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According to our creative director, the Surface’s digitizer is significantly worse than the Wacom one. iirc the first generation Surface licensed Wacom technologies, but in subsequent generations Microsoft switched to their in-house nTrig which they got through an acquisition.

In fact the Wacom is better by a large large enough margin that she’s willing to forgo using the (reasonably well-designed) Surface for the bastard child of a laptop that is the Wacom Cintiq Mobile Studio Pro 13.



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