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Pic related finally released this week.
For those unaware, it's the only dedicated Wacom AES tablet ever. I don't know what the fuck it is with lelnovo and advertising, but there's zero announcements about it even on their site. I've been refreshing the page for three months in anticipation, and it just fucking silently showed up one day.
I'm cautiously optimistic about the jitter situation. I'm also incredibly nervous about the USB-C only output. Thankfully the return policy is pretty relaxed, so if I need to send this back to china it won't be hard.

>>4777540
Surface isn't AES, it's MPP. Formerly N-trig. Formerly Wacom AES 1.0.
iPad isn't AES, it's Apple's own proprietary brand.
Every brand of laptop manufacturer makes a line of laptops with an active digitizer these days. Some of which are Wacom AES 2.0. What year are you living in?

>>4777625
AES is VERY expensive. You need extremely dense coiling on the digitizer.
Wacom has intentionally sabotaged its own AES products in the past to avoid competing with Cintiqs.
See the Lenovo A940 for an example. They literally forced a custom firmware to disable tilt on it because they realized it completely btfo all of their EMR products.
Also, pic related would like a word with you.

>>4754753
AES isn't the name of the tech, but a variety of active digitizer made by Wacom. There are many brands of active pen, some of which are compatible. The iPad uses active tech. So do most 2-in-1s, except some Acer and Samsung devices. In the future, most active pens will use a single standard called USI. They've already started rolling those out this week.
Anyway
Active digitizers are a different approach to drawing. With EMR, you still have to trick your brain into seeing the cursor rather than your pen tip.
There's always going to be some parallax with EMR. It has gotten better lately, but it's still present even on a $2000 Cintiq. It's fundamental. Your cursor and your pen are different things with EMR. You have to adapt, although that's not hard.
Active digitizers eliminate this problem. your cursor will always be exactly where the pen contacts the screen. Always.
EMR is then just an awkward alternative to using a screenless tablet. The only benefit is that you get to look at your meaty hand while you draw.
The downsides to active pen technology are minimal and heavily dependent on the implementation. In the early days, N-Trig was fucking atrocious and had a lot of jitter. AES 1.0 was decent, but still suffered a little.
That was almost a decade ago. Technology improves. Training wheels come off. Today we have AES 2.0 and MPP 1.51/2.0, which includes N-Trig, Synaptics ...etc. With the right pen, none of these jitter. Soon we will have USI, which means all pens are the right pen. They even do tilt well.
The battery is the only big downside.
You are also limited in your device choice for now, since most active screens are built into a computer. That is changing too, Lenovo has a portable AES 2.0 screen coming in September.
Five years ago, people would say AES and EMR were neck and neck. And AES has only gotten better since then.
The constant EMR praise you see today is just Chinese shilling. Huion et al have a vested interest in the legitimacy of EMR.