I am looking for a suitable price/value ratio tablet for Krita

If someone draws on a tablet, what would you recommend?
As an Android tablet, I was thinking of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE 6gb/128gb
I also looked at Xiaomi’s, but I have no idea what kind of pencil to buy, because it is said that Xiaomi’s pencil is not good.
I was thinking about these. I don’t know how it is compatible with the program and some kind of pencil.:
Xiaomi Redmi Pad SE 8gb/256gb
Xiaomi Redmi Pad 4gb/128gb
Xiaomi Pad 6 6gb/128gb
Within Honor:
Honor Pad X9 4GB/128GB
Honor Pad 8 128GB 6GB RAM 5301ADJN
I’m not sure about Lenovo. Unfortunately, they only offer two years of software updates, and unfortunately one of them has already gone down.
As far as I know, the iPad is not yet compatible with Krita, so I won’t even describe the ones I looked at here.
Within Windows:
Microsoft Surface Pro 4

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As far as price for what you get goes, you can’t go wrong with the S9 FE. It’s what I would recommend to my students when they are looking for the same value to price.

As long as you are already an android person, I would say stay with android, but if you’re an apple person, you probably don’t want to try to make the switch just for a “krita device”.

I use an ipad pro and s9 ultra myself and find myself spending most my time on the s9.

Just my own two cents, take it for what it’s worth.

Post Script: Just make sure you don’t get anything with LESS than 128 storage. It drives me crazy that a company would even sell anything with only 64GB in this day and age. I, personally, would start with 256 and go up from there, but definitely no LESS than 128 - especially if you are using it for creative work. That’s another thing I love about samsung’s devices - upgradable storage with micro SD. That and the fact you get a fantastic stylus (the s-pen) with the device, instead of having to shell out another $130 for one.

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I would take none of them. Most of the listed ones don’t even satisfy Krita’s minimum requirements. If you want to do more than work on 1000px doodles with a few layers, everything with 4GB or less of ram is too weak. And you want a big screen because Krita’s interface is not optimized for small screen handheld devices. And you probably want one that has a pen that has pressure sensitivity (which most don’t have).

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Sounds a bit harsh, but I think I agree :confused:

Not sure if anyone considered this, but there’s also an option of using a normal pen tablet with an Android device. That way you potentially can get a decently cheap device with a good pen and pressure and use the tablet as a screen.

However, I’m not sure if there’s a make and model that works robustly with Android. I own a few Huion devices, which are otherwise excellent, but with an Android tablet (I tried Xiaomi Pad 5) it just doesn’t work too great at all. For example, there only really is a phone mode and for some inexplicably idiotic reason you can’t use it in landscape mode :neutral_face: Granted, I didn’t have a compelling reason to figure it all out and make it work, so maybe there’s a setup that would work well. I’m definitely interested if anyone figured it out.