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since the beginning of 2020 we've
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reviewed chromebook after chromebook
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with usi pen support and basically that
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just means they support a universal
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stylus and unfortunately we've always
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had to hold back our comments because we
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working usi pen and most of you out
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there have been asking us a lot
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about these pins and when they're going
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to arrive and when they're going to show
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well we have some good news they're
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starting to arrive we have one in the
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and we want to show you finally how much
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when they're ones that are actually
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we're going to demo this on the lenovo
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chromebook duet because
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hey it's probably of all usi chromebooks
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it's the one that's most popular it's
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probably sold the most it's low in price
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it's portable it's small it's going to
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lend itself to drawing and note taking
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it makes more sense to kind of demo it
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here but all of this stuff that we're
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going to talk about applies to other
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the ones we have on the desk here the
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the acer spin 713 asus flip c436
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the hp x360 14c and on and on and there
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will be other chromebooks that are going
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later this year that are also going to
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be usi compatible and so
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all of what we're going to show you
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applies to all of those because
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up until this point we've had to hold
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back on any comments about how well
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usi pens work because the only one we've
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hp and admittedly this is way
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we got this in and we thought hey hp is
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ready to start shipping this thing they
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informed us we were months out from
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and when it did show up they sold out
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pretty quickly and it apparently was a
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different model than what we have here
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but this is all we had so we would test
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it each time a new chromebook came in
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let me show you exactly kind of what
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we're dealing with so when i go to to
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write if i lightly touch the screen i'm
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touching the screen right now and that's
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what i'm getting now if i push down hard
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and you see i push down hard enough to
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move the chromebook it works
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but no one wants to write with constant
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pressure all the time and what this ends
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is if i attempt to write
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and don't push like everything just runs
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together because i can't lift the pen up
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and right if i write naturally like i
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there's my name and because it can't
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pick up those light touches
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and that's just a problem with this pin
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we've we've learned since that hp had an
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issue with the tip on this pin
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and they've kind of scrapped that and
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the ones that they shipped were an
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updated version that obviously we don't
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however fast forward and now we have a
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usi pin this is uh walltop they're
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odm so they're a company that will make
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and we talked about a pin on our website
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that you could go buy from iploom it is
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this pin basically but it's
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it's being kind of manufactured and
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shipped and branded as i plume
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there are more of these on the way so
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and this one you actually have to turn
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on real quick let me go back
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home here and open up a new drawing
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and show you the difference here so
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without pushing down or doing anything
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unnatural i can just lay the pin on the
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screen i'm not put you can tell i'm not
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putting any pressure on that thing
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and it works perfectly you get great
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i'm no artist by any stretch of the
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imagination but ultimately what i want
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from a pen is for it to be able to write
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naturally and so if i go to write my
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name my handwriting is terrible
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but you can see i don't have to do
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anything unnatural or push down really
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in order to get it to work and where
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this really comes in handy is actually
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navigating the ui so when i'm actually
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tapping on things and moving stuff
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i want to be able to move naturally
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through the interface and i have to
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shove the pen on the screen to move it
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so if i get the hp pen up again and
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touch you see it's not registering
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and actually have some force on the
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screen and so we were concerned that
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a problem with the usi standard and that
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this was going to be an ongoing issue we
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is not the issue at all this pen feels
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any aes stylus or emr stylus that we've
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seen on other chromebooks so
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count it up there with the samsung
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galaxy chromebook or the pixel book or
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as far as how responsive the pen input
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is and again i'm no artist but
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ultimately if i want to be able to take
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notes and put my hand down on paper you
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know and make a list and write
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very small and very accurately
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again my handwriting is terrible but
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usually if i pick up this pen and try to
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do that with something like this
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you just can't make it work because
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you're so focused on keeping pressure on
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it's almost impossible to write with
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this and while this does technically
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it was a terrible user experience so we
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just wanted to show you guys
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that usi pins are coming this one feels
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it actually works in some of the
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magnetized parts of chromebooks it's not
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specifically but it does work to attach
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to the magnets on chromebooks
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that that's not exactly what it's there
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for but they are metal they feel great
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the weight is great on them and again
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being able to write without pushing and
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and navigating the user interface easily
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and smoothly with this pen that's what
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people are after with a stylus that
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works with these and the benefit is here
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we've tried this on this and the flex 5
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and it works on all of them just the
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same so this is going to be the the
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lowest comma denominator here with this
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tablet because it's the slowest by far
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of all these chromebooks that support
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so any processing problems it would have
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obviously would slow some of the inking
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you see how good it is on the lenovo
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duet it's only going to be better on
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other processors that are faster and
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other chromebooks that have bigger
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screens and better processors so
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ultimately we feel very confident now
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that as usi pens begin to ship and begin
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and begin to show up from other makers
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and acer and all these companies that
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are going to begin making these
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this standard is going to be something
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pretty special and we're excited that
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we're not going to have to worry about
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pins working well they're just going to
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work across the board it's going to be a
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smooth experience and people are really
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being able to buy one pin and no matter
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what chromebook you go by this pen
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is just going to work on it but guys
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