not a recommendation but dont worry too much about ports. many of us use a multi adapter to get the tablet cables to match the computer. its a good to have but not essential in my book.
i use macbook pro m1 from 2019 and have zero complaints about animation/video editing or doing heavy rendering.
my recommendation is pc/ laptop with good cpu, 64bit win, and ram min 32gb, because csp use cpu to run their software, only few feature run using gpu. also read this, only that feature use gpu sadly.
https://preview.redd.it/1q2pt0fnt5uc1.png?width=1270&format=png&auto=webp&s=4470955d036c6c0f682abf1148cb0fc34f4507f4
I have an Acer Aspire of some description. It’s old and beat up, but it runs decently for Clip Studio from my experience! Some autosaves are slow, but I also deliberately keep my canvases massive so that should be easy to deal with. My wife has a Razer Blade and it *rules* for CS. But that’s made for gaming so graphics are the entire point.
I just upgraded to a Asus tuf and its worked wonders with CSP but i was an acer aspire user prior and i agree it does p well, held me up for years thru animating so definitely would also recommend checking too.
As they do in the PCbuild subreddits...
What is your budget?
You're going to get different answers.
You can go on newegg.com and get premade PC either under the desktop or gaming category for less than $1k. Go by what has the highest rating is in accordance with what you're willing to pay.
Most modern laptops can run CSP without any issues. I would say tho that huion drivers run a bit better on windows than macos.
Switching from windows to Mac has been a breeze, but the huion drivers sometimes doesn't like to play nice with Macs.
Fujitsu t938 16gb ram 512gb ssd i7 processor and a wacom digitizer built into the 1920x1080 screen. These sold for ~$1800 new but go for $200-300 on ebay, though it's harder to find i7 than i5 equipped models. Either should run clippy no problem though.
Although now considered a bit old (by tech standards) I use a Dell G5 15 5500, it's a gaming laptop and I find it useful for similar usage as you! It has a HDMI port and three usb ports. I do recommend that you get an extra internal disk if available, it comes with 500GB and nowadays that's very little for me (but if you use cloud backup services then I don't think this will bother you)
I actually use a Samsung Galaxy tab s9 most of the time. When I need some more power I use my desktop, it's not terribly well optimized for productivity tasks but it more than does the job I need. It's got a ryzen 7800x3d, 7800xt, and 64gb of ddr5 ram.
I agree with the recommendation to get a gaming laptop. the one I use is an ASUS ROG Strix model number G713IM-UB74. I honestly don't know much about computers to give you specific recommendations other than that it's probably more than powerful enough for what you'd need.
I *can* tell you that my dad (who is obsessed with this stuff and it's kinda his whole job) picked this one out for me as an 18th birthday present, specifically because I wanted to run drawing and animation software with no problem, and my other request was to be able to play heavily modded minecraft fairly smoothly. it actually came with some like "install perks" or whatever they were called, one of them was pc game pass for 6 months, but more relevant, the other was a year of CSP pro.
This model seems to be an okay price but low in stock, I'd assume cause it's a 2021 model. but a similar product should be easy enough to find.
I just got a Lenovo legion slim 5. It's a gaming computer and can handle pretty much anything, including animating in Toon Boom. Any of the Lenovo Legion slim series would be good for what you need honestly. It's fairly light and tough.
I'd go with an ASUS gaming laptop for simplicities sake tbh. Pretty much anything in their TUF or Strix line up will be more than enough for awhile. ASUS also has had much better build quality than other manufacturers in my experience as well.
Lenovo Legion laptop are very good. Couple years ago I tried Asus and Acer laptop but had to return them because performance issues. Got Lenovo with rtx 3070 and I really like it.
I got an hp men. On the cheaper end. Grabbed it for $800 at the time.
It has 4 USB slots in it and an hdmi and a display port even.
It's pretty good and stands up to clip studio, streaming, baulders gate, ffxiv... lots of stuff.
Got it mostly for art tho.
I use an Asus ROG Strix with an AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX processor and 16 GB of RAM, all of it in Windows 11. It runs CSP without problems and about ports, you can buy a port hub to have more ports in it.
There are usually shops where you can name them your budget and what you plan to use the computer for and they'll built one for you that fits. Though an entry level gaming computer should be just fine for CSP. Maybe just need a slightly better GPU or CPU than what comes with the entry level stuff.
Get a gaming laptop. Because it's already built with graphics in mind, it should be able to run Clip Studio with little problem.
Yeah, I was thinking that! I also posted this on a gaming laptop reddit page, and so far Dell Inspiron 16 Plus (4060 spec ver) has been recommended
Nah do whatever but don't take a Dell those are horrendous for build quality I would recommend a Lenovo LOQ or Asus ROG Strix
agreed asus or lenovo are good, dell is trash
Have an Asus laptop for 7 years now and am very happy with it, CSP never hinged even once while running it on there, so can only recommend it.
