Manga Studio actually works fine without it, but I figured I’d end up needing it anyhow. When I got my Surface Pro, the first thing I did was install Manga Studio and the WinTab driver from Wacom, which is supposed to give pressure sensitivity to programs like Photoshop. Having done my research, I also placed an order for a Wacom Bamboo Feel stylus, which was reported by some folks to be more responsive, as well as an external optical drive, which I would need to install Manga Studio which I had on DVD-ROM. Anyhow, I was pretty sold and placed a pre-order. They only had the pre-installed Fresh Paint app to play around with, but I was impressed with the responsiveness of the stylus and overall look and feel of the product. The woman that helped me was incredibly nice and was able to answer all my questions and gave me a nice tour of Windows 8. I had heard some internet jibber-jabber about the Surface Pro and decided to head to the Microsoft Store to try one out.

I will tell you that all in all, I think their hardware specs inside are about the same. I’m not going to post all the ins and outs of the hardware here because you can find them in other places.

It was going to be between the Surface Pro 2 and the Cintiq Companion, but which one was it going to be? I’ve spent the last two weeks with both of them and figured I’d post my experience here.Īlthough I’m a nerd and am into stats and numbers analysis, especially when it comes to gaming and/or basketball, I’m not really a big tech hardware dude. I’ll do some long overdue art posts soon.Įver since I got wind about these tablets that are running full Windows 8 and have pressure sensitive screens, I sold my laptop and decided to jump all over that. I’m dusting off this blog to write up a post about art… er, I mean computers.

Cintiq companion 2 driver update