Testing Luna Display and Astropad on Windows 

But pro is also subscription, right?

The standard one with a wired connection is REALLY good too. And that one is a single time buy.

and for people who arent very techy, you want to close your browser if you have it open because that uses a lot of Cpu and ram

Thanks for this suggestion. I'm super impressed by how smoothly EasyCanvas works! I don't need wireless support, but that also works pretty smoothly. Wired is the way to go for low latency though.

Did you found a way to have gesture shortcut on it?

Are you using Duet with Windows or Mac?

Good to know!

hehe, thanks!

Literally was looking for exactly this review

depends on the size that you want i guess. i never really got the point of small tablets since phones are now almost the same size as the ipad mini. for eye comfort and drawing experience id go with the 2018 pro because it has a bigger screen for you to draw on

I would 10000% go with the iPad Pro

It’s almost impossible tu use an iPad pro for media consumption at least on bed or on a couch comfortably… while the mini is perfect for that (typing this comment on a mini while in bed)

if you want a Table Only tablet, get the Pro. if you want to move around, couch surf, etc with your tablet, then get the mini!

How are you liking your laptop studio? I just bought the new one but the screen's response time is so noticeably bad, even when browsing the web or scrolling on VS code, that I'm thinking of returning it and getting an iPad pro + a laptop instead... I thought one device would be perfect but the screen feels terrible to use. Were you able to use a mac as a second screen?

You can connect your pc and tablet based on Windows just through screen share, pen pressure works fine

Not trying to be rude, im genuinely curious why would you need that

@@SuperLovehp Happy to answer :) For the same reason I have a multi monitor set up in my studio. I prefer to use ClipStudio. On my desktop I use a Cintiq and put a zoomed out view of my work on a second monitor. If I could pair two iOS devices I could do that conveniently instead of flipping back and forth between tabs or zooming in and out. I could also move some menus over to the second iPad and use touch, giving me the whole 12" Pro for drawing surface instead of minimizing menus. A very 21st Century artist problem that's not really a problem, but it would make work when I'm in a hotel much more convenient :)

@@lardesouza Thanks for the detailed explanation! Sounds like an interesting setup

Works great for me aswell, tab s6 lite. Hope to see a review, quite the price diff

I need to jump back into android and see what's out there at some point. It's been years since I've tried anything and back then it wasn't very good.

@@thebradcolbow Try super display on tab s7+, I'm quite sure you will not be disappointed. Thanks again for your great reviews

@@thebradcolbow Bad you should review the new Lenovo Tab P12 Pro android tablet!

SuperDisplay is seriously great. ❤️

Samsung tablets, atleast the newer ones, (S series), can natively do this

@@thrashkid665plus1 don't think I want a Samsung, looking at a Lenovo Xiaoxin with the 870 CPU.

@@themadatheist1976 there is also twomonusb which is a one time buy and works like spacedesk except no wireless connection mode

@@themadatheist1976 May I ask why? I have played with a ton of them, and the S-pen is just the gold standard for drawing. Apple Pencil is on the same level but different. I think the difference between the two is really subjective depending on the type of art you do. I looked at the Xiaomi, and the price is the only reason I could see someone choosing that. As for drawing that pen still lags behind the s-pen. I would say the same with Lenovo. I saw that Theo on tech review review a Lenovo tab, and it had horrible ghosting.

@@sloppynyuszi mainly the price for what you get. I'm not a artist so pen performance isn't that important.

I'm not an artist, but I can see an immediate reason in that you get to use tech you're already familiar with in a more convenient way. Plus, if you already have an iPad and carry it with you, then bringing an extra drawing tablet is excessive. At $129 for the dongle which appears to run worse than with a cable (but could get better with more software updates) it does seem too expensive. I'm not super well versed in drawing tablets, but you certainly can't get one with as nice a screen as the iPad for $129. This may seem like an unfair comparison, but this product is aimed at someone who already has the iPad. The corded option with Astropad seemed pretty solid even in the beta state presented in the video. Selling the software for say $30-40 would be a fair price for the functionality.

