Best 2-in-1 laptop for Affinity Designer?

[izzylr]

Hi everyone!  

 

I've been using Affinity Designer for years on my old 2-in-1 Asus Vivobook Flip 14" and it worked so nicely. Unfortunately, it broke, so I need to buy another laptop/tablet. I really want another touchscreen, stylus-supporting 2-in-1 that I can use for all of my business needs and then also do art as a hobby on it too. Minimum 16GB RAM.

I would be so grateful for your recommendations and whether Affinity works well on them! 

I am interested in buying a Surface Pro 8, HP Spectre x360 or Surface Laptop Studio - do you know if Affinity works on these and if they are good?

[v_kyr]

Well usually there is no real BEST one advice here, since the whole always also highly depends on several hardware & software factors here, like having a moderate CPU/GPU combo, enough RAM & SSD capacity, a good responsive touch display etc. Next all the possible and setup/configured software dependencies, like Win OS Version, Win libs, a supported GPU driver and good stylus support etc., which all might can trouble AD under certain circumstances. - IMO the actual Affinity software apps themself (like AD) aren't yet/still that good adopted to the latest/newest OS versions (Win 11 & MacOS Monterey) and their evolving updates.

So if actual Affinity apps do work overall good on some hardware depends on a bunch of side effects/factors here, beside some requirements for the hardware itself, mostly on OS versions, it's accompanied libraries and third party driver software.

Said that, I believe in order to make some hardware buying decision then, you should best orientate on certain sites which do test, compare and rate such 2-in-1 hardware, since only few users here in the forum will have used all or some of the possible 2-in-1 vendor models here.

Thus, see for 2-in-1 hardware tests, reviews, ratings etc. sites like these:

• The Best Convertible Notebooks (2-in-1 Laptops)
• The Best 2-in-1 Convertible and Hybrid Laptops for 2022
• Best 2-in-1 laptops in 2022
• ... and so on ...

 

 

[izzylr]

Thank you very much for your assistance with this! May I ask what devices you use?

I would love to hear from others who use 2-in-1 devices and what your experiences are too, and from staff at Affinity as to whether Windows 11 supports Affinity well.

[v_kyr]

1 hour ago, izzylr said:

May I ask what devices you use?

I use Affinity apps under MacOS and thus Mac hardware (an iMac and MacBook Pro), I don't use it under Windows.