N Trig Or Wacom. The pen is Ntrig the digitizer tech now owned by Microsoft Two pen buttons sit flush in the barrel near the nib The included soft grip collar provides a comfy cushioned way to hold the pen like memory foam for the fingers Or you can go austere and take it off Either way the buttons are accessible There is no eraser end.
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In fact Microsoft ended up buying Ntrig outright in early 2015 For its part Wacom had been working on its own capacitive touch and pen combo to rival DuoSense 2 in the form of the Wacom Active Electro Static (or Wacom Active ES) platform But Wacom AES was still too far from being production ready for the Surface Pro 3.
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NTrig devices have 256 Levels of pressure while Wacom devices can range from 512 all the way up to 2048 As far as numbers go its is clear to see that in this regard Wacom devices are superior However it is important for us to understand what it means to have more levels of pressure.
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Ntrig versus Wacom technology For those who don’t follow the ins and outs of modern smart pens for tablets Wacom is considered to be the industry standard Ntrig meanwhile is the new kid Author Daniel Rubino.
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The Ntrig pen does handwriting very well and has no edge jitter edge drift or parallax so in that sense it’s an improvement but perhaps these are more important in writing than drawing I still find the Wacom pen more sensitive to my hand and this isn’t due to pressure sensitivity but just to the force it takes to make a mark and the fact that you can hold the Wacom pen at any angle.
