My wife uses the Sketchbook app for cartooning for her website (linkage). Past history is using the original Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 with a stylus. She also was using a much older version of Android Sketchbook since the Kindle OS wasn't updated for the more current Sketchbook. Sometime roughly a year ago the stuff hit the fan with being able to download her work from the old Kindle to her Win 10 Dell laptop (which is old enough that it doesn't pass the Win 11 check) and she started using my 2022 iPad Air with 2nd gen Apple pencil and the current iOS Sketchbook and transferring files via iCloud. That got her through the short-term work phase (she has cartoons prepared out a long way and pre-loaded for posting).
She's not real keen on getting an iPad for herself (and I'd just as soon not give up mine for her work time each day
) for the expense and limited use otherwise. Given that her laptop will start aging out of support next year, she's open to a new computer (otherwise, not - she's fine with what it does for what she needs - basic browsing and email) if she could also use it for drawing and then posting to her blog.
What to look at? My limited searching this morning seems to suggest a Surface machine of some type, but there also seem to be enough problems with them that make it a bit sketchy in a bad way.
So if we don't go Apple, we'd need Windows 11, touchscreen, pen compatibility (she does not want to work with something like a Wacom - she wants to draw directly on the screen), etc. Thinness and ability to use like a tablet when sketching would be almost a requirement.
Suggestions? Thanks.
She's not real keen on getting an iPad for herself (and I'd just as soon not give up mine for her work time each day
) for the expense and limited use otherwise. Given that her laptop will start aging out of support next year, she's open to a new computer (otherwise, not - she's fine with what it does for what she needs - basic browsing and email) if she could also use it for drawing and then posting to her blog.What to look at? My limited searching this morning seems to suggest a Surface machine of some type, but there also seem to be enough problems with them that make it a bit sketchy in a bad way.
So if we don't go Apple, we'd need Windows 11, touchscreen, pen compatibility (she does not want to work with something like a Wacom - she wants to draw directly on the screen), etc. Thinness and ability to use like a tablet when sketching would be almost a requirement.
Suggestions? Thanks.
