Portable device for designs

Boxa786

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Hi

My Brother has been in the sign business for some time now, using plotters, flexisign and various other softwares to design and print anything to do with signs. He has a pretty beefy laptop, but a consumer model, which is fine for flexisign and softwares used for printing to plotters/cutters.

He has been asking about "pads"/"tablets". Is there a tablet that you would recommend for him to use, lets say flexisign 8 and/or Adobe Creative Suite 5. Or is a laptop the best option?

Thanks in advance
 
Hello Boxa786;

Right now the pad and tablets are far too underpowered to run Adobe CS5.
Most pads/tablets don't even run Windows and use beefed up cell phone CPUs.

An example would be the HP TouchPad running WebOS not Windows.
Using 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-core APQ8060 processor and 32GB flash storage.



 
What you could show him is a ultra-portable laptop with a LCD screen that swivels flat and can act like a tablet.

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Core i5-2520M Sandy Bridge CPU, 4GB RAM, 250GB HDD, 12.5" 1366x768 IPS LCD w/ HD 3000 graphics.

Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Tablet (X220T) review
 

Dan Gray

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Is there anything newer and better now that we are nearing March of 2013? I am considering tablets... and have never even used a laptop for business purposes. We use FlexiSign 8.6v2, Picasa, many different Photo programs etc, along with Quickbooks and Office files.

Would Android OS tablets be able to handle any/many of these? Sounds like the Windows Tablet OS is kind of bloated and not as slick as the Androids much less iPads.
 

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