- cross-posted to:
- technews@radiation.party
- cross-posted to:
- technews@radiation.party
The new USB-C Apple Pencil supports hover with the iPad Pro and can attach magnetically — but at $79, it’s cheaper than the $129 second-gen Pencil.
The cheaper price means that the Pencil doesn’t come with some of the more advanced features as the first- and second-generation accessories. The device doesn’t support pressure sensitivity, wireless pairing and charging, or the double-tap feature that lets you switch between tools. However, it still supports hover with M2 models of the iPad Pro.
The lower price is nice, but zero pressure sensitivity is a big question mark IMO. You’d expect something at this price to have at least a few levels of sensitivity.
You must log in or # to comment.
The device doesn’t support pressure sensitivity
So the targeted audience is… no one? The regular pens are very much aimed at artists.
Note takers, I guess…
A lot of people use these pencils for taking notes.
This is actually ewaste. The normal pencils have been on sale fairly often for 99 bucks and the price difference isn’t really enough so all they’re doing is making trash in an attempt to lure people into paying the small amount more for the better version.
deleted by creator
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/07/apple-geep-iphone-recycle-shred/ and they’ll sue you if you try to stop them from making more E-waste! https://youtu.be/rZjbNWgsDt8
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/rZjbNWgsDt8
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Most likely they will bundle it „for free“ with the education sale, and give you the more expensive one if you pay extra.
There have been $30 third party pencils that work perfectly fine, I guess they will be almost the same as this one.
It’s too cheap and has no apple logo. The social suicide of an apple user.
The hover feature works because it’s done on the iPad’s digitizer side, so afaik, it’s not the Pencil’s feature.
I’ve been considering getting a wacom one to use on my Linux laptop.
while that’s totally valid of course that kind of has nothing to do with iPads and their stylus’ does it? Lol
But Wacom makes some great stuff. I have a buddy who uses a Wacom tablet for digital art. He uses windows. Any Linux quirks or does Wacom “just work” with Linux installs?
Pretty sure it just works. GNOME actually has a specific page in the settings for Wacom tablets.
I’m pretty sure wacom drivers are just in the linux kernel, and also my XP pen tablet worked out of the box also. I haven’t noticed any weird problems.
I was just thinking out loud I guess. It kind of contributes to the conversation because I know wacom tablets have pens included and not sold separately. Also, I don’t recall them being so expensive like apple pens if you buy them separately.
