Quote from: 4sofnature on June 29, 2020, 03:38:31
Quote from: S.Yu on June 29, 2020, 01:41:13
Quote from: 4sofnature on June 27, 2020, 21:40:37
I don't think SB3 deserves a 87% rating like its predecessor, even in the convertible category. Other than the unique detachable form factor, SB3 falls behind its competitors in terms of battery life, CPU performance, screen, portability, everyday useability, pen input, I/O, price performance, etc.
Surprisingly the review didn't even include Dell XPS 13 2 in 1 7390, which only gets a 86% rating but which is, in my opinion, a overall better convertible for most people.
What's wrong with the pen input? If it's like the SP series then I can attest that the experience is far superior to XPS 13 2N1's. XPS 13 has both higher jitter and higher latency, with its bundled stylus or with the latest Wacom Bamboo, which provides essentially the same inking except with a slightly better pressure curve, but then it's one button short and the actuation pressure of the buttons is absurdly light. The Surface Pen is superior to those in every metric, only the XPS 13 2N1 doesn't support Surface Pen(detects, connects, but doesn't ink, SP4 pen and the latest both tested) even though Dell claims SPP support.
Although Surface Pen is better than than Dell's Active Pen, former still falls Apple Pencil, Wacom AES, as well as others from ThinkPad and Samsung. The most notable downside of Surface Pen are its inability to draw straight diagonal lines. Others can be attributed to poor Windows software optimization for touch and pen input. This is also common on other Windows convertibles but at least they make up for that by being a better laptop than the Surface Book 3.
Don't know what you're talking about. Dell Active Pen uses Wacom AES, more importantly, so does Bamboo which performs nearly identically. Other Wacom pens only go with their own boards so I don't know about those.
The Pencil has better inking, but not fundamentally better than SP4's Pen. The tilt feature notably lags behind the inking and is far less accurate, so it's more of a gimmick, and the hard plastic tip has the worst writing experience of any device. Also, it lacks buttons(touch is not a good way to handle lassos which I map to Surface Pen's side button), and I personally far prefer Surface Pen's eraser to any button solution because of the far lower rate of misactivations. Oh, and iOS Onenote is sorely lacking in features compared to Onenote 2016, so choosing the Pencil means being stuck with inferior software.
Surface Pen has relatively bad diagonal jitter, but as I said, Dell's is worse but you were trying to push the XPS 13 2N1 as an inking device citing Microsoft "falling behind" which is what caught my attention. Microsoft is behind the Dell in many metrics, especially price-performance, but inking shouldn't be one of them.