​@@tungstenivoxide2407 1) it's not tech you're more familiar with, though. Luna is a screen mirror and Astropad adds a new interface to your tablet. So any previous familiarity of the iPad is pretty pointless outside of "pinch to zoom." This isn't a huge learning curve, but it's not like a drawing tablet is some mystical device either. The whole thing, both astropad and tablets, are designed to get out of the way so you can draw. It seems a dedicated tablet will do it better for cheaper. (i'll get to the whole price thing in a minute) 2) The dongle has been around for a long while now (2017), if they haven't sorted out the issues by now, they're not going to. Sure the iPad has a nice screen, but for $200 you can get the Kamvas 12 from huion (or XP Pen Artist 12). So for $70 extra you get a reliable and HD screen. The iPad's screen isn't amazing enough to default to that for your drawing. And it doesn't matter if you already have an iPad anyway, cause you're not saving anything. You need to buy something EXTRA here to make it work in this fashion regardless. So you can buy the Dongle/Astropad or a Tablet. 3) Astropad is beta only for Windows. It's been around much longer for Mac, which I've used. I really liked it, but I didn't continue when they went subscription model. While I agree that the software would be fair priced at $30-$40 (actually I'll even say $50-$60 one time), it's not. $80 every YEAR is steep. And remember, photoshop itself, at it's cheapest plan, is $120 a year. So...every year you're paying $200 just to make photoshop work --fairly well-- on an iPad. So, all told, first year with Astropad, Luna, and Photoshop: _$330 (then $200/year) Kamvas 12 and Photoshop:______$320 (then $120/year) Bottom line: the ONLY benefit here is the iPad's screen....but is it REALLY worth all that extra money?

@@kalvineldridge I agree with you mostly. But as a 3D artist, I can see the benefit of Astropad in certain use cases. First of all, I mostly use zBrush for modelling and thankfully it's a one-time pay software. So, a user who is not using subscription based software like Photoshop is going to benefit more. And I condemn piracy, but there are people out there who are using pirated versions of Photoshop, so it doesn't cost them anything. Secondly, having to carry an extra device matters more when you're travelling. I personally kind of lived a nomadic life before covid, and was on constantly on travel trips for the better parts of the year. For people like me at that time (before covid), every extra gear you needed to carry mattered. And carrying a tablet (even a small one) didn't made sense when it's just extra weight most of the time expect when I have to draw. But since I have my iPad, I can draw whenever and wherever I am, and don't need to connect to my laptop if I'm just drawing. And an iPad can do a lot more than just allow you to draw. Therefore, it makes more sense to carry an iPad with me than a graphic tablet. And having the ability to turn my iPad into a graphic tablet to do some 3D modelling using zBrush with sidecar or Astropad is an added bonus. I do have a Huion Kamvas 20 inch graphic tablet at home, which I use when I'm at home, but even if I had a 12inch small portable tablet, I would choose to carry my iPad while travelling at any given day. Don't get me wrong, I love my Huion Kamvas, and do agree that a dedicated graphic tablet gets the job done much more efficiently than my iPad when I'm working on zBrush for client projects. But for what I do, my iPad can also get the job done (albeit with some minor frustrations here and there), and it doesn't affects the overall quality of the final result for the client.

@@kalvineldridge Was thinking I could justify buying an iPad for this, but since they decided it's going to be subscription based I laughed and said no.

Coming soon!

I've gotten used to drawing digitally almost exclusively.

Hi mate. How do you connect Luba display from pc to iMac with a cable?

Well, Astropad was the first on Mac and then Apple copied it and named that Sidecar.

@@thealt188 but you can get pro create soo why not use native software?

to do some work while your real drawing tablet/display is away from you, to draw like that non-stop I think is just masochistic :)

@@p0stezz but you can work on the ipad without using your laptop?? Procreate is a wonderful program so like why bother connecting your laptop?

@@EvaCampbell well I draw as a hobby and procreate is perfectly capable even though I prefer CSP and sketchbook.But for work I use couple of 3d programs so the Ipad is useless.I tried all these programs to turn the ipad into a drawing display but the experience is still worse than using even non-display tablet. I got best results with easycanvas for ios and superdisplay for android.

Yep! Infact, your the first

Wired sidecar is basically that though. It uses the usb c for video like hmdi c monitors and for the pen data back.

Thanks!

@@thebradcolbow your welcome