Lenovo Digital Pen 2 (Laptop) – Ultra-Tactile Response – 4,096 Levels of Pressure – Natural Feel Elastometer Pen Tip – Extended Battery Life – Silver, Grey

Artist’s stake: Wacom’s pens failed so I tried this and it’s great.
Ok, I’ll start with the pen review before diving into my frustration with Wacom.The pen is really solid, I got it for $30 and it’s really nice to work with on my Lenovo Yoga 730 2-in-1. The pen has a hard, smooth tip which I prefer for working digitally, lets the pen slide nicely instead of having friction. I included work in progress pic, (fanart of Alex Ahad’s Octavia) where I started, inked, colored and started shading with this pen only and I’ve been very happy with the performance. There’s no disconnects, no weird bugs, I can easily and consistently ink with no issues.The activation force is also very low so it starts drawing when the pen touches the glass.For $30? I’m VERY happy with this pen.Biggest complaint I have is that they give you a pen stand that is honestly a headscratcher. It ..plugs into your USB port and you can slide it in the side or put it in the top. This just seems like it’d damage the USB port of anything were to bop it the right way. Maybe that’s just me. It comes with 3 replacement nibs and a tool to remove them, very good.There is a second version to this pen which- I saw reviews say has a rubberized tip, so maybe that’s for you but I don’t like adding artificial friction to my art. It’s supposed to have more pressure range but honestly 2k is more than fine for me. Though, the box for the pen claims this one can do upto 4000 levels depending on your laptop. How do you tell that? No idea.On to my frustration with wacom:I got 2 pens from wacom, a $100 pen, Bamboo Ink which was pretty good, my problem was it felt like you had to activate it by pressing it, it didn’t start drawing till you felt a very slight give and it just did not feel natural or good. It made it hard to get things right. For $100? That’s incredibly disappointing.The Bamboo Ink Smart Stylus was $50 and it wrote just about as good as this pen, however it took me 3 attempts to get one that wasn’t defective and yes I tried it on another laptop- of a person it ALSO took 3 pens to get one that worked (also it died in 3 months so, great QC Wacom. Wacom’s pens also are buggy as heck.If you rotate your display and the display changes? The Wacom pens will both require you to restart the art software OR the laptop, and neither work with Miracast (wireless display adapter). If you turn it on? It’ll be a good 2 inches to the side of where you draw. Which is annoying because it’s a good way to put some video or references on a TV while you work.The lenovo pen which, I believe is wacom based tech, works with miracast on and I’ve not had a single disconnect problem or any accuracy problems even when letting the screen rotate. I ran it through anything I could think of and I’m happily drawing away in Clip Studio Paint the entire time.Get the wacom driver from the windows store and it’ll work perfectly with this pen. I didn’t have to do any set up at all besides that, put the pen to glass and it was drawing.The wacom pens are going to be tossed in a drawer as back ups at best but this lenovo pen I’m happy to use as a tool for art.Hopefully this helps someone because I know how Wacom gets talked up but I’ve honestly switched off their stuff since I, and my friends and so on have had enough problems for their excessively expensive devices to be avoided.Uh, ending rant here.

Great Pen…If you get what you ordered.
I originally ordered a used version of this pen as the new one was out of stock. The pen I received was not a Lenovo Digital Pen 2, but was one that stores inside the computer. I returned that one and ordered the new one that had come back into stock. This one came in a plain brown box, with no packing material, no user guide, and the battery was already installed. Seems like this is a used pen, not new. However, the pen itself is in like-new condition and works great right out of the box. It has a nice weight to it, pressure sensitivity works well, and it glides smoothly on my screen. The Lenovo Pen Settings app instantly recognized the pen and made it very simple to reprogram the two barrel buttons. The pen is great.

Glitching and lagging like crazy only 2 years into use.
awful. I’ve bene using for about 2 years, and it worked decently well, but after the lifespan of the first battery, the pen keeps glitching on me. There has frequently been a lag, but there are times where I’m trying to write but the pen isn’t even connected, so I either have to smack it against the table a couple times or I have to unscrew the pen and get the battery out and shake/smack it on the table. It also hurts my hand if you write for a long time. I even recommended this pen to someone but am now ashamed since she is ALSO facing the same issues of pen lag. Wouldn’t recommend to anyone. The worst part is that she started facing the lag right when I was, even though she had just bought it. I don’t know if this is a lenovo scam thing but it is evil. I got a lag 1.5 years later. Overall, don’t get this, even if you have the lenovo thinkpad whatever.

Original Good

Penna Lenovo fantastica!Comprata insieme al Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5 non consapevole che il computer arrivava già con una penna.Penna di qualità, che necessita una sola batteria AAAA (già inclusa). Si svita la parte superiore della penna dove si inserisce la batteria.La penna ha un’ ottima risposta ed è precisa, ha 2 tasti che si possono personalizzare attraverso l’app “Lenovo Pen Settings” scaricabile sul computer.La penna arriva anche con un “reggi-penna” di plastica che si può inserire in una porta USB per metterci la penna e averla a portata di mano.

I have a Lenovo Flex 14 2-in-1 laptop that came with the first Lenovo Active Pen which I’ve been using to take notes with OneNote and for digital art with Clip Studio Paint. Ever since I first got the laptop, the pen has had minor jumping and instability issues that have worsened over time, so I finally decided that it was time to upgrade to the Lenovo Active Pen 2.This was a great decision! The Lenovo Active Pen 2 does not have the same issues as the first pen, so I can enjoy a smooth writing and drawing experience. The tip is made of a rubbery material that introduces more friction than the hard tip of the first pen and the tip sinks into the pen less when pressed against the screen, so it feels much more pencil-like. This pen is a little bit longer than its predecessor, and I like the added weight more when I hold it. The two side buttons and the added back button are reminiscient of Microsoft’s Surface Pen, but using this pen feels much better than the Surface Pen as well due to the lack of push-back on the tip of the Lenovo Active Pen 2. When used with my laptop model, this pen has minimal jitter and noticeably lower parallax than the first Lenovo Active Pen.From my own hands-on experience, the Apple Pencil brings the most authentic experience when it comes to pen-on-tablet usage, but the Lenovo Active Pen 2 feels very close if not on-par with the Apple Pencil. When compared to the first Lenovo Active Pen and the Microsoft Surface Pen, I definitely prefer the feeling and comfort of this Lenovo Active Pen 2.