Top 3 Tablets for Drawing and Gaming in 2025!

In this video, I'm going to show you guys three different tablets that you can get right now for Thanksgiving 2025 at a great discount. And these will be good for work, school, play. And they come at three different prices, starting at the lowest, around $300, up to $1,000. I myself do a lot of creative work, so drawing or even animation is a must for me. So all of these tablets can do that. So first, let's start with the iPad. I have appears as an 11 inch A16 chip version, the latest 2025 model. And this is an overall great iPad or tablet. I use this regularly to draw, sketch and procreate. Obviously any other app that you like to use, you can do that too. I find that the pencil, that unfortunately this pencil you do have to buy extra. It's not that expensive. This is the USB-C version. You can even save yourself money and buy the previous, the original version of the Apple pencil, which is also a really great pencil. And it will work with this. And it's just, you know, it's a pleasure using the Apple pencils. The pencil will obviously allow you to take notes, but I personally like the Apple pencil because it's really good. Just the way the tip feels, even on this glass screen. Now, if you're going to be doing a lot of drawing on this or any other tablet for no matter, I would suggest that you buy yourself a screen protector. Not so much to protect the screen, but to give the glass surface basically a bit of a texture. And that just makes it feel a little bit more natural, you know, kind of like drawing on paper. But the one drawback obviously with those textured screen protectors is that they dull down the screen, the quality of the screen and the colors and the contrast. So, you know, for drawing, that's okay. But when you're going to be consuming content or even if you're using this for photo retouching, things like that, and you want to really see those accurate colors that this liquid retina display has, then definitely you want to be able to remove that. So that's why I say get the magnetic screen protector because you can just remove it when you don't need it. And I'm actually going to share the links for the ones that I prefer to use down in the description of this video. Or as always, head on over to my website at TomAntosFilms.com where you're going to find all the links, all the best deals, different websites, and I'm also going to be updating it over there as the prices change. Now, like I mentioned, the display on this is beautiful. It is an iPad. It's a liquid retina display. Because of that, you're going to get what you usually expect to get from the latest Apple products. Really great color reproduction, you know, good refresh rates, just, you know, the resolution and everything you get on this. It's really amazing. So for playing games or for just consuming content, you're really going to get a beautiful display. Some other things worth mentioning, even though this doesn't have the latest, you know, higher specs, is that it has really good 12 megapixel cameras on both the front and the back. The battery life, basically all day battery, like it is the case with all these other tablets that I have today. The speakers has quad speaker set up on both sides. You have two speakers and that really creates a nice loud and sort of enveloping sound, again, coming from such a little and thin device. And just overall, again, it's an Apple product. It's well designed. It works smoothly now because I was looking for the best deals. This is the base model, which is 128 gigs. So if you need more space, I would definitely say get yourself, you know, some cloud storage. It comes with the touch ID. It comes with pretty much, again, most of the things you're going to need for your typical sort of a work school and play kind of tasks. And now obviously, if you're going to be trying to use this for video editing, I mean, you can do it, but you're going to very quickly run into limits with this. And definitely you want to then also connect the keyboards and wireless keyboard, mouse, all that stuff. But I would just say that's not really what this is suited for. Not to mention the screen is not that big. So kind of editing might feel a little bit constrained, but it is possible for like your basic video editing. But if you're getting this for your sort of typical work, school and play tasks, then again, I can say that this is going to handle most of that stuff. Definitely works great for me when it comes to drawing or playing the really the latest games. It handles all that. No problem. Perhaps the best feature about this is the price. Not even the tablet itself, but like I said, the accessories, whether you get the original Apple pencil or if you get, for example, like the case, I got less than ten dollars. And you can get this tablet right now, brand new for 279. You know, when it comes to the price, yeah, you can't expect this to have the top of the line features, but it's an overall really good tablet will handle most of the things they throw out at. And if in its price range, you really will not find anything that even comes close to the kind of quality and features that this tablet offers. And next up, I have the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Plus. It's got a slightly bigger screen. This is twelve point four inches. Now it's an Android. So if you like that, then again, you're probably going to just look at this. If not, if you prefer the Apple ecosystem, then you probably want to look at the other two tablets. But as an Android, again, it's got most of the same apps except one doesn't have procreate dreams, which I personally love to use. But it has great just, you know, really, really good drawing apps. So you definitely can do that. It comes with the S Pen and this is, again, another great pen and it again comes included. Well, it comes included with the tablet. Depends with version you get because there's some even further discounted models. But just be careful. And again, all the info