This video from Color Cartel shows the traditional Wacom Cintiq tablet setup and use vs that of the iPad Pro.
At about 3:48 into the video, you get a sense of all the setup work you need to do to get started with the Wacom Cintiq. The idea that you have to hold the stylus in one hand and the mouse in the other seems incredibly clunky and inconvenient.
Watch the video, see for yourself.
Wow.. great review!
Astropad for the win! Thanks for posting this!
Wow, I am out-of-my-mind excited to pick up Astropad and iPad Pro. I haven’t used a graphics tablet for years (a pre-display-screen Wacom tablet), as I’m not a professional illustrator, but my test of the Apple Pencil’s responsiveness at my local Apple Store was hugely impressive, and it’s great to see that Astropad + Photoshop features the same responsive, professional capability.
I haven’t used a Cintiq very much, but I use a Wacom tablet constantly. I always set a button on the tablet to the command key for Photoshop. When you want to drag your image around, you press that button and you can drag your image around. I’m definitely getting an iPad Pro, but I will miss the hardware buttons extremely. I love not having to look for the buttons, it’s great to be able to feel them.
I wonder which Cintiq you have there, because the cheapest Cintiq I see at Wacom is about $1,500. Some cost $2,500.
So, with Astropad, you can basically use any program that’s on your mac on the iPad, correct? So, you are no longer limited to tables apps, is that correct? Cool!
The most important bit is when he says, “I’m going to sell my iPad and return the Wacom to the store because the pro can do both…”
That is very impressive.
Haven’t yet seen whether you’ve linked to Serenity Caldwell’s comparison demos as well. But I imagine Wacom is not as happy a place to work these days as it was, say, last year. They’re already scheduling new public Cintiq demos at Apple Resellers like Tekserve.
I imagine they’re about to feel just a little bit like the competing tablet makers they sidelined in a previous decade.