 extremely poor design and subpar materials |
| Review Date: March 11, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Vasyl Shkura, Detroit, MI |
As other reviewers have mentioned this design and materials are a recipie for disaster. Side select button is a joke, breaks so easily! Same goes for a pen clip. With either or those broken you can't put pen in a tablet.
On the top of it, Lenovo is clearly cognizant of all those problems. Being a very clairvoyant company, it warrants this "pens" only for a year, despite the fact that your tablet might have 4 years of accidental protection on it.
After going through 2 replacements while it was under warranty, I tried to avoid this pen as a plague, so I used with great success Cross Executive Wacom pens. Unfortunately, those have been discontinued by Cross and having lost my last one, I am gluing two defective 41U3143 parts together in a hope of getting one working one (google 'Dang! I dropped my X61 pen!' on tabletpcreview).
I understand that Lenovo overprices accessories. Everybody does it to a greater or lesser degree, but please Lenovo provide some QUALITY if you are charging $50 for it!
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Easily broken and overpriced
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| Review Date: January 8, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Trent, |
I had one of these for about 2 years. It broke twice during that time period, very early (like 3-4 weeks) the gray button snapped forcing me to wrap a piece of scotch tape around it so that it would stay on and work. Later on, the big plastic piece on the back actually snapped off. Both times, the infernal pen got stuck inside of it's little place on the laptop. The first time (the grey button) it required unscrewing the laptop to get it back, I would imagine someone not as good with computers would have had to send it in to Lenovo.
This pen isn't worth more than $20.00 max.
Lenovo, listen to your customers: INCREASE the quality, or DECREASE the price. |
garbage
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| Review Date: December 30, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Pythagoras, New York, NY United States |
where to start?
The tip does not sync with it's placement on the tablet. The slight discrepancy is really annoying when drawing.
The little switch on the side breaks after about 8 hours of use. When this happens and you instinctively place it back into the laptop, it's stuck. The whole laptop has to be disassembled to remove it. This is the second pen I've had - the first one had to be sent back to Lenovo with the tablet to remove and replace. Granted, my grip may be tighter than some, but for $50+ you expect a bit of robust quality. Considering the high-tech gizmos inside, you'd expect more than a 10 cent enclosure. |
A $.29 pen in a $50 ripoff package
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| Review Date: October 22, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Vaslo, Pittsburgh, PA |
Lenovo's cheap design. The computer this pen is suited for is a very expensive tablet PC. You truly pay for the small size and the tablet. Unfortunately, to skimp, instead of giving you a quality digitizer pen, they give you a cheap plastic pen with a cheap plastic button on the side. If you apply even a little too much pressure to the grey button, it snaps, and not only is it irreparable, it also makes it impossible to get the pen correctly in and out of the PC. What's worse is if you put it in broken, it gets stuck and you have to open the computer, and last time I popped a few parts out that I have NO idea what they go with.
If you can't tell, I am LIVID at the garbage quality and frequent breaking of this $50 ballpoint pen...I am on my 4th barely a year and 3 months after owning the computer-thats an extra $200 I HAVE SPENT on an already overpriced computer. SKIP THE LENOVO until they decide to give quality for the cost. |
Same pen, breaks just as easily
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| Review Date: October 11, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Timothy J. Drozinski, Florida, USA |
This is identical to the pen that comes with your X60-series tablet. Unfortunately, that means the side button on it breaks just as easily as your original one did, which I know has happened to you, because otherwise you probably wouldn't be trying to buy a replacement. I don't understand why they ship the pen with two replacement nibs, which I've never had to use (how much wear can you possibly put on one of those things that you'd need to replace it, anyway?), but the button has just a tiny sliver of plastic holding it in place, which breaks after a few months of absolutely normal wear. How hard would it be to actually construct a button mechanism that is a little sturdier without changing the size, shape or cost of the pen? At $50 a pop, I would think beefing up the plastic tab or adding a different way to attach the pen isn't going to cut into the profit margin. Since I'm on my fourth pen in two years, I'm getting tired of having to replace them... not to mention going broke. Everything else about the tablet, I love. The super-expensive, cheaply made, easy to break pens suck.
But since your pen broke, this is probably the best thing to get, since I haven't found another one that works AND fits in the pen receptacle. |
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