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4.5
About 4 months ago, I converted from a loyal Apple customer to Windows/Android. It's worked a lot better for me so far. Initially, I was looking for a couple key features in a PC--I wanted a convertible that could act like a tablet with a touchscreen, I wanted pen compatibility, and I didn't want to just go with a tablet because I wanted proper computer processing functionality. I was in Best Buy with a friend when, out of the blue, they offered to buy me one of the laptops on display. I chose a computer I hadn't even realized existed, thus far in my search--an HP Pavilion x360 convertible.My HP Pavilion is, overall, brilliant. It has 4 main modes--laptop, tablet, tent, reverse--a responsive touch screen, and--as purported in the About info for the system--pen connectivity. But here's where I ran into a little bit of difficulty. My Pavilion doesn't seem to exist anywhere online. No Amazon pen I found specifically listed my particular model under the compatible laptops, and they listed plenty of others. On the HP website, the closest thing I found to my computer is indeed an HP Pavilion x360 convertible 14", but it has the wrong intel core and all the ports (while all accounted for) are in different places. Given how my computer seems to practically exist in a pocket universe where no one but me even acknowledges its existence, I was worried about finding a compatible pen.I found ONE single pen on Amazon that looked like it would work. While it didn't list compatibility with my model specifically, it was the only pen that listed NO specific models but specifically said it was compatible with the HP Pavilion x360 14" convertible. From there, there were 4 different options for the base product, and only a single one had all the features I was looking for: pressure sensitivity, palm rejection, and rechargability. I was so afraid it wouldn't work with my model.Turns out it does. It is indeed pressure-sensitive, it does indeed support palm rejection, it does indeed charge via USB. The product page purports it to have a long battery life, but I can't speak for that yet. Additionally, this pen has solidified my opinion of Windows vs. Apple. The apple pencil, which I used to use, costs at least $99, works with only one generation of the iPad (you have to upgrade both at the same time), and ONLY draws. For other art functionality you have to rely on app functions on your tablet. This pen, on the other hand, has all the technical features of an apple pencil...but draws, erases, and selects, all at the press of a button on the side. And it comes with two free tips, whereas Apple gives only one. In other words, this pen has at least 3 times the valueof an Apple pencil for about a fifth of the price. That's a bargain, as far as I'm concerned.