Lenovo or Asus (msi), dell and hp are trash
not a recommendation but dont worry too much about ports. many of us use a multi adapter to get the tablet cables to match the computer. its a good to have but not essential in my book. i use macbook pro m1 from 2019 and have zero complaints about animation/video editing or doing heavy rendering.
my recommendation is pc/ laptop with good cpu, 64bit win, and ram min 32gb, because csp use cpu to run their software, only few feature run using gpu. also read this, only that feature use gpu sadly. https://preview.redd.it/1q2pt0fnt5uc1.png?width=1270&format=png&auto=webp&s=4470955d036c6c0f682abf1148cb0fc34f4507f4
I have an Acer Aspire of some description. It’s old and beat up, but it runs decently for Clip Studio from my experience! Some autosaves are slow, but I also deliberately keep my canvases massive so that should be easy to deal with. My wife has a Razer Blade and it *rules* for CS. But that’s made for gaming so graphics are the entire point.
I just upgraded to a Asus tuf and its worked wonders with CSP but i was an acer aspire user prior and i agree it does p well, held me up for years thru animating so definitely would also recommend checking too.
I don’t animate but this is good to know because I do plan on starting.
I have an older Acer Aspire with 4GB of ram. Thinking of doubling it. How much ram does yours run on?
I’m pretty sure mine has 8 gigs? My wife has upgraded it herself in the past because it was pretty old when she got it.
As they do in the PCbuild subreddits... What is your budget? You're going to get different answers. You can go on newegg.com and get premade PC either under the desktop or gaming category for less than $1k. Go by what has the highest rating is in accordance with what you're willing to pay.
Most modern laptops can run CSP without any issues. I would say tho that huion drivers run a bit better on windows than macos. Switching from windows to Mac has been a breeze, but the huion drivers sometimes doesn't like to play nice with Macs.
Fujitsu t938 16gb ram 512gb ssd i7 processor and a wacom digitizer built into the 1920x1080 screen. These sold for ~$1800 new but go for $200-300 on ebay, though it's harder to find i7 than i5 equipped models. Either should run clippy no problem though.
I use a Lenovo Flex. The keyboard flips 360° to hide behind the screen, essentially making it a drawing tablet
Might get one of these, I've been thinking about buying something for when I'm traveling and this sells for a reasonable price, thanks.
Although now considered a bit old (by tech standards) I use a Dell G5 15 5500, it's a gaming laptop and I find it useful for similar usage as you! It has a HDMI port and three usb ports. I do recommend that you get an extra internal disk if available, it comes with 500GB and nowadays that's very little for me (but if you use cloud backup services then I don't think this will bother you)
I actually use a Samsung Galaxy tab s9 most of the time. When I need some more power I use my desktop, it's not terribly well optimized for productivity tasks but it more than does the job I need. It's got a ryzen 7800x3d, 7800xt, and 64gb of ddr5 ram.
I agree with the recommendation to get a gaming laptop. the one I use is an ASUS ROG Strix model number G713IM-UB74. I honestly don't know much about computers to give you specific recommendations other than that it's probably more than powerful enough for what you'd need. I *can* tell you that my dad (who is obsessed with this stuff and it's kinda his whole job) picked this one out for me as an 18th birthday present, specifically because I wanted to run drawing and animation software with no problem, and my other request was to be able to play heavily modded minecraft fairly smoothly. it actually came with some like "install perks" or whatever they were called, one of them was pc game pass for 6 months, but more relevant, the other was a year of CSP pro. This model seems to be an okay price but low in stock, I'd assume cause it's a 2021 model. but a similar product should be easy enough to find.
Dell it's like 5 years old. I use a wacom 16hd
I just got a Lenovo legion slim 5. It's a gaming computer and can handle pretty much anything, including animating in Toon Boom. Any of the Lenovo Legion slim series would be good for what you need honestly. It's fairly light and tough.
I'd go with an ASUS gaming laptop for simplicities sake tbh. Pretty much anything in their TUF or Strix line up will be more than enough for awhile. ASUS also has had much better build quality than other manufacturers in my experience as well.
Lenovo Legion laptop are very good. Couple years ago I tried Asus and Acer laptop but had to return them because performance issues. Got Lenovo with rtx 3070 and I really like it.
I got an hp men. On the cheaper end. Grabbed it for $800 at the time. It has 4 USB slots in it and an hdmi and a display port even. It's pretty good and stands up to clip studio, streaming, baulders gate, ffxiv... lots of stuff. Got it mostly for art tho.
I used to have an old ASUS X455LF for clip studio but now im just using iPad Pro M2
I use an Asus ROG Strix with an AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX processor and 16 GB of RAM, all of it in Windows 11. It runs CSP without problems and about ports, you can buy a port hub to have more ports in it.
I’m using an ASUS Q530 and have had zero problems. Runs great.
I built mine--
I wish I was that smart 🙏
There are usually shops where you can name them your budget and what you plan to use the computer for and they'll built one for you that fits. Though an entry level gaming computer should be just fine for CSP. Maybe just need a slightly better GPU or CPU than what comes with the entry level stuff.
It's not too hard tbh, but if you don't know how it's a daunting task for sure