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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by lynda.com what's up everyone John render from TechnoBuffalo here the surface pro 3 was announced last week it's getting a lot of attention and I think rightfully so but what's really going under the radar is this guy this is the surface pen when we did our unboxing and hands on I got a lot of questions about this and how it's different and what it does and there's a lot of Technology crammed in this teeny tiny little pen let me show you what writing with this and this is all about alright so we've got the surface pro 3 and the surface pen and Microsoft said this was designed to look like a regular pen I don't know what kind of regular pens you're using but it definitely feels diameter wise and weight wise like a normal pen and like normal pens that add a little clicky thing on top this also has a little clicky thing on top and when you click it it's going to open up OneNote which is kind of handy why notes really the application of Microsoft is hoping you're going to use this with most if you're not doing any sort of drawing or graphic design so quick tour around the pen it's got a little clip if you want to clip it onto things and if you want to store it if you get a type cover which you probably should if you're using a surface you could store it right in here otherwise they're a little bit of magnetic spots on the left and right side you can sort of keep it there lightly but if you put a lot of weight on it or movement it's going to fall right off but there are magnet on the side you can store it there ok so you've got two buttons you've got one down below you've got one up top you've got a pressure-sensitive tip and a little clicky button what do you want use that as an eraser it is not going to work again click it it's going to wake up your surface and launch OneNote so immediately you can start drawing you can see that it's pretty close to 1 to 1 there Microsoft says between 0.5 and one millimeter of accuracy and this is definitely the most accurate that I've seen on any other shirt Ablett that I've used with a pen input it's really close to mirroring exactly what I'm doing without much of delay which is extremely impressive so if you click the top button to the one close to a clicky part you are going to get what shows up is a little bit of a menu option if you go ahead and flip that down you get different options for how you want two selectable color pens you want thickness the eraser and all kinds of other stuff but I'm not making contact with the tablet itself instead of hovering over it and the cursor starts to move so bear that in mind you can draw it again it's close to one to one but let's say you're drawing you want to draw on the left side and right-handed your palm is going to rest right on the screen well it's got smarts enough to know that that's not an input and it won't recognize your palms at all which is really extremely nice feature I think to go ahead and push down further the sensor tip you can get a bit of a thicker lines if you want so the top button the one closest to click you can use to select if you just sort of hold it down and draw around you gets or that circle thing that pops up and you go ahead and select an area you can move it anywhere you want let's say you don't like what you just did the button close to the point you called that down you can just start erasing things and it works pretty well we'll do two big erases if you want or smaller ones it's a really good one-to-one experience I've been really surprised with how good it is now I'm certainly not an artist I'm by no means an artist at all but I couldn't see myself writing notes on this it's almost seem like using a notepad I want to sort of write notes real quickly it works and works very very well so Microsoft is hoping you can place a complete pen and paper with this and this is the first time I've used a pen and foot that I think I actually could really really good don't judge this experience based on what the pen if it was on previous surface Pro's now this one is an entirely different experience and works really really well the quick sec from talking about this to tell you about our friends and good peeps at lynda.com they offer thousands of engaging easy to follow video tutorials that are taught by experts in the field like let's say you picked up a new surface you want to use a surface pen to learn how to be a graphic artist folks that Linda can teach you how to do that you can learn whatever you want from software creative and business skills they want to create a business just drawn stuff with this they can help you get their membership starts just 25 bucks per month and it's online so it's unlimited 24/7 access you can learn at your own pace or Aguila just sitting just binge you do courses in things like web design programming design photography business audio-video 3d animation ton of other things try lynda.com free for seven days by visiting lynda.com/tekzilla flow it's like more about this guy Microsoft did a pretty incredible job of this obviously their other application you can use microsoft includes painting applications and all kinds of other stuff to use with the surface pen this is just sort of an example of what you can do with it how well it works on that kind of thing but it does work very very well again here you can see all kinds of other options you can select but if you're the kind of person your graphic artist and you want to sort of decide this is the right thing for you I think rest assured that's going to work very well and you'll be relatively pleased with the effect and it can sort of it can get some watercolor effect going on here I could draw something I would say think this guy here leering at you that's his matte face this is a John Wright and red zone right here but again works very well really impressive Microsoft is done stay tuned for a full review of the surface pro coming I'll touch a little bit more on the pen but I'll reference back to this video when I discuss the pen input in the full review thank you guys for watching hope you enjoyed until next time I am John reticle TechnoBuffalo see ya next video bye bye thank you guys for watching if you have it yet please subscribe we'll be the first one to know and every upload new content we've got new stuff coming every single day we want to make sure you see what's new in the world of consumer electronics