Star Labs reveal their new StarLite, a Surface-like Linux tablet

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Star Labs reveal their new StarLite, a Surface-like Linux tablet
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it wouldn't be hard at all you just buy a stylus that works like a finger

With the catch that it works like a finger meaning fat and imprecise. A stylus like the surface has is more like a pen and needs hardware in the tablet to function.

Did you ever use the Nvidia Shield Tablet stylus? It was a very thin and precise passive stylus that worked on any touch screen. It was pretty nice. They probably only sold a handful of them, so there was no gen 2. I happen to know someone who was working on that project, so they let me play with it.

Not really. I've got a cheap stylus for my phone that acts like a pen, down to drawing fine lines too. It can't adjust the thickness of the line based on pressure, like my Wacom pad and pen for the PC, but for most things it works brilliantly :)