http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/ Engadget Comments for MSI shows off convertible 'SketchBook' laptop concept http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/
I agree. If they keep it cheap its definitely a nice little netbook. I really don't see the downside of having that pad. It would be great while using one note during class.]]>May 20th 2010 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/
Mine too. I'm still waiting for a replacement to a paper notebook.

The death of Courier still stings.]]>May 20th 2010 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/
Yeah thats the thing with MS, they come up with stunning prototypes and drop them at the 11th hour.

If I had a £1 for every good idea that MS came up with and screwed up, i'd actually have more cash than Bill himself.]]>May 20th 2010 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/I genuinely do not understand this, if you aren't drawing directly onto the screen then how do you know where you're drawing on your designs? How will you know where the pen is on the screen in relation to the touch pad? Is this just an incredibly stupid moment for me or would a digitizer not make 1000 times more sense?]]>May 20th 2010 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/Lmao how do you think its been done for so many years. From my experience (not much) most designers still use a separate tablet or slate when sketching, shading etc.]]>May 20th 2010 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/
That shouldn't surprise you since.... they're a software company]]>May 20th 2010 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/
I'm spoiled]]>May 20th 2010 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/Admittedly anal, but F22's aren't carrier based.]]>May 20th 2010 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/
F35?]]>May 20th 2010 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/
@proee +1 for being misunderstood]]>May 20th 2010 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/I do touch type on my iPad. Just stick small pieces of chewing gum on f and j.

No butons is growing like hell. ]]>May 20th 2010 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/
This has a keyboard. It flips over to use the digitizer.]]>May 20th 2010 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/
If it is truly made for sketching, then make it a portable version of Wacom's Cintiq in which you draw right on the screen... basically a TABLET.

If you are going to draw without having a screen behind it (and instead have to look elsewhere for the image), then just buy a $5 paper sketchbook and scan in the designs when you are near a computer.

Nothing beats pencil on paper.]]>May 20th 2010 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/
completely agree. I was using an Intuos for years and it took me some time getting used to draw on the pad and looking at the monitor, but in the end it worked out pretty well, tho like you said, I was mostly drawing on paper, scanning and tracing lines and adding detail in Photoshop with the Wacom

Then I went for the Cintiq and boy is this a much bigger pleasure and I never really use the draw/scan/trace tehnique anymore.

I will never ever go back to a device where I must draw somewhere and look at what I'm drawing somewhere else. It's old and shouldn't be done anymore. ]]>May 20th 2010 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/
i prefer a normal graphics tablet to a cintique, because drawing for long periods of time on a screen makes my hand get hot and sweaty.

but even more important than that, i like being able to see the whole image. no hand and pencil blocking parts of the image. i like that i can see through the brush tip (as represented on screen by a transparent circle) at exactly what i'm doing.

i find this msi device to be very interesting, so long as they price it right, and the sensitivity of the drawing surface is up to mark... so to speak :P]]>May 20th 2010 11:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/
22" cintiq ? Noob... I draw with a broom on a 3meter canvas in front of my projector...

;-)]]>May 20th 2010 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/
A cintiq is great. It is also hella-expensive and not very portable.

This product seems to address those two weaknesses of the cintiq.]]>May 20th 2010 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/i would choose it over a cintique, because it's replacing a SKETCHBOOK. it's not for finished artworks, it's for sketches. so portability is important.

i would choose it over the ipad, especially if it's pressure sensitive, because when not drawing with it, it TURNS INTO A REAL COMPUTER.]]>May 20th 2010 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/
Cause most of us need more than fingerpaint.]]>May 21st 2010 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/Pick one
-Draw a keyboard on the touch pad, so it can be used easily as a touch keyboard
-use a touch screen]]>May 20th 2010 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/msi-shows-off-convertible-sketchbook-laptop-concept/May 20th 2010 5:44PM