![]() ![]() Creative professionals who are already Wacom users will probably appreciate the inclusion. I’m not much of an artist but I did have a good experience sketching with Surface Pro’s pen. ![]() Tracking and responsiveness were both excellent in using the pen. Microsoft does a good job of palm rejection with the pen in use, although I did occasionally have to erase an errant line or two caused by the edge of my hand in a drawing app. ![]() The tablet is a bit awkward to hold with the pen in place, and there’s also the problem of where do you store the pen if you’re using the tablet while plugged into the wall, but I suppose it’s better than nothing. The magnetic dock doesn’t charge/power the pen in any way, it just holds it in place. The Surface Pro pen doesn’t store anywhere inside the device, but it can be docked to the magnetic power connector as long as you’re not charging the tablet. Regardless, I didn't notice any impact on touch response when using Surface Pro without the digital pen. It's not clear to me whether or not Microsoft is using Wacom's RRFC to enable capacitive touch in addition to digital pen support. The pen won’t work on Surface RT as the requisite Wacom EMR grid and logic don’t exist on that tablet. Surface Pro will recognize the pen starting from about an inch above the display. A weak EM field is generated by Surface Pro which enduces a current in the digital pen that then powers its resonance circuit, which in turn impacts the EM field and is used to determine the position and angle of the pen itself. The pen itself is passive, all of the power consuming circuitry is contained within the display stack itself. ![]() Based on Wacom’s technology (presumably Electro-Magnetic Resonance), the SurfacePen supports 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity. While you don’t get a keyboard with Surface Pro, Microsoft does bundle a digital pen with the device. ![]()
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