I would dig into the SSD's under the hood. Only one claims NVMe storage and this will be one of the biggest felt performance options.

I would also err on the side of more ram than less (At least until I knew how readily you can access and upgrade ram in a device) because that is the first place you will feel it for art over time.

As for the stylus, Samsung has been making them longer and theirs are a bit better than Acers implementations in my personal experience so far.

For someone looking into the migration to Digital art, Apple iPad is pretty much the best tablet/stylus combination in the market so far. But the downside is it is an apple iPad which is the exact opposite of what FOSS is about.

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 10:06 PM der.hans via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

moin moin,

I picked up an Acer 2 in 1 with touchpad for kid. We really needed to
finally replace the laptop that had been gravity tested a few times at the
beginning of the pandemic.

First thing kidling wanted was to install Krita ( much disappointment that
it wasn't on there by default ). Many hours have now been spent
discovering how to use a stylus.

My wife is an analog artist, but likes what she's been seeing, so now I
need two devices that can use stylii.

I had picked up the Acer from Woot and they immediately ran some Samsungs
for less money. The Acer requires a little bit of a bios dance to get
running with debian ( and a non-free ethernet driver ), but has otherwise
been great and much better than the dell we're replacing.

A similarly priced Samsung is similar for features, but I don't really
compare hardware specs anymore since I don't often buy hardware.

Acer:
* 10th Gen Intel Core i5-1035G4
* 8GB LPDDR4
* 256GB NVMe

Samsung:
* 8th Gen Intel Core i7-8565U
* 16GB
* 512GB SSD

There's also a Samsung for $200 less

10th Generation Quad-Core i7-10510U
12GB DDR4 SDRAM
512GB SSD
no USB C :(

I like the idea of more RAM, but the family doesn't really need that. They
don't run containers and databases and test deployments on laptops. Seems
a waste to me :).

They need pretty decent hardware ( we should have far less drop-testing as
that lesson has been learned ), with a decent touchscreen that will work
for a while. They do need computers they draw on rather than tablets they
compute on. They will be running debian ( or derivative if we must ).

Links:

https://computers.woot.com/offers/acer-spin-5-convertible-laptop-3?ref=w_cnt_wp_3_6

https://computers.woot.com/offers/samsung-notebook-9-pro13-3-i7-2-in-1z?ref=w_cnt_wp_5_8

https://computers.woot.com/offers/samsung-galaxy-book-flip-fold-laptop?ref=w_cnt_wp_5_3

Also, an opportunity to podcast as root:

https://computers.woot.com/offers/sudotack-usb-streaming-podcast-pc-microphone-1?ref=w_cnt_wp_3_1

ciao,

der.hans
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