There are lots of tools on the market designed to help digital creation, however several are hampered by their package or a physical setup that needs you to remain at your desk. The Wacom MobileStudio professional 16 (starts at $2,399.95; $2,999.95 as tested), on the opposite hand, could be a drawing tablet that works equally well in your workplace, at home, or on the road. It is a extremely specialised product that may take some adjustment to use to the utmost. However as a result of it runs full Windows 10, you have got a nearly unlimited choice of powerful software. This, combined with quick elements, a high-resolution display, and a snug and intuitive pen, the MobileStudio professional 16 could be a capable, thoughtfully designed tablet for artists.
Your Mobile Canvas
The tablet reviewed here is the larger and more potent of the two versions of the MobileStudio Pro (the other is the more modestly outfitted 13-inch MobileStudio Pro 13, which ranges in price from $1,499.95 to $2,499.95). The display itself is 15.6 inches, while the tablet as a whole measures 0.75 by 16.5 by 10.3 inches (HWD) and weighs 4.86 pounds. Holding it in one arm can get tiring quickly, but you're more likely to rest it in your lap or on a desk when drawing, anyway. The Wacom Stand, sold separately for $99.95, can prop up the MobileStudio Pro 16 at a variety of angles, too. There are silicone grips on the rear aspect of the pill at each ends, for the days you're holding or propping it up. The black and silver colour scheme offers the tablet a sleek look.
The roomy touch display's resolution is 4K (3,840 by 2,160); any artist should appreciate this, as higher resolution is better for individual pixel work. Images look vibrant, and the finish prevents irritating reflections. The display covers 94 percent of the Adobe RGB color spectrum, which is good, though it's a bit disappointing that this art-focused device does not hit 100 percent. Laptops aimed at creatives often boast 100 percent coverage to reproduce completely accurate colors, which is important for matching what you see on the screen to real-life colors on samples or prints.
Multiple Ways to Create
In addition to the touch-screen input, there square measure variety of physical buttons to assist with executing controls and shortcuts. On the left-hand side are a four-direction rocker ring with a middle-click button, and two columns of four buttons above and below it. Other Wacom devices have buttons like these within the same place, thus if you have used one in every of those, you must have a simple time adapting. These buttons are designed to avoid wasting you the time required to move duplicate to the toolbar if you are not usiing a keyboard, and having a group of commands on hand speeds up any process once you memorise the setup. You could, of course, connect the tablet to a keyboard via Bluetooth thus you'll use key combination you are a lot of familiar with, however that may reduce the MobileStudio Pro's movableness somewhat.
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By using the Wacom Tablet Properties interface (accessible through Windows or the Wacom Desktop Center app), you can assign a variety of different shortcuts to these hardware controls. You may want to configure the touch ring to rotate or auto scroll, one button to activate a specific key combination, a third to act as the Shift key, and so on, and you can have a different set of assignments for each program you use (Photoshop and Illustrator are somewhat different, after all). Through the Wacom utility you can also make other adjustments, such as deactivating the touch screen in Illustrator, so you don't have to worry about your hand smudging the digital canvas.
Last but certainly not least is the included Wacom Pro Pen 2, which is your main tool for manipulating the touch screen. It features 8,192 levels of pressure sensitivity, as well as tilt and multitouch support. The back end can be used as an eraser, a concept inherently comfortable to most users, and the two slim buttons toward the tip can either be used for their default functions of left- and right-clicking, or be assigned different commands in the Wacom app. You can read our artist's impressions of using the pen below, but it's highly customizable, and its lack of battery removes a potentially irritating aspect of digital art. Like the Apple Pencil, which is designed to work with the Apple iPad Pro, the Pen 2 lets you make the most of the MobileStudio Pro.
Full Windows Power
As mentioned, the MobileStudio Pro 16 is a full Windows 10 tablet, not merely a drawing device that runs pared-down versions of creative software. That means it supports the same programs you're used to on a PC, and may also be used for browsing the web, checking your email, and doing anything else you can on manage on your laptop. The on-board SSD has a capacity of 512GB, which is a good amount for storing all different types of media projects and other files, though it could potentially fill up relatively quickly if you have a lot of raw photos or 4K video clips. In addition to Bluetooth 4.1, the MobileStudio features 802.11ac wireless, a 5-megapixel (MP) front camera, and an 8MP back camera equipped with Intel RealSense technology for capturing objects in 3D space. You also get a 12-month license for using Artec Studio 11 Ultimate 3D scanning and processing software.
To reduce lag or delay while working in your favorite demanding Adobe program (and to generally run all Windows programs quickly), there's a 3.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i7-6567U processor and 16GB of memory. On the graphics side, there's a professional-class Nvidia Quadro M1000M discrete card. Other physical buttons and ports include a Power slider on the left flank alongside a headphone jack, volume buttons, and an SD card slot. The right edge holds three USB-C ports for charging with the included power brick and connecting peripherals (there are no USB Type-A ports, so you'll need adapters if they don't already use USB-C), as well as a Kensington security slot.