I'll provide on my website where the pen is not included. It's an overall really great pen and a really amazing tablet to be honest. So again, for the price that you're paying and this is a refurbished actually model. And so because of that, I got a even bigger discount. Yeah, you're getting amazing features. Like I said, nice, an AMOLED display, really crisp resolution, amazing color reproduction, amazing refresh rate. The sound in this is also pretty good. It's got a quiet speaker setup. I mean, overall, the whole thing is super thin. Now you can get for this the original Samsung keyboard. It's got already the connections for it. Or you can get any other Bluetooth keyboards if you want that. I actually got one for this for it's like under $20. But yeah, like again, a great budget tablet. Now it's still not as cheap as this one. This right now I got for just over $500. This originally retailed almost twice the price. I mean, again, you're getting maybe not the latest tech, but you're really getting top of the line tech. Now this tablet did come out two years ago. So that's something to consider. It doesn't mean that it's still getting supported by Samsung. Now you're going to be good for the next at least two years. You're going to get the support for this tablet. What happens after that? I guess we'll see. Another thing I like about this tablet is that it actually well comes with 256 gigabytes of storage, but it has a little expendable here slot. So you can actually put in a micro SD card and further expand this up to 1 terabyte for a very low cost. That's one thing that's sort of great about the Samsung tablets comparing it to the Apple tablets, which fortunately in these you cannot upgrade the storage. So again, so you can get the basic model that I have up here, but you don't have to sort of suffer with the minimum storage that they give you. Now the processor that's in this, even though again, it's not the latest, but it's still one of the top top of the line processors is the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. And this processor will handle pretty much anything that you throw on it. Like I've used this for video editing. No issues. I've played the latest games again. No issues and definitely if you're doing creative work, drawing and that kind of stuff, even photo retouching and really high resolution pictures. No issues at all. No lag. No slowdowns and all of this comes like I said in this nice thin package, which actually contains a battery and again, was going to last you the whole day for your sort of typical use. So again, this is the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Plus an amazing tablet and if you like Android, definitely this is one of the deals that you want to be watching out for for Thanksgiving season. And yeah, just an overall great tablet. I have nothing really bad to say about it. And last but definitely not least is the Apple iPad Pro. This is the 13 inch edition and this one comes with the M4 chip processor. Amazing tablet. And now again, the price definitely not as affordable as the other ones we got up here. This one comes in around $1,000. But again, you know, we get it together with the Apple Pencil Pro. I think there's really when it comes to creativity or even like high-end, you know, creative work like for example, 3D graphics like you want to be using the pen to do, you know, hand-drawn animation and you know, procreate dreams or maybe doing 3D modeling and ZBrush to that kind of stuff. Again, there's probably no other tablet device that really that's going to beat it. Maybe the latest version might. So this is the previous version, the M4. But again, you throw video editing at this. It works great. And anything else really that's graphic intensive like the latest games plays it beautifully, nice and smooth. It just simply works. It's an amazing display. I would say it's one of the best displays of all, you know, mobile devices that I've ever used. Beautiful color reproduction, the contrast, the blacks are nice and, you know, dark. You're going to get really good. Just, you know, overall resolution, sharpness, everything just looks amazing and the refresh rates on this are really good too. So again, it's going to handle any of the gaming stuff out there that you're going to put in it, but really the high-end creative kind of work that you might want to be doing with this. This is the base model comes with 256 gigabytes of storage. It has the, you know, the lidar built into it and has the face recognition. So that's really good too. And actually there because it's an M4, it means it does have the latest Apple Intelligence assist tool. So if you care about AI, which for me personally, I don't use AI in a lot of this work, especially when I work in tablets. But if you want to have that, then again, this tablet will have it. But you know, you're paying a little bit more. But still right now for Thanksgiving 2025 season, so basically Black Friday or Cyber Monday deals, you can get all these tablets at some really nice discounted deals. So if you guys are interested and want to find out about the latest deals, where to find them, and also if you want to see them updated as for example, as Cyber Monday, for example, comes around and prices change. The best way to stay up to date with all of that is hand on over to my website at TomAntosFilms.com, or check out the links in the description. But again, my website is just gets updated in near real time as basically as the prices are going to be changing. So definitely if you guys are looking for a deal on a tablet right now is probably the best time of the year to go looking for it. And if you're interested in any of these, but especially the iPad Pro, then you're really going to, I think, like the video that I did, where I reviewed the iPad Pro 13 inch M5 edition. So you can kind of see how that latest version compares to this one. So definitely give that video a try. My name is Tom Antos. I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye.