krita, acer, samsung

[Stephen Partington]

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 at 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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