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Easily Add Pen Support To Your Non-Touch Chromebook
Dec 19, 2024
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on the desk in front of me are two items
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one you probably know a lot about the
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Samsung Galaxy Chromebook plus and one
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you probably don't know much about the
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Wacom inos Graphics tablet uh it works
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for Windows Mac Chromebook all that kind
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of stuff it's 50 bucks and it gives you
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a very real way to add pen support to
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devices like this one that don't even
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have a
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touchscreen so you've probably heard the
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uh the company name Wacom before um some
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of the early styluses that were in
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Chromebooks were actually Wacom EMR
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styluses and all that kind of stuff
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they've been at this for a very very
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long time and they have tablet like
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Graphics tablets that are far more
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expensive than this one uh this is this
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is just a really cool kind of entry
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level option uh and that's what became
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so intriguing uh about it to me is that
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you could get a wireless pin some of the
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older tablets had like wired pins that
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felt a little clunky uh um you can get
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really really good pen input support you
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get some buttons that you can customize
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up here for 50 bucks and that's not on
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sale I think when we got this one I
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think it was on sale for like 10 bucks
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off uh it actually will hook up
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wirelessly as well so uh it's really
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cool and we just I don't know just kind
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of wanted to show show you what it looks
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like actually using it uh cuz there are
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a couple little quirks with using a
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graphics tablet in the way that it works
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with the mouse pointer uh so I wanted to
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show you how uh for 50 bucks you can
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basically just plug this thing into a
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Chromebook that doesn't even have a
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touchcreen and and achieve some some
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pretty decent pen and and inking uh in
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Chrome OS okay so I've got this thing
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all plugged in it just has a a little
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connector cable that plugs in through
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USB type A it does do a Bluetooth
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connection uh we'll talk about that in
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just a second but the like the
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smoothness of it on screen isn't as
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smooth like uh it probably won't bother
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me on this screen but on my uh desktop
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where I've got 120 HZ screen or if
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you're on something like the 516 G from
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a you're going to run into issues
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because uh the the Bluetooth mode won't
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do the 120 HZ refresh you can definitely
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tell it's it's 60 so uh we'll get it
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paired up here in just a second and kind
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of see what it does it's a 60 HZ screen
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on the Samsung but in your settings as
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soon as you plug it in uh there's
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actually an option for pen tablet right
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there on the screen now before I do any
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navigating I'm going to explain how this
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works so all of all of these graphic
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tablets are the same so say I put my
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mouse cursor right here in the middle of
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the screen it's not like I'm swiping on
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here to move the mouse around it's going
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to go wherever the pen tip goes relative
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to the uh the pad so if I go to the
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upper left corner here and get the pin
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close you can see now my mouse cursor is
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here if I want to go to the center I'm
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going to go to the center of the pad
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bottom right upper left that takes a
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minute to get used to if you're going to
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use this as like a navigating tool it
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does take a minute to get used to cuz
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you just I I tended to want to sit there
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and like to like slpe it like a trackpad
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it is not a trackpad uh so to make no
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mistake that's not what what we're
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dealing with here um but there's a
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couple buttons on the pin there's four
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programmable buttons up here we're going
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to talk about that now but so once I get
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this down here I can hover it and you
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can kind of see it moving to where I
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want to go so I'm going to go to pen
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tablet and just tap and because I don't
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have my button set up right now so you
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can see it picks up on the tablet name
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right there uh I'm going to customize my
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pen buttons real quick I'd like my front
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button to be a left click I just kind of
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like that because then I can hover and
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I'll make my rear button a right click
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how about that so now once I back out of
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this and that's saved I can I can be
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hovering and actually click my left
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button and and go in like that feels
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pretty natural to me and then this
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button being you can make it back you
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can make it quite a few things so
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Express key is what they call these
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there's four of them across the top here
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um so say I want to make the the F the
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left and right one say I want to go uh
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um I want to make
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them um overview I feel like I did yeah
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create key combo so we'll do that so say
