Now the Surface Pro has no disc drive of any kind. Obviously the first thing I installed was Steam but the second thing was Photoshop. Anything you can put on your PC you can put on here.
It also means you’re not limited to apps from the windows store. What that means is that you can switch over from the live tile centric Windows 8 UI to a classic desktop experience whenever you like. In case you’re confused (and I would not blame you) the difference is that the RT is essentially just a tablet whereas the Pro is actually a full windows 8 PC. I want to start by saying that this is the Surface Pro not the Surface RT. The first one being about using the Surface Pro to draw and the second focused on how the machine handled the games I threw at it. I’m going to break my impressions into two sections. A few days later I had a brand new 128gb Surface Pro to play with.
I came home and mentioned on Twitter that I was interested in the Surface Pro as a drawing platform and I was contacted by MS and offered a machine to test out (I love my job). The demo machine only had one drawing app on it called Fresh Paint which seems like it’s mostly for kids but it was enough to see that the pen felt good and the pressure sensitivity was solid.
I went down to our local MS store to try one on the day they launched. When I read that the Surface Pro uses Wacom tech I was interested. I gave the iPad a shot but I don’t like drawing with the “eraser tip” capacitive touch styluses. Since the old Windows tablet computers I’ve been looking for a good way to draw digitally on the go. I love gadgets and drawing so it only makes sense that I’ve always been curious about gadgets you can draw on. I was aware of the Surface Pro but I wasn’t especially interested in it until I heard it came with a stylus and supported pressure sensitivity.
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