[IxDA Discuss] Drawing and Sketching on Tablet PCs

[Ken Bryson]

 As a former member of the Alias Sketchbook Pro development team (I have
the fleece to prove it!), I heartily recommend Sketchbook Pro.  There
will likely never be another update to it, but the usability team at
Alias did an awesome job getting all the "need to have" features in
Sketchbook Pro working great for the 2.0 (and final) release.

Under the fancy Sketchbook UI it's the same sketching technology that
ships within the Alias AutoStudio (US$50000+) software used to design
cars at all the big three automakers.  I don't think a $25 sketching app
will compete with it any time soon for sketching.


-Ken



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Ron
Vutpakdi
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 8:10 PM
To: A S
Cc: IxDA Discuss
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Drawing and Sketching on Tablet PCs

A S wrote:
> A prior thread on this (http://beta.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=2680)
> though a bit more emphasis on hardware rather than software. I find 
> Alias Sketchbook Pro to be a pretty wonderful product . . . Anyone
> know when there will be a Mac tablet (built by Apple)?!    - AS
>   

Unfortunately, while I very much like Sketchbook Pro, I believe that
Autodesk has essentially put Sketchbook Pro into end of life mode.  You
should still be able to buy Sketchbook Pro, but there hasn't been a new
version in some time.

A much cheaper competitor is ArtRage2
(http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html).  I don't know how it
compares to Sketchbook Pro except for the price.

Apple will probably release a tablet once someone convinces Jobs that
it'll make business sense to do so.  They'll also have to design one
"cool" enough for Jobs. 

Ron


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