Hello everyone, I'm brand new on here but I have browsed this site many times before especially when I purchased my first windows phone a few years back.
Anyway I recently was looking around to buying a tablet geared more towards productivity than anything else. I have had an apple ipad 2 and honestly I was unimpressed, so now I purchased the surface rt and I loved it. Ive been using it with my college courses and its an absolute dream to use.
Now comes the problem. For me the surface is great, does everything and more than what I need, but... when I purchased a stylus so that I could take handwritten notes, I was left questioning the surface. Now I understand that the Pro has an actual digitizer in the screen with the proper stylus and is MADE for Inking. That I fully understand, unfortunately I do not have enough funds to go out and purchase what is basically the cost of a higher end laptop, so I stuck with the RT for a fraction of the price. Now I have used a stylus on the Ipad and it was perfect for my needs, I never had an issue, and so I figured it would be the same with the RT. The moment I went to write a simple word on the surface, it came out looking like dog s@*$... I mean my handwriting is not that bad :shocked:, after a bit of testing I realized that lines drawn at a 45 degree angle seem to look very similar to a sine wave, very consistent throughout the line.
Ive been looking on forums and videos to find a solution and all people reply with is: "Well its not a pro so no digitizer and does not support real inking" Yes I am aware of that, but its not a 20 dollar touch screen either. I downloaded an app from the android store on my cheaper metro Huawei Phone ( which I love) and drew lines on it and guess what, it came out just like on the ipad, if not more fluid.
I cant figure out if it is hardware or software as it is not very apparent if I draw with my finger, and some apps seem to diminish that effect to a certain extent. Can anyone help me here and I imagine a whole group of us with the same problem? I would really love to use this for notetaking and this is making it impossible. I have also passed the return date for Tiger Direct so that's not even an option now unfortunately
One more thing to add. I have seen videos with higher end styli (I believe that's the word) such as the adonit Jot Pro, and they seem to work fantastically, but its a long list of people saying it will scratch your screen so im out of that option too, I did find a far more expensive Adonit Jot Script which seems perfect, but I am just not sure that will honestly take care of the issue I am having with the wavy diagonal lines.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I really hope to get this fixed or solved before the next semester of school. Ill be needing it.
Thanks in advance
Sergio S.
Anyway I recently was looking around to buying a tablet geared more towards productivity than anything else. I have had an apple ipad 2 and honestly I was unimpressed, so now I purchased the surface rt and I loved it. Ive been using it with my college courses and its an absolute dream to use.
Now comes the problem. For me the surface is great, does everything and more than what I need, but... when I purchased a stylus so that I could take handwritten notes, I was left questioning the surface. Now I understand that the Pro has an actual digitizer in the screen with the proper stylus and is MADE for Inking. That I fully understand, unfortunately I do not have enough funds to go out and purchase what is basically the cost of a higher end laptop, so I stuck with the RT for a fraction of the price. Now I have used a stylus on the Ipad and it was perfect for my needs, I never had an issue, and so I figured it would be the same with the RT. The moment I went to write a simple word on the surface, it came out looking like dog s@*$... I mean my handwriting is not that bad :shocked:, after a bit of testing I realized that lines drawn at a 45 degree angle seem to look very similar to a sine wave, very consistent throughout the line.
Ive been looking on forums and videos to find a solution and all people reply with is: "Well its not a pro so no digitizer and does not support real inking" Yes I am aware of that, but its not a 20 dollar touch screen either. I downloaded an app from the android store on my cheaper metro Huawei Phone ( which I love) and drew lines on it and guess what, it came out just like on the ipad, if not more fluid.
I cant figure out if it is hardware or software as it is not very apparent if I draw with my finger, and some apps seem to diminish that effect to a certain extent. Can anyone help me here and I imagine a whole group of us with the same problem? I would really love to use this for notetaking and this is making it impossible. I have also passed the return date for Tiger Direct so that's not even an option now unfortunately
One more thing to add. I have seen videos with higher end styli (I believe that's the word) such as the adonit Jot Pro, and they seem to work fantastically, but its a long list of people saying it will scratch your screen so im out of that option too, I did find a far more expensive Adonit Jot Script which seems perfect, but I am just not sure that will honestly take care of the issue I am having with the wavy diagonal lines.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I really hope to get this fixed or solved before the next semester of school. Ill be needing it.
Thanks in advance
Sergio S.