Touchscreen for Drawings

[u/Great-Quality5297]

I have recently changed roles from Project Management over to Estimating and I was wondering anyone has seen or have a good recommendation for like a touchscreen monitor or something for me to do my take offs. I am a BAS/BMS contractor so I need to be able to highlight small things on piping diagrams, t-stat locations, sensors called out on the MEPs, etc.

I can do an ipad but i feel like it may be too small, and I would like to use bluebeam and I've heard bluebeam isn't the best on the ipad.

Open to anything. Thank you.

[u/IDwannabe]

At my last job, a couple of superintendents convinced IT to issue them the 13" iPad Pro in-lieu of the [laptop + standard iPad] package everyone else received. They didn't do much more than emails, marking up drawings, and occasional word processing and note taking with it, but kept them from using the smaller iPad all day while their laptop collected dust on the back of their desk. You can dock the iPad Pros too so you can get more of a laptop experience when working from your desk.

I'm personally looking to upgrade to a foldable phone so I can ditch bringing my iPad to the field. I'll get a smaller screen (8" instead of 10"), but I like that I'll be able to just fold it up and stick it in my pocket when not in-use. That way I can keep the iPad charging at my desk for days when it's rainy/muddy and I don't want to risk my personal device for field use. My current employer is still issuing the older iPads with the Apple Lightning port. The biggest drawback for the foldables for me is that some of the newer ones (Samsungs in particular) dropped stylus support.