Performance
Because the MobileStudio Pro 16 is designed for a different purpose and audience than conventional Windows tablets or laptops, and because we haven't reviewed many directly comparable products, we didn't perform our typical full battery of performance tests. Still, to get an idea of how it stacks up to other tablets, we pitted it against the 2016 Microsoft Surface Book ($3,299 in our review configuration) in two of our basic performance tests. On PCMark 8 Work Conventional, the MobileStudio Pro 16's score of 2,637 was just a few steps behind the Surface Book's (2,735). And with its score of 368, the Wacom surpassed the Surface Book's 326 on the CineBench R15 rendering test. Given the systems' similar processors, these performance numbers were not surprising. In any case, you should have little trouble running any of the software you need to do your everyday design work.
On our battery rundown test, the MobileStudio Pro 16 lasted 3 hours, 43 minutes. That's quite close to what we saw when we ran a similar test on the 12.9-inch Apple iPad Pro (3:51), but nowhere close to the Surface Book's 15:41. As with a gaming laptop, the MobileStudio Pro 16 is big enough that you won't likely use it very far away from a power outlet for long periods of time, whereas the Surface Book and similar tablets are designed specifically to travel with you. Wacom rates the MobileStudio Pro 16's battery life at about 6 hours, and under normal usage conditions, which doesn't seem out of the question, and when our designer tested the tablet (see the next section), he had no specific complaints about the battery life. Still, the MobileStudio Pro 16's battery life is not legendary, so keep that in mind while planning your day.
An Artist's Perspective
If you're interested in using the MobileStudio Pro 16 for its intended purpose of drawing, chances are its exact performance will matter less to you than how it functions in the real world of design. To learn how it fares in the hands of a genuine creative type, one of PCMag's in-house designers, James Jacobsen, tested the tablet for a couple of weeks and attempted to integrate it into his normal workflow. Here's his description of his experience.
General comments. With the available screen real estate, the program interfaces feel clean, and for the most part the MobileStudio Pro 16 is fast and responsive. Using the pen quickly became second nature in my testing. Web searching by handwriting-to-text conversion was about 95 percent accurate, though that will vary depending on your penmanship. On the whole, the screen looks on par with, or maybe even better than, the display on my 15-inch MacBook Pro. And the shortcut buttons' placement is vastly superior here, as a keyboard often gets between you and the screen.
Adobe Photoshop. One distinctive feature of the MobileStudio Pro 16 while using Photoshop is canvas rotation, so you can easily change your point of view on what you're drawing just by pinching and rotating the image on the screen. This is an interesting bonus that might be good for print designers, but as I primarily work on the web, I didn't find it all that helpful; most of my work is straight-on. But for those who do draw and sketch in Photoshop, this is a clear plus over competing tablets.
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The shortcut buttons are nice, but as I rely heavily on muscle memory, learning them was not easy. A week or two using the MobileStudio Pro wasn't enough to fully adjust to the system, and I often had to switch back to my MacBook to meet my deadlines. To see if it was just me, I handed the tablet off to one of my colleagues in the art department, who became frustrated and gave up after only 30 minutes. While I don't see the buttons as major negatives if you have the time to commit to them, it may take you a while if you've been using the same keyboard shortcuts for years.
Adobe Illustrator. The first thing I noticed was a bit of lag when I opened a 460MB multilayered vector file. I sometimes experience some lag on my MacBook when opening this file if I have other programs running, but Illustrator was the only thing running on the MobileStudio at the time.
All of my drawing and illustrating is done in Illustrator, so I was excited to use it to test the limits of the rotating canvas. To my dismay, however, it wasn't available. I searched for about half an hour, but found nothing that indicated it was a feature, which is confusing given its inclusion in Photoshop. (Others online mentioned noticing its absence as well.) This would be good functionality to add for Illustrator.
Handling vectors and points with the pen was amazing, though. I felt like I had a lot more control moving and adjusting my vectors than I do with a mouse. Drawing felt natural and accurate, almost as if I was using pen and paper. If there's any single incentive to push through all the relearning the MobileStudio Pro 16 requires, it would be to do all my illustrations and artwork.
Worth It, If You Can Commit
Ultimately, the Wacom MobileStudio Pro 16 is best seen as a drawing tablet with an unusually rich set of capabilities. It can't really replace a full computer, but it gives you a lot of opportunities you don't get with other portable drawing devices or even the (far less expensive) Apple iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil. The ability the PC-grade components give you to run full-featured software is a big plus, as you don't have to worry about compromising on features. And the screen's spacious surface and high resolution are ideal for Illustrator and other drawing programs; you're unlikely to find a more enjoyable or intuitive way to use them.
For the MobileStudio professional 16 to be price its high value, you've got to understand you would like it, and be willing to take a position the required time to master its unique feature and attempt to learning them within and out. If not, you will be more contented with a a lot of ancient Wacom device or a tablet just like the iPad professional or the Microsoft Surface Book. However if you are a determined digital creative person who will afford it (or have your leader offer it for you), the MobileStudio professional 16 could be a terribly appealing resolution you'll probably return to like.
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