![]() Even with haptic feedback, writing on the iPad feels like writing on glass. Apple says the iPad and Apple pen latency is 9 milliseconds, but again there is a perceptual quality that comes into play. The Remarkable 2 delivers that consistently. Because our minds fill in spaces to complete patterns and pictures, a 20-millisecond lag on a digital writing surface is close enough to the zero lag one gets writing on actual paper. ![]() Amateur tests are all over the place, but a lag of 19-21 milliseconds is the current sweet spot. The lowest latency appears to be 7 milliseconds. The ideal lag for electronic penmanship is … in the eye of the beholder. Pen lag, or latency, is the time it takes ink to appear when the stylus is applied to the screen. It’s mostly because of their 2020 relaunch, which offered subtle design upgrades and a not-so-subtle kick in their pen lag. The Remarkable 2 is trending, and so is the idea of digital pen latency. I peeked under their hood, looked at the fine print and kicked the tires (mixing metaphors is hard work) to see which ones are worth the money. Let’s Compare the Top Three Tablets As your analog-digital spy, I’ve secretly investigated three top devices. They are, experientially, the same as paper. They use electronic ink instead of backlighting (like the iPad), and so they’re more pleasant and better on your eyes. Looking at them, reading from them, is just like reading from paper. The Remarkable 2 and Ratta’s Supernote A5 X are a serious notetaker’s dream. But Electronic Note-taking Tablets Are So Cool! Undeniably so. The long game of using devices may be important. And, chopping them down is, perhaps, a bad idea for a planet that needs a whole lot of them to exhale to keep it from bursting into flames. Using a tablet now grows the market, leading to greater advances in minimizing environmental footprint while maximizing its capabilities. Same with all devices: They get better, cost less, have less impact on the environment. By its sixth or seventh iteration, power usage, production of its motherboard, and internal system may improve by a lot. The Remarkable 2 is only the second iteration of the device. Electronic tablets are still in the crib. It is a time-tested technology whose bugs and glitches were ironed out centuries ago. But wait a minute, what about the future? The technology of paper has reached its zenith. It can be concluded from this study that for a student considering a new note-taking device, paper notebooks seem to be more environmentally friendly than the tablets, given the current state of technology. According to science, paper is better for the environment. In all aspects of the study, using paper showed a significantly lower environmental impact. The scenario was populated by university students taking 70 pages of notes per class per semester. One 2020 analysis compared the life cycle assessments of an iPad, a Remarkable, and a paper notebook for their impacts on the environment. Which Is Why a Digital Notebook Is Better Unless it isn’t. Every page I tear off my recycled legal pad is the skin of a tree. Even if you work hard to use only paper salvaged from the enormous pile of discarded manuscripts mined out of Stephen King’s backyard. That affects the environment and grows your global footprint. Analog tools are made from natural resources. Most paper is paper, and when you use it to doodle a Douglas fir, you’re engaging in some dark irony. Although there are some alternatives to wood pulp paper, they are a sliver of the global market. But What If Cool Pencil and Paper Cred Is Bad for the Planet? There’s no way around it. But clearly, I’m no longer part of an emergent trend. I know it’s a little hipster, a little extra to nerd out over luxurious writing implements and Baron Fig (my love) cloth-bound notebooks. That disposability lets me be insanely creative without fearing I’m wasting expensive cotton rag on doodles. I like cheap paper instead of expensive stationery. The scritchy scritch drag of a pen’s nib over the paper. There are reasons to prefer pen and paper over stylus and glass. All my real work has been done on paper in logbooks and planners. But all it did was beep all the time and make me learn a new alphabet, which turned out to be useless and dumb. A million years ago, I thought my brand-new PalmPilot would change my life. I have a small rainforest’s worth of unused notebooks on my bookshelf. And That’s How I Gave Up Paper Notebooks for a Tablet Not totally - that’s impossible. Textbook work I can do in my sleep, except I broke the one rule you can’t ever break. My assignment was simple enough: Gather intelligence on the Remarkable 2 and determine its threat level to the analog way of life. With a flourish, I sign the signature line on a PDF on a Remarkable 2 to seal my fate. My face is bathed by blue light in the darkness.
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