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hey guys what is going on my name is jen
and i'm here to help you understand your
everyday tech one video at a time and
today we're talking about the apple
pencil second generation versus the
logitech crayon this video is going to
be kind of a part two to my previous
video on this topic but i didn't want to
repeat the same information i covered in
that video i would still go watch that
if you haven't seen it so what i did was
i went out and got the ipad mini 6th
generation and the 11 inch ipad pro from
2021 this is the model with the m1
processor so you guys can see how these
devices perform on two ipads with very
different display technologies we're
going to talk about the advantages each
one has and how much latency you'll be
able to notice when you're riding on
different types of displays this time
around i got the special edition space
gray logitech crayon this used to be an
apple exclusive but has now become
available at other stores so i guess
it's not really an exclusive anymore but
other than the different color it
functions exactly the same as its orange
brother it uses the same apple pencil
technology in the tip it charges via the
lightning port at the top with a rubber
cap and is designed so that it doesn't
quite roll around as easily the apple
pencil 2 on the other hand resembles its
ancestor but this time you don't have
that stupid magnetic cap it charges just
by attaching to the ipad which i think
is one of the best features of the apple
pencil and as a little bonus the new
flatter side
allows it to have a little bit more roll
resistance than the first generation the
tip is also replaceable so in case you
ever wear it down or it ever stops
working you can always buy replacements
in case that happens and of course while
you're writing you can quickly double
tap on the pencil to switch tools i
usually have mine go back to the eraser
both of these devices use the same apple
pencil technology so it interacts with
the ipad seamlessly you don't have to
really worry about it not functioning
things like palm rejection and latency
are exactly the same we'll come back to
latency here in a second now i had
previously mentioned that the logitech
crayon uses some voodoo magic to connect
to the ipad because it does i can turn
off bluetooth and wi-fi and it'll still
work which is crazy you can't use both
the apple pencil and the logitech crayon
at the same time on the same ipad you do
have to unpair the apple pencil in order
to use the logitech crayon but i
discovered something really really cool
when i was trying to test the
connectivity of these so if you had the
logitech crayon paired to one ipad and
it was previously paired to another ipad
it works for both like you can use it on
both of the ipads interchangeably and
write and do all the stuff that it can
without needing to repair it every
single time like you do with the apple
pencil because with the apple pencil you
have to stick it on the side of the ipad
that you want to use it with and give it
a moment to pair it's usually pretty
fast but this this is just some other
like next level connection that could
come in really really handy
now i covered this more extensively in
my previous video but the other
functionality difference that these two
have is pressure sensitivity so for
example if you press down to make a
thicker line or you lift up on your hand
a little bit and you start writing
lightly the apple pencil will detect
that change in pressure the logitech
crayon does not have that hardware to do
so however that does not mean you cannot
make some thick lines
with the logitech crayon depending on
what apps you're using i've seen the
thickness of your cursor be affected by
how fast you draw on the display or by
the angle that you're holding the
logitech crayon at you can always
manually adjust the thickness but if
you're doing things like drawing and
illustrating that's not going to be very
practical however if you are not drawing
or illustrating and you're just taking
notes writing on the ipad using scribble
or if the applications you're using do
not take advantage of that pressure
sensitivity for example the app that i'm
using right now is good notes 5 and you
can see that with the apple pencil and
the logitech crayon we're getting near
identical results with the standard pen
tool
obviously this can change if you use
different tools or brushes but for note
taking it makes no difference all right
let's talk about how these two devices
perform but more importantly what if you
buy one of the lower end models of the
ipad like the ipad air or the ipad mini
those have now been refreshed with a new
design that supports the second
generation apple pencil will upgrading
to the more expensive ipad pros
really give you any advantage in this
area as you know the ipad pros have a
more advanced promotion display that
refreshes faster than other ipads so
theoretically this should cut down on
the amount of latency when you're
writing so let's throw these into slow
motion and see what we get
all right on the top we have the ipad
mini 6 and on the bottom we have the
ipad pro m1 both using the apple pencil
second generation and if you look really
closely at the pencil tip you can see
that the ipad pro does respond ever so
slightly faster than the ipad mini
however the differences are not as large
as they used to be on the older
generation ipads this is playing back at
25 speed and on the ipad pro it's just
silky smooth all right now let's try it
on the logitech crayon same deal here
the logitech crown is paired to both of
these ipads actually and i'm just doing
the test one by one and you can see that
it looks pretty much the same as how the
apple pencil performed it performs very
well on both of these ipads but it's
ever so slightly slower on the ipad mini
versus the ipad pro now let's stack
these two up head to head alright so
with both on the ipad mini 6 you can see
that the latency
looks pretty much exactly the same
because it is from what i can tell
neither of them pull ahead
they feel the same when you're writing
it so you don't get an advantage with
one pen or the other and on the ipad pro
both of them get the benefits of that
promotion display so it's not exclusive
to the apple pencil like you might think
it would have been such an apple thing
to do for them to make it faster on the
apple pencil versus everything else but
thankfully they did not sharing the same
latency technology and how it interacts
with the ipad software and displays make
both of these devices equivalent in
terms of performance alright lastly
let's talk about price retail for the
apple pencil is one hundred and twenty
nine dollars for the logitech crayon
retail is seventy dollars for both color
variants right now amazon has the
logitech crayon for sixty dollars the
apple pencil is also on sale during
black friday i have seen this go down to
about a hundred bucks i'll put some
product links in the description below
this may change as time moves on so do
keep that in mind but historically the
price difference between these two have
been about 40 to 50 percent so if you're
trying to decide between these two
devices and you're not really sure which
one to go for ask yourself this is the
convenience of the magnetic charging
worth the extra money and worth that
extra bit of battery drain on your ipad
or would you rather save that money and
go for the logitech crayon you are
giving up pressure sensitivity though so
if you're doing illustration or art that
might not be the best idea but if you're
a student you're taking notes you're
writing stuff down you want to just
treat this as a pen for your ipad you
can do that with the logitech you don't
have to spend that extra money i hope
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peace just so you know i'm doing this
when there's no music in the background
so
you can imagine how awkward that is i
really should have a mirror here so i
can see how stupid i look okay i'm done