One of the most outstanding novelties of the iPad Pro, which was presented together with the Apple TV 4 and the iPhone 6s / Plus, was one of its accessories: the Apple Pencil. With this Stylus, a user can draw or take notes with the exact force they want to apply, as well as the desired tilt. Many users believe that the Wacom Cintiq is the benchmark in this type of equipment, but designer Linda Dong does not agree at all.
cute dong is a designer who worked in the Apple prototyping team, exploring new user integration concepts for their future hardware and technology. Before that, he also worked on Apple's video applications team and helped design the latest versions of Final Cut Pro and iMovie. The following information is something she posted on her personal blog almost two weeks ago, including that «Putting it straight: the Cintiq sucks by comparison. And I have been using it for years for industrial design drawing, user interface and art.«.
According to Dong, the Apple Pencil outperforms the Wacom Cintiq by:
Stylus Design
The Apple Pencil has a much narrower body at the tip, allowing the pencil not to cover what we are doing. According to her, it also provides more freedom of movement while drawing. The Cintiq pencil is large, the tip wobbles, the fingers stumble over the side buttons, and everything feels like cheap plastic.
Surface design
Cintiqs are heavy, very heavy. They consider them portable. Most of them come with a giant set of strings because they need to be connected to a computer. The displays are not retina, the color is a mess, the brightest they can show is not very bright and light reflects a lot. Most importantly, the screen has a huge gap between the pen and the digital screen. Nothing gives the feeling that we are drawing on this surface. All these things are not a problem with the iPad Pro, which also runs its own operating system and has a multitouch structure, so we could pay $ 2000 + for multitouch on a Cintiq.
Drawing
Latency, latency, latency. Dong says he can see how long it takes for the drawing to reach the pen of the Cintiq. We cannot know when to stop because we are not sure how far we have drawn. This problem does not exist with Apple Pencil. There is almost no latency, so the feeling is that we are using a real pencil, marking when we draw and where we draw. It also appears that pressure and tilt are more sensitively recognized than the Cintiq. The result: draw more than you originally thought.
Price
- iPad Pro + Apple Pencil: $ 899 - $ 1.179
- Most affordable Cintiq, non-touch: $ 799
- All other Cintiq models: $ 1.000-2.800
Linda Dong's final advice is that anyone thinking of buying an Apple computer or a Cintiq, stay away from the Cintiq, especially students. For professionals who have their Cintiq connected to a PC running Solidworks, C4D, CAD ... keep your fingers crossed to make applications for iPad.
Tell the cute girl to go to bed often check that he had to give her an apple to say such stupid things, and the funny thing is that surely more than one will believe it
And why do we have to believe you? Have you tried the DOS?
You are the example, let's see, Wacom dedicated to this sector, or Apple dedicated to selling you that they invent everything and it is the best, sorry kid but you yourselves make us question your ability to think.
I do not know if you have ever worked with 3D modeling programs like the ones you mention, but to give you an example, the requirements for solidworks are 8Gb of Ram and a PROFESSIONAL graphic. I know that you would like the iPad Pro to be able to work with this type of program but with iOS as the operating system and with a graph to watch movies and play casual games it is an insult to call it iPad PRO. So if you want to waste your money, buy yourself an iPad pro and its stylus, but I'm afraid that everyone will laugh at you when you tell them that you can't connect a USB stick or download a class program. But hey, you can always believe yourself the King and tell everyone how smart you are by spending € 900 for a tablet with a pencil and a bitten apple.
Since they made these notes, it is that the product is a fiasco, obviously they need to brainwash, the worst they get. We know very well that most have no idea what it says, right now it will come out that Apple has been in research for decades.
I'm sure the Wacom people will have been prepared before the iPad Pro came out and with a noteworthy renovation. If not, the iPad Pro will directly destroy the sales of the Cintiq ...
Apple will destroy sales, even I can tell, but we know why they will, that's what married people, I mean, most of them can't reason.
In addition, the iPad can be connected to a computer through an app to use them like the ciniq, did you know? The iPads of now were already doing it with the iPad pro and the pencil has to be the host!
What I would like to know is if the pencil works with other ipads.
Hello Andres. In theory, yes. Mind you, I say "in theory." The one who does the "magic" is the pawn. The iPad Pro has nothing special on the screen (it doesn't even have "2D" Force Touch). What you have is "pro" applications, let's say. If they develop those apps for regular iPads, the Apple Pencil should work.
A greeting.
How outrageous, Apple has lost its shame. They can't afford another fiasco, but I'm afraid this tray with a logo attached will continue the decline of the Mac Book at 1500 SLOW euros, the ipods at 400 that nobody buys, the watches that have already been in the drawer for weeks. the nightstand… And the iPhones that were shocked after having inoculated them with iOS9.
The decline has begun.
Because people no longer commune with millstones.
Yes, Apple will say again that it has been another sales record.
But what can you expect it to say? Who have lost money?
For stocks to plummet?
Greetings to all, I recommend not to buy the iPad Pro at least not at the moment, especially to those who want to use it as a tablet for digital art. I bought mine a month ago and the screen freezes, turns gray and streaks. Investigate and there are many complaints about this problem on the screen, apple has not discovered the problem yet and they have been investigating for two months and even after the recommendation to fix that appears on apple support, the situation persists. There are also other problems of loading and non-sensitivity of the screen at certain times, but the latter I did not experience with my ipad. I took my ipad to the apple store and they told me that since 15 days had passed since the purchase, they could not change it but they would take it to repair it. Several days later they returned it to me but the problem continues today one day after receiving it and finding the problem again I am communicating this in the related forums, because this problem has meant a loss of money for me as a graphic artist, in jobs that require this tool and of time since I have had to resort to my mac to do the work in a more limited way. In addition, I have spent money in the mail to send it since where I live there are no apple stores. Sadly and with pain in my soul after this second attempt, I am currently considering asking for my money back. Since I have wasted a lot of time and money. As my recommendation, if not extremely necessary, do not buy the iPad Pro at least this year, consider it as an option later when it is a product that has been on the market for a long time and these defects have been corrected. I am really very upset and I am not recommending this to anyone.
5 years later this evolved in favor I guess xD
Nowadays the best to draw digitally is the current ipad pro of 2020
but hey it still doesn't work that much for 3D, Sharp3D is close but still far from Solid or Autodesk
want to be digital illustrators? go for ipad
Ugh, wacom beats him in quality price in artistic matter, besides being by HDMI, it does not have a solid battery, so it lasts much longer, instead, an iPad, at most 4 years and I am exaggerating