Just made the transition to Windows-10 -- thank the Gods Old and New -- so far everything 'important' is still working. Though I don't like the way the file-manager in FileExplorer handles 'recent folders'. Now I'm feeling a bit ambitious...
Anyone have a recommendation on +/- 10" touch-screen tablets for sketching details-and-such freehand? In addition just be to able to breakaway from the tyranny of my work-station desk, it would be handy to have something to freehand-sketch and doodle details on with a pen-stylus. I do that now on 4x4 graph-paper with a pencil or sign-pen marker, but then they have to be copied or .PDF-scanned -- or laboriously redrafted in Datacad. I'm inclined towards the Samsung Tabs or Pro-notes, but the apps don't seem very robust compared to an I-Pad and their "Paper"-app. I have an irrational innate antipathy towards Apple products, I've never owned one --- ever. But the I-Pad and artists-apps look enticing, and they have some great options for styluses for creative-types. I like the 10-inch-diaginal size for convenience and 'handiness'; and it's in-between a smartphone and a laptop in bulk and weight. And there's a number of interesting apps in that function-category that laptops can't access. I had an older HP laptop PC, and it was far from convenient as a portable resource. Too large, too heavy, too keyboard-centric -- and way too-official for sketching and doodling.
Plus, I'm being heavily leaned-on by a friend/important client to get more "paperless" as I'm drowning in manila file-folders -- and every thing I send his office needs to be .PDF or scanned since he's already 98% paperless. ...And they live-and-die on e-mail and attachment-files.
My sister is giving me an old Sprint Phantom smartphone that I'm going to use just as a WIFI device on my home-office network, but I'd like something larger for sketching and doing "research" on the Web without being tied to my work-station chair. Sometimes a change in "office scenery" helps when you're blocked...a nice "comfy chair" with a view, and one of the cats purring, can get the juices flowing again.
I'm feeling very 1997 this week....
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HP Tower running Windows-10 w/ 23" flatscreen
Datacad 18 (long-time Datacad user since the early 1990s?, I don't even remember how to use Autocad anymore.)
Sketchup-2015 (need to upgrade, yes...)
OpenOffice 4.1 suite and Quickbooks,
Epson WF-7620 11x17" copier/scanner/printer.
Anyone have a recommendation on +/- 10" touch-screen tablets for sketching details-and-such freehand? In addition just be to able to breakaway from the tyranny of my work-station desk, it would be handy to have something to freehand-sketch and doodle details on with a pen-stylus. I do that now on 4x4 graph-paper with a pencil or sign-pen marker, but then they have to be copied or .PDF-scanned -- or laboriously redrafted in Datacad. I'm inclined towards the Samsung Tabs or Pro-notes, but the apps don't seem very robust compared to an I-Pad and their "Paper"-app. I have an irrational innate antipathy towards Apple products, I've never owned one --- ever. But the I-Pad and artists-apps look enticing, and they have some great options for styluses for creative-types. I like the 10-inch-diaginal size for convenience and 'handiness'; and it's in-between a smartphone and a laptop in bulk and weight. And there's a number of interesting apps in that function-category that laptops can't access. I had an older HP laptop PC, and it was far from convenient as a portable resource. Too large, too heavy, too keyboard-centric -- and way too-official for sketching and doodling.
Plus, I'm being heavily leaned-on by a friend/important client to get more "paperless" as I'm drowning in manila file-folders -- and every thing I send his office needs to be .PDF or scanned since he's already 98% paperless. ...And they live-and-die on e-mail and attachment-files.
My sister is giving me an old Sprint Phantom smartphone that I'm going to use just as a WIFI device on my home-office network, but I'd like something larger for sketching and doing "research" on the Web without being tied to my work-station chair. Sometimes a change in "office scenery" helps when you're blocked...a nice "comfy chair" with a view, and one of the cats purring, can get the juices flowing again.
I'm feeling very 1997 this week....
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HP Tower running Windows-10 w/ 23" flatscreen
Datacad 18 (long-time Datacad user since the early 1990s?, I don't even remember how to use Autocad anymore.)
Sketchup-2015 (need to upgrade, yes...)
OpenOffice 4.1 suite and Quickbooks,
Epson WF-7620 11x17" copier/scanner/printer.