#Astropad vs sidecar drivers
#Astropad vs sidecar pro
#Astropad vs sidecar mac

On the other hand its $80 cheaper than a centiq HD13 which must be wired to you computer Supports Mac and Windows but can not surf the web on its own.

#Astropad vs sidecar pro

Intuos Pro Small $250 vs iPad Pro cheapest model $800 + Pencel $100 + AstroPad $20 the difference seems to be Astropad cost $670 more no support for PC just Mac but the iPad pro is also a display and can browse the web You can use the Duet Display app if you want more screen real-estate on your iPad, but I don't think it has the same integration with Apple Pencil.

And if the rumors about the iPad Air 3 are true, you may have the option to use that smaller (and cheaper) iPad as an input screen with Apple Pencil capability.Ĭons - This is a Mac-only solution, and kind of expensive the screen can only mirror a portion of what is on your display, and does not have display extension capabilities (at least not at the moment). And you get to use the superlative Apple Pencils as your input device. Pros - iPad Pro is basically a lightweight Cintiq with standalone computing capabilities. On my MacBook Pro retina with NVIDIA discrete graphics, I see no such lag. On my wife's Macbook Air, the Astropad app is slow, lags a bit, and often displays screen refresh artifacts, even when using a Lightning cable to connect the devices. This is really the best of all worlds, though I've seen some performance variability on different Macs. DropBox is a decent file-system workaround, but it's hard to find good apps that have PSD import capability. The battery life is very long, the device is super-light, and lends itself to being taken out and sketched upon anywhere.Ĭons - iPad Pro is an iOS device, which means you have to change your workflow completely and deal with the lack of a central file system. 1.0! The iPad Pro is also a great platform for drawing or basic image editing, with a beautiful screen and some decent applications (Procreate, Pixelmator). You can do most of the things it does using high-end Wacom styles, but I and every artist who tries the Apple Pencil comes away acknowledging its supremacy. Pros - The pencil is hands-down the best stylus for drawing. The pencil is simply the best out there perfect weight, great tilt and pressure sensitivity, and long battery life with fast recharge time.

I've never used a more natural or pleasing digital stylus (including Wacom's). IPad Pro - Standalone - I wasn't going to buy one of these until I tried the pencil.

#Astropad vs sidecar drivers

Pros - Powerful CPU with lots of RAM and SSD storage runs a full OS (Windows) and apps designed for that OS terrific tablet performance with 2048 levels, tilt and pressure sensitivity.Ĭons - Lots of technical issues, such as dropped bluetooth devices, poor wireless connectivity, and crashing tablet drivers the fan runs fast, loud, and constantly the device does not reliably go to sleep battery life is terrible (2-3h if you're lucky) expensive (I have the top-of-the-line $2500 version). Unfortunately, it often creates annoying usability problems that swallow up any time savings I may have banked up from using it. Never again.Ĭintiq Companion 2 - This is an expensive, high-performance solution that can handle just about anything you throw at it. That said, I could never go back to an approach that separates the drawing surface from the screen the disconnect is something I taught myself to cope when I bought my first tablet in 1996, but that all ended with my first Cintiq in 2008. The advantages to the Intuos are that your hand doesn't get between you and your work, it costs less, and it doesn't lag at all. I don't think there's a meaningful comparison between the iPad Pro/AstroPad solution and the Wacom Intuos. The reviews posted above are very good, but I can offer a few impressions. I have a Cintiq Companion 2, a MacBook Pro, and an iPad Pro. There are numerous videos on YouTube showing Astropad in action and some comparing Astropad and Wacom, including Cintiq. The best pencil experience (and I believe it can be one of the very best) is only in the native apps that support it. So for now the best pencil experience (and I believe it can be one of the very best) is only in the native apps that support it. īut from what I've seen and read about the pencil is that the app really has to properly support the pencil. No first hand experience of the iPad pro, the pencil or indeed astro pad. Has anyone here used the iPad pro for photo editing and can maybe give feedback (good/bad) compared to the Intous pro?