Aspire Active Stylus V

I saw the Aspire Active Stylus V (Part# NP.STY1A.005) in the Acer store and wanted to buy it to use with the Acer R13 (R7-372T-77LE) laptop, since the R7-372T is listed as compatible with this stylus. I am wondering if anyone has this stylus or has more information than what is one the product page.


Does it work well enough to take good handwritten notes?

Does the Active Stylus V have palm rejection (so that I can set my wrist on the screen while using the stylus)?

What technology does the Active Stylus V use, is it synaptics, N-trig or Wacom?

What is the difference between the Active Stylus V and the Active Stylus II (which worked with last years R7-371T models), tech wise?

 

Apparently it's still a Synaptics digitizer and so is the stylus (although it's really hard to confirm 100%). Synaptics it's not that great.
As to the differences between the two and palm rejection I cannot comment for the same reason - not enough technical specs.

 

I am not sure if it is still a synaptic digitizer becasue I read on another site that the old Acer Active Stylus and the Dell Active Stylus, both of which are synaptics digitizers, do not work with this year's model of the Aspire R13, even though they both worked with last year's model.

 

I can confirm that the Dell Active Stylus does NOT work with the new Acer R13 (R7-372T-77LE). I tried it out in microcenter the other day.... when the stylus gets close enough to hover you do get a hover cursor... but it will not otherwise interact with the screen. Maybe its an evolution of the Synaptics digitizer.

How do you like your R13? Its on my short list right now. Love the thunderbolt 3 port and possiblity of external GPUs down the road, and the screen seems very bright and high contrast. Not to mention the hinge.

 

I don't have the R13. I wanted to confirm active digitizer support before buying the laptop but since I can't I'm going to go with another laptop, most likely HP Spectre x360.

If you want to see a review of the new Acer R13 (R7-372T-77LE), I know one user posted one on the Acer community forums.

 

Thanks. I'm bouncing around between machine choices myself. The Thinkpad Yoga 14 (460) from best buy is my #1 choice right now but want it to go on sale. The Acer R13 is right up there... the previous generation (broadwell, no thunderbolt) is selling for $699 at costco.com til the end of the month... thought bout it but the thunderbolt and skylake are likely worth the extra $200. I like the spectre x360 as well... but want a dedicated GPU or at least a roadmap to add one down the line. Which in 2-in-1s limits me to the skylake Acer, thinkpad yoga 14, yoga 700, yoga flex 3 (yoga 500) off the top of my head.

 

I was also going to get the broadwell Acer R13 from cotsco for that deal but then I started reading about a lot of problems with the keyboard for the broadwell and haswell versions and decided against it.

I also really like the best buy Thinkpad yoga 14/460, especially since it comes with a wacom pen, but I'll be traveling with this laptop a lot so I want something under 3.5 lbs. But since you want the dedicated GPU this is a good choice. Im pretty sure the other ones you listed don't have active digitizer support so if you want that you should go with the yoga 14/460.

 

Your right... they don't have active digitizers and have other drawbacks as well. The 700 and flex 3 both have small batteries and the flex 3 has a large gap between the glass and the screen which makes the screen look washed out. They are just some of the only dGPU options out there. The surface book qualifies but thats a whole lot more cash. Btw, i've had ntrig (surface 3 pro), wacom and synaptics (venue 11 pro) digitizers and the synaptics was the worst of the lost. It works ok... its not at the same level as the other two yet. But its gotten better since the venue. I took my dell active stylus and played with the 13" and 15" spectre 360 and they worked well enough in one note and fresh paint with pressure sensitivity.

Btw... if you want to see a computer crash... put a synaptics active pen up against an HP pavilion x360 screen. The screen supports the digitizer but its not officially supported and somethings missing... the whole thing goes wonky and the display driver crashes hard every time.

 

Yeah, synaptics isn't great but it will get the job done. A best buy employee let me try out the HP Active Pen on the Spectre but for that stylus you had to use a lot of pressure for it to even register, wheras the Dell one doesn't need as much.

The Surface book would be perfect if it was within my budget, along with the thinkpad yoga x1 and the vaio z flip. But sadly they cost more than I'm willing to spend.

Wow.. So I'm guessing that will happen with the HP pavillion even if you pair HP's own active pen with it since its aso synaptics.

 

I view the Best Buy edition of the Thinkpad Yoga 14 (460) as the affordable Surface Book. nearly the same specs (6200u vs 6300u, 940m vs 940m (tweaked to be like the forthcoming 940mx) both 2-in-1 devices, etc. etc. The surface book is most costly and less expandable. The Thinkpad is heavier and more expandable.

I haven't tried pairing it... just held the pen to the screen and BOOM.

 

Is there any other brand of stylus compatible with the Acer Aspire R7-371T? I have the Acer Active stylus and frankly, it's a piece of crap. I love the Surface pens because they're all metal and don't have breakable plastic bits.