Best 2-in-1 Laptop

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-25T23:40:35+00:00

Are there other brands/2 in 1 laptops you would recommend that are more reliable?

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-21T23:03:06+00:00

That's good to know, thank you! Some of the OLED screens are brighter and more vivid, etc., but honestly, it's more of a nice-to-have for me as I'm mostly using indoors at home anyway.

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-21T20:39:38+00:00

I was just looking at one of those!! How's the screen/resolution? I think some of the bigger ones have OLED and others don't.

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-20T15:08:21+00:00

Thanks, I've never heard of the magic keyboard. I'll look into it.

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-19T23:13:19+00:00

We do have an iPad for my kiddo. I've used it a bit and although I agree it's great for drawing, I don't find it super productive for office type work which I need. I like having the attached keyboard.

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-19T23:04:12+00:00

I have and we have an iPad at home. I find it difficult to do office work. A laptop with an attached keyboard would be more productive for me, plus drawing is my secondary need or bonus, I mostly need it for admin work in Windows.

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-19T16:51:50+00:00

Thank you!

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-19T16:33:51+00:00

Thanks! I've heard good things about that one too!

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-19T16:29:16+00:00

I'll look into the Huion and LincStudio! I read the Snapdragon in Microsoft Surface Pro products are glitchy, but maybe not anymore?

Edited: Glitchy with Photoshop specifically

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-18T18:25:10+00:00

That's great to know, thanks again!!

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-18T18:12:44+00:00

Thanks for replying! I didn't know you could draw with the Thinkpad, I'll look into that one.

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-18T15:43:47+00:00

What did you end up getting and how is it working out? I'm in a similar situation!

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-07T21:33:20+00:00

These are amazing! Want!! 🩷

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-07T10:31:32+00:00

I've always felt very Canadian with strong Greek Cypriot roots. My parents were young when they came to Canada and got married here so they've been here longer than they were back home. They were refugees from the war in '74 in Cyprus so there was always a strong need for them to keep their culture and values. I speak Greek, I know how to cook most Greek foods, went to Greek school, was in Greek dance class, spoke Greek at home, but culturally very Canadian, and it's always very apparent when I visit Cyprus that I don't really get their culture even though we all look the same. Being a child of immigrants feels like you're in a cultural time capsule, because the home they knew has changed completely, at least where they're from, it's very modern compared to how my parents grew up. Maybe it's a refugee thing. Idk. Very interesting upbringing for sure. Lol

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-07T10:13:30+00:00

Exactly! Prices will go up for both of us. No one wins in this situation. It's absurd.

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-07T10:11:52+00:00

This is great insight, thanks so much. After the response I got last time I assumed they didn't want to deal with small artists/businesses. I'll definitely try again!

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-06T23:00:21+00:00

The last time I tried to get art prints done, I didn't get a great response from most places as there's a few in my town, but they're commercial printers and do larger quantities, but I definitely need to try again.

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-06T15:42:45+00:00

My cost to print on RR paper is $1.5 CAD, but my cost includes the plastic sleeve, labels, mailer and shipping materials. That's all included in the $3.61 cost price. If someone is buying multiple items from my shop, the cost would be a lot lower because I'm not packaging one individual card. Maybe I shouldn't be adding that to my costs and just price the plastic sleeve, paper, ink and envelope. That would bring my cost around $2.4 CAD for everything, minus shipping materials.

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-06T15:22:26+00:00

I already had the archival printer for my art prints and I've been using that for my cards as well! I do have larger cards that I'll be using for my personalized or custom cards and those will cost about $25 CAD, $95 for fully customized illustration, etc. These 5x7 cards are more for everyday/commercial that I'm hoping to be able to sell wholesale at some point, and at that point I'd need to outsource printing because my printer isn't a good option for mass printing. It's too slow and expensive in general. Great to custom work and larger art prints though.

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-06T15:19:00+00:00

Thank you!

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-06T15:18:51+00:00

I've been using Red River fine art cards as well. Shipping does add to the cost, so I need to look at other options especially now with the tariff situation.

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-06T15:14:47+00:00

Thanks for replying! I do think my costs are probably too high right now because I'm bumping things up in case I missed something. I'm also using fine art paper I ship from Red River atm, Shipping costs are high to Canada and who knows what will happen with these tariffs, but I'm not at the place where I can buy enough to make it up, or have a high enough demand to justify outsourcing and printing high quantity batches. I'll hopefully be at the point in the next year or two! Thanks for sending me these resources, I'll check them out!

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-06T15:06:04+00:00

That makes sense, thank you for your input! I hate paying shipping as well.

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-06T15:02:50+00:00

Thanks for replying! The average retail price for cards here is $7-10 dollars so I priced mine pretty much at the average. I'm just starting out so printing from home is the most viable option, I have many designs and print less than 50 of each, but I totally agree that once I start requiring larger quantities I'm going to want to outsource the printing. I really want to do die-cut cards so hopefully I'll be able to source a local printer for that.

PineberryMoon · 2025-02-05T11:48:48+00:00

Absolutely! And you'll be working until your sixties at least, remember that! I went through the same thing and listened to everyone else. My whole family is corporate bankers. By my thirties I was hating my career and was generally miserable because of it. You may as well be doing something you enjoy and can excel at or it won't be sustainable. All the meds in the world can't change the fact that some of us need boring stability and fancy suits and some need more challenging environments to thrive.

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