So maybe you should choose the tablets based on what else you may want to do with the tablets instead. If you're only into drawing, both tablets are great for drawing. leading, kerning, line space, indents, paragraph spacing, justification, alignment. When I talk about graphic design, I'm particularly interested at how those apps handle typography, fonts, layout, vector path and shapes, and the adjustments possible.įor example to create the specs comparison table below is easy with Adobe Illustrator but extremely challenging with the Samsung tablets due to the lack of graphic design apps with good typography and font controls, e.g. On the iPad are apps such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher. One area the iPads have over the Samsung tablets is the graphic design apps available from the Apple App Store are much better in quality and have more features. Both Apple Pencil 2 and Samsung S Pen are accurate, have good pressure sensitivity, consistent and predictable performance. Bottom lineįor drawing purposes, both M1 iPad Pros and Tab S8 tablets are on par. The only reason why I have two flagship tablets is because I happen to have a tech channel on Youtube.

I've been using the Apple M1 iPad Pro 12.9 since May 2021 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra since Feb 2022. This is also an update to the iPad Pro 2020 vs Tab S7 article I wrote 2 years ago. Which is better? That's a question I get asked so often so here's the article that will hopefully answer that. M1 iPad Pro vs Samsung Tab S8 for drawing and graphic design.

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