a decent tablet is just about the same as an iPad.

]]> By: Dan Woods http://www.tablettweet.com/2010/01/29/ipad-vs-microsoft-courier-ipad-for-netbook-and-courier-for-graphic/comment-page-1/#comment-297 Dan Woods Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:55:13 +0000 http://www.tablettweet.com/?p=928#comment-297 I think the main benefit of the iPad over the Courier is that it actually exists and is more likely to make it to market (on sale in 60 days versus "we have a concept video!") The Brushes.App has a distinctive style, which will restrict it's acceptance, but the "clean slate" and low barrier of entry nature of the App Store means that Autodesk, Pixelmator and any of a dozen different companies can write Graphics software for it without having to worry about muscling into an established market. While a variable pressure stylus will be difficult to emulate by Finger painting, I'm sure someone will work it out. I think the main benefit of the iPad over the Courier is that it actually exists and is more likely to make it to market (on sale in 60 days versus “we have a concept video!”)

The Brushes.App has a distinctive style, which will restrict it’s acceptance, but the “clean slate” and low barrier of entry nature of the App Store means that Autodesk, Pixelmator and any of a dozen different companies can write Graphics software for it without having to worry about muscling into an established market. While a variable pressure stylus will be difficult to emulate by Finger painting, I’m sure someone will work it out.

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