Dell Solutions Tour 2014.
Tags: stylus t. Frog, London, Fresh Paint, Dell Solutions, Olympia, Paint
Date: 16 October 2014 07:33:57
Latest on the list of 'Blimey it's busy this year' screen drawing sessions is the Dell Solutions tour 2014.
It's a three day/three city event which I get the chance to join in with the London leg. This year it was in Olympia - a venue I've not been in since the old ECTS days - and as always it's delightful to be able to draw on new screens, chat to people I've met at other events and big up the students and the College course. (Last year it was at Stamford Bridge which I thoroughly enjoyed for the Autostitch wonderfulness).
I only had three hours to join them this year as I was due to be drawing burgers and having meetings for the rest of the day (more to say, some very cool stuff to come) and that led to these pictures:
Drawn on a Dell 18, Venue 8 and 11 mostly using Paint app (although I did get one stand to install the Fresh Paint app for me to have a test out on their screen...) Paint is OK, not my favourite app to demo and work with as the icons aren't exactly set up for touch screen... but it's more capable than some might remember and not painful to use... Fresh Paint is one of my favourite apps so it's always a shame to see demo machines not have it as an automatic option.
Apologies for the photos. The lighting of the room played havoc with my camera... Regardless: Stylus T. Frog had a good run out, which is always nice. Thanks for the invite Dell :)
One unexpected bonus of the day was the picking up of two new promo styli. One from Qualcomm - a wrist slap band stylus that works miles better than one I picked up from them last year... But the star of the show was a luxury Intel pen/stylus that's lovely to write and draw with. Hurrah. Hence the picture which opens this blog. I drew it on my trusty new Hudl 2 in the q for lunch (must be a limerick in there somewhere) because no-one would lend me a Dell tablet to draw on while I was waiting.... But I did use the styli that I'd picked up to draw each of the styli in the picture, so that sort of counts as being helpful, right?
On the machine side I do like the Dell tablets and I look forward to the update of the Venue tablets with the new pen/drivers and refreshed innards in November. All good stuff, and I REALLY like their LED projector. That's an utter mini-star :)
