Are computer tablets a smart purchase or would it be wiser to

obviously looking for something for art and design

I have yet to see a tablet that's suitable for digital art. Maybe the really expensive ones?

>>61036038
the latest surface pro and the surface pro competitors are all pretty competent and support the wacom active pens
there's that beastly (and super expensive) vaio canvas too

>>61036208
Yeah it seems like the surfaces are the way to go for that unless you want to pay for really pricey professional shit

>>61036004
Look at the pen tech and try it out if have a chance before you buy.
Back then the Surface pro 3 and the pen is shit but people still use them as a drawing tablet because it's convenient, not too bulky like the Wacom Cintiq Companion and still do some other things like a laptop.
Now active like Wacom AES/Microsoft N-trig/Apple pencil have gotten much better and if you don't like them, 2-in-1 using EMR (like Wacom tablet) also exist.
This is a detail list of these kind of devices, maybe it would be useful for you:
https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=A3E71B4BBE25C114!107&app=Excel&authkey=!AAO1lowxloMJjhM

>>61036038
Surface pro 5 is gud

New stylus is 11ms latency

>>61036004
They're pretty good if you spend $1500-2000 on a tablet. Otherwise, tablets costing less than that are usually shit for pen work.