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There are the iPad and Android tablets, which are basically over-sized smartphones (I think the Kindle Fire tablets fall into this category).

The ones with only a touch screen and no digitiser pen are not so good for art, but are more common and often cheaper - watch out for this trap if you want one as a mobile art tool.ģ.

Examples are the Microsoft Surface Pro (versions 1, 2,and now 3), the lower-powered ThinkPad 10 and Helix from Lenovo, the very expensive Cintiq Companion from Wacom, the somewhat underpowered new Toshiba Encore 2 Write, and the somewhat underpowered 8-inch Asus Vivotab Note 8 (although both these should be good for undemanding programs like FireAlpaca, they may struggle with more demanding software). Some of t hese also have digitiser technology built into the screen, so you can use a pressure-sensitive pen on the screen as well as your finger - these are a nice mobile art tool but more expensive, a similar price to mid-range laptops or more. There are tablet computers, which are like a full Windows laptop with the keyboard cut off and a touch screen. There are other brands of graphics tablets, but Wacom is an excellent choice.Ģ.

To use this type of tablet, you need an existing computer to plug it into, just like a mouse.īecause management and marketing people need to justify their existence (that's the only explanation I can think of), Wacom are confusingly changing the names of the home user Bamboo tablets to Intuos, and the more expensive professional Intuos tablets to Intuos Pro. The Wacom Bamboo and similar are called graphics tablets or digitiser tablets (digitizer if you're North American), which are a mouse alternative (you can still have a mouse plugged in at the same time), but instead of drawing with half a brick (the mouse), you are drawing with a pencil (the tablet's pen, which only works on the active drawing area of the rectangular plate-like tablet). The problem is there are at least three types of "tablet".ġ. Josh, sorry nobody replied to your question in a timely fashion.