![]() I’ve now spent the better part of a week using my Chromebook Duet 3 like a large Chrome OS tablet. Maybe it’s because I grew up at a time when personal computers - or PCs as we now know them today - were actually family computers used by an entire household, not just one person. Sure, I bring them with me when I travel but when I’m at home, I really tend to prefer the desktop experience. While I’ve owned several of the best laptops over the years, they always seem to end up connected to a monitor with an external keyboard and a mouse. ![]() Without a working USI stylus in hand, it was really easy to fall back into my old ways. The Lenovo USI Pen 2 (opens in new tab) did eventually go on sale but it didn’t start shipping until September - five months after the Chromebook Due 3 was released. However, this new USI 2.0 pen didn’t even have a listing page on its site when I placed my order. That’s right, Lenovo had updated its USI pen to support the new standard. While I had thoroughly researched every other aspect of my new 2-in-1, I hadn’t considered that the only USI pen with a “works with chromebook” endorsement on Lenovo’s site wouldn’t work with my Chromebook. ![]() In the two years between the release of the original Chromebook Duet and the Duet 3, the Universal Stylus Initiative released version 2.0 of their specification. Since USI is a universal standard after all, I figured it would work out of the box with my new Chromebook but boy was I wrong. Back in June of last year when I had the Chromebook Duet 3 sitting in my shopping cart, at the last minute I decided to also add the Lenovo USI Pen to my order.
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