I use a MacBook Pro Wacom Intuos Pro Medium Size and here ' s why . I started drawing on these tablets , they are affordable and offer a great range of pressure sensitivity . Once you get used to the disconnect of drawing and looking up at your computer , it ' s a breeze . Again , these tablets are affordable compared to the Cintiq touch screens . I attempted to make the jump to the allure and ease of drawing on a screen rather than looking at a monitor . Any good ones are incredibly expensive . The alternatives including the Surface Book , the Surface Pro , the Lenovo TouchPad etc . all have really inferior specs but are inevitably affordable , but here ' s the problem . When you run these full suite programs on these less powerful devices , you get an insane amount of lag between each brush stroke . Absolute deal breaker if you like to draw quickly because that ' s what a tablet is for right ? These devices also choke up CPU quick , leaving you unable to do anything else or switch between programs fast and efficiently , losing you money as a designer . I bought one to try out and immediately returned it after attempting to do my current workload on it . It would be nice to have these as a secondary option , but not a primary . Also , with the Surface Book , I believe you have to have both ends of the device connected to utilize the graphics card which is a pretty weird drawing setup both laying flat vertically , could be mistaken . These tablets also offer lesser degree of pressure sensitivity compared to Wacom products . The Surface Pro 3 being the least . Clean vector work with varying stroke weights becomes tedious and not worth it . Tablets can range between 5122048 levels of sensitivity if I ' m not mistaken , so it may be useful to decide if that ' s important to you . With the MacBook or even PC laptop , you ' ll have a computer specced to do your design work without getting bogged down . I myself often work from about 1015 different programs on a daily basis , so when I am slowed down , I ' m losing money . Side note I ' ve noticed over the course of several computers that laptops without designated graphics cards get bogged down when you have a lot of brush strokes Illustrator . I noticed huge performance leaps with a the graphics option . 13 MacBooks don ' t have one but they manage to a certain extent . I prefer MacBooks simply because of portability , specs , OS and personal preference . The new Razer laptops seem similar . TLDR I suggest going with a laptop Wacom tablet . It offers the best specs all around for what you end up paying . When you ' re not drawing , you can easily code , develop or design with a mouse keyboard fast , and efficiently .