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I want to make this my left and right
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virtual desks I'm going to do my virtual
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desk shortcut I'm going click
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save and key combination on this
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one I'm going to go the other
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way save I think you got to back out
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before those work but now I can virtual
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desk with those super handy if you're
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using this to navigate again options are
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endless you can make them back Keys you
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can do any key combo you want and you
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can do that same thing with the the
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buttons here so you can really kind of
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customize this thing down um and again
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once you get used to the fact that hey I
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want to I want to go hit that minus uh
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that minimize button up there I'm not
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swiping my way there I just put the pen
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up there and I'm there and then I can
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use my left click I just created good to
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go and I'm going to go down here and I'm
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going to actually open up uh cursive and
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um just we got a pin here yep
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and you can see I mean it's very very
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very responsive I mean there's just no
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lag whatsoever there um and you would
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think that this would be weird but
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there's something about the fact that it
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stays relative to the pad and relative
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to the screen that it you just after a
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second of doing it it's not hard to find
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your way around the space of the screen
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um like I said it takes a minute to get
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used to but that's not a big deal really
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once you if you need pen support like if
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you're constantly writing and marking up
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PDFs all the time this is a super handy
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tool you take a screenshot here I'll
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take a screenshot right now so boom
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we'll do that we'll do full
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screen take
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capture and then we're going to edit
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this
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guy and say I need to mark this thing up
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I don't do this very often if you can't
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tell and I'm going to go uhuh don't do
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that don't do
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that uh we like this Smiley it's good
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good I mean just no lag that feels great
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I can hit done up here I can save that
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and and I can move on and send that in
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an email or whatever and so you get the
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like even though I can't go up here and
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ride on the screen like after just a few
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seconds of using this it's like your
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brain figures it out and just kind of
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makes this work now for me that's the
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way that I would use it um I would just
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plug it in when I need it unplug it when
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I don't but like I said there is a
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Bluetooth method and to be fair I didn't
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try this on a non 120 HZ screen so you
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just hold your power button down for a
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second it's going to start
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blinking and we're going to go down
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here just like You' pair any other
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device Wacom shows up and we paired up
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let's just see yeah I mean you can
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definitely see I'm hoping the camera's
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picking up on that like it's not missing
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the spaces you can just kind of tell
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like it's not lagging so as soon as I go
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somewhere it gets there it's like the
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frame rate's low so ultimately when it
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comes down to writing
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let's see
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I yeah it just looks different it looks
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weird to me and it so that breaks some
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of it um if all you're doing is like
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going going I'm going to circle this
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we're going to x that out and we're
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going to check mark here and scribble
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this and circle that if you're doing
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that kind of stuff honestly um the
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Bluetooth mode would work but the lag of
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it if you're going to be writing or
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sketching anything I really feel like
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just hooking it in with a cable uh is
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probably the way to go but yeah I mean
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it's a pretty simple way any in an
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affordable way really cuz I mean if a
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good Stylus is going to cost you 40 50
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bucks for that you're getting the stylus
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you're getting the cable you're getting
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the pad uh you're getting bluetooth
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support all that kind of stuff and you
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can hook this up to any Chromebook it's
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going to work with any any Chrome OS
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device uh it'll work with u um Chrome
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boxes if you wanted Chrome bases it
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doesn't matter Chrome OS will work with
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this thing just plug it in uh it's Plug
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and Play Chrome OS clearly understands
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that it's uh a Wacom tablet and works
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very very well with it so if you are
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holding out buying something like the
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Samsung Galaxy Chromebook plus and going
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ah I just needed some sort of pen
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support um and you know that was the
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main reason you didn't pick it up Well
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here here's a $50 accessory that you can
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get uh to actually add some some pretty
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usable really reliable pen support uh
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via the Wacom N20 tablet but guys that's
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