Help, need tablet.

[Life]

Hey guys. I need a tablet. But not just for fun stuff like skype and games and crap. I need it to edit photos. I need to be able to put a program on it like photoshop or lightroom or photoscape 5. I'm trying to avoid buying an apple one that costs $500+... I'd really love to stay down under in the range of maybe $200 at the top end. Maybe $300 ONLY depending if a keyoard and mouse and so on can be hooked up. Many thanks!

P.S. The reason I need t oedit stuff on it is because I want to get rid of this desktop and switch solely to something cheaper and very portable. And I DON'T want it to be a laptop unless I can get it for really cheap from someone.

 

[robbins.photo]

Hey guys. I need a tablet. But not just for fun stuff like skype and games and crap. I need it to edit photos. I need to be able to put a program on it like photoshop or lightroom or photoscape 5. I'm trying to avoid buying an apple one that costs $500+... I'd really love to stay down under in the range of maybe $200 at the top end. Maybe $300 ONLY depending if a keyoard and mouse and so on can be hooked up. Many thanks!

P.S. The reason I need t oedit stuff on it is because I want to get rid of this desktop and switch solely to something cheaper and very portable. And I DON'T want it to be a laptop unless I can get it for really cheap from someone.

Well I really doubt your going to find a tablet that's going to be able to run photoshop in that price range. You can get some nice android tablets in that range but for something with enough horsepower to run a full version of windows and photoshop? Well seriously doubt you'll find anything for $200 or even close. You might be able to find maybe an older motion computing LE 1700 - but it's probably going to be underpowered for what you want.

I'd suggest you seriously consider a good dual core laptop with at least 4 gb of memory, you'll get a lot more bang for your buck than you will a tablet.

 

[Life]

Hey guys. I need a tablet. But not just for fun stuff like skype and games and crap. I need it to edit photos. I need to be able to put a program on it like photoshop or lightroom or photoscape 5. I'm trying to avoid buying an apple one that costs $500+... I'd really love to stay down under in the range of maybe $200 at the top end. Maybe $300 ONLY depending if a keyoard and mouse and so on can be hooked up. Many thanks!

P.S. The reason I need t oedit stuff on it is because I want to get rid of this desktop and switch solely to something cheaper and very portable. And I DON'T want it to be a laptop unless I can get it for really cheap from someone.

Well I really doubt your going to find a tablet that's going to be able to run photoshop in that price range. You can get some nice android tablets in that range but for something with enough horsepower to run a full version of windows and photoshop? Well seriously doubt you'll find anything for $200 or even close. You might be able to find maybe an older motion computing LE 1700 - but it's probably going to be underpowered for what you want.

I'd suggest you seriously consider a good dual core laptop with at least 4 gb of memory, you'll get a lot more bang for your buck than you will a tablet.

Thanks but, I didn't say full version of windows. you can also send links to any that WOULD run ANY decent editing program, and then at least I know whats out there. And I pointed out I really don't want a laptop. Thanks but unfortunately not what I was wanting to hear. But thanks for your time anyways

 

[robbins.photo]

Hey guys. I need a tablet. But not just for fun stuff like skype and games and crap. I need it to edit photos. I need to be able to put a program on it like photoshop or lightroom or photoscape 5. I'm trying to avoid buying an apple one that costs $500+... I'd really love to stay down under in the range of maybe $200 at the top end. Maybe $300 ONLY depending if a keyoard and mouse and so on can be hooked up. Many thanks!

P.S. The reason I need t oedit stuff on it is because I want to get rid of this desktop and switch solely to something cheaper and very portable. And I DON'T want it to be a laptop unless I can get it for really cheap from someone.

Well I really doubt your going to find a tablet that's going to be able to run photoshop in that price range. You can get some nice android tablets in that range but for something with enough horsepower to run a full version of windows and photoshop? Well seriously doubt you'll find anything for $200 or even close. You might be able to find maybe an older motion computing LE 1700 - but it's probably going to be underpowered for what you want.

I'd suggest you seriously consider a good dual core laptop with at least 4 gb of memory, you'll get a lot more bang for your buck than you will a tablet.

Thanks but, I didn't say full version of windows. you can also send links to any that WOULD run ANY decent editing program, and then at least I know whats out there. And I pointed out I really don't want a laptop. Thanks but unfortunately not what I was wanting to hear. But thanks for your time anyways

I'm not aware of any image editing program that you're going to be able to run on anything other than a full version of windows or a full version of Mac OS - at least not any that are really worth having.

But I'll wish you well in your search.

 

[Life]

Thanks. Who knows, maybe i'll get one of them win (****) 8 tablet things that turn into a laptop or tablet. I just don't like the high $$ :/ Why can't Microsoft make something simple, usefull, and not break your wallet at the same time.

 

[robbins.photo]

Thanks. Who knows, maybe i'll get one of them win (****) 8 tablet things that turn into a laptop or tablet. I just don't like the high $$ :/ Why can't Microsoft make something simple, usefull, and not break your wallet at the same time.

Well tablets that have enough horsepower to run photoshop are a relatively expensive proposition, not much space in a tablet and heat distribution is a huge concern, so if you go with a higher power processor that can keep up with the requirements of running a full OS it gets to be a pretty big engineering challenge building something that can do that and dissipate the heat.

Android tablets are a lot cheaper because you don't need a big, powerful processor to run a light weight OS like android, and you don't need tons of storage space like a full hard drive, so right away your looking at cutting out a lot of heat right there as well as a lot of your power requirements to run the thing - so much easier to engineer and thus much cheaper.

Unfortunately I don't know of any image editing programs that are really worth having that don't require either a full version of Windows or Mac OS X to run - and I don't think your going to get a tablet powerful enough to run either well in that price range - at least not something with a touch screen. You might be able to get an old fujitsu or motion computing tablet, it will be underpowered for what you want and require a stylus, and you'd most likely have to spend more than $200 even for one of those to get one in good shape.

So honestly in that price range a laptop really will be your best bet - but like I said I'll wish you well in your search.

 

[pixmedic]

one and only warning.
play nice.
if you cant say something in a civil manner, don't post it.

 

[Theo2]

Photoshop Touch (which is by no means Photoshop, but it isn't half bad) runs on most android tablets and works for me when I'm on the go. It's great to have a tablet to review your photos when you're taking nature shots.

But for full fledged editing I'd suggest a cheaper laptop. Tablets are usually more expensive.

 

[Tinderbox (UK)]

The new Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4" or 10.5" has an oled screen whether you prefer them to lcd is you own preference.

John.

 

[Life]

Photoshop touch, can edit photos? This would be exactly what I would need for an android tablet. Do you know the specs the tablet needs to run it well? Thanks

 

[JClishe]

Let me Bing that for you!

 

[Theo2]

https://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-3281

It works well on my old galaxy note 10.1, check out the FAQ for your device!

 

[snowbear113 45]

How stable is the color calibration on tablets?

 

[KmH]

While desktop computer sales are dwindling, most image editing/graphic arts professionals are not giving up their desktop computers.
Just the opposite. Those pros continue to upgrade their desktop systems.

 

[astroNikon]

FYI My touchscreen windows 8.1 dell laptop was only $350
6gb 250gb hd ... Great for processing Lightroom so far attached to my 3TB external USB drive

if you are going to be processing photos where are you going to have the files?
you will have to use something to get them initially uploaded
so hopefully you can connect the camera or SD card to it but you may run out of local storage quickly then will need cloud storage

of the tablets I've used the cheap ones are so slow and have cheap network/wifi antennas ... Basically you get what you pay for
For a little more you can get alot more like my laptop from Walmart