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Now, I have 3 different style of Active/Capacitive Stylus for my HP Envy x360 15-1xx series
1. Refurbished Wacom Bamboo
2. Capacitive Stylus
3. Certified Surface Pen
This review is for Bamboo Pen but I will provide the overall comparison with the others, you can see my other reviews under the other 2 products review
My husband bought me the Bamboo pen a while back, it is a pricey pen and I lost it during our road trip.
So he bought me this as a replacement and this time is a the refurbished one LOL
Then I lost it again but this time I lost it at home. Fortunately this one showed up, unfortunately it showed up after I bought the stylus and the surface pen.
I really love it when I first get it. It helps me with my art & craft and digital drawing.
Several things bother me tho and I cannot find out the solutions to fix it eventho it supposed to work.
I tried to set the button to other function but it doesn’t work and does not have much option that useful for my needs.
I wish this has the tilt function but I am using my laptop more for art&craft and drawing so it does not/has not bother me yet.
Sensitivity and accuracy can be an issue once a while, it glitches.
And there’s some lag as well when somehow the communication is disrupted.
I do like the shortcut on the top of the Bamboo pen than allow me to open Ink. I wish I can adjust it to open other app. I read that I should be able to but so far I have not been able to do so.
The Bamboo comes with 3 different hardiness tips, the one on the Certified Surface Pen comes with 2 tips. It has plus and minus on both but they are both are preferences than functionality.
The softer tip is nicer to write in my opinion.
The harder tip is easier and feel nicer to draw something more detail. I feel has more control on the harder tip.
I prefer the erase function on the Cert Surface Pen since it is easier and faster to erase the drawing and writing. The Bamboo erase function works well for writing not so much for drawing compare to my other pen.
They both ignore my palm touching the screen which is what it supposed to be.
The stylus, can we be used to write and draw but our palm cannot touch the screen (Capacitive stylus Pen).
I couldn’t find any information about my laptop if it support tilt functionality or not. I wish I bought the cert surface pen with tilt support to test it out. Maybe next time
They all works as its expected to.
But I have to give Bamboo 4 * since the price is a lot higher than the Cert Surface Pen and they both work similar.
Stylus is a 5, for the stylus this is a very good quality one and works very well. The 2 tips works nicely without having to do any setting or adjustment. And it is flexible enough so my son’s and husband can use it on their regular touch screen device
The certified surface pen, I am giving it a 5 since the price is way cheaper than Bamboo and it works almost the same.
If price is not an issue, then you should go with the pen that made specifically for your system. I go with Bamboo because the HP pen is more expensive than Bamboo. The HP pen will have better support for my laptop since it is designed for this laptop. Since the cert surface pen works as good as the Bamboo, I wish I bought that one instead of the Bamboo.
Unless you are a real artist with a high end device, any of this stylus/pen will work for you.
