Surface Pro 3 Wavy diagonal lines when inking

Just wanted to add my complaints. I'm having the same issue with the Surface Book. And based on this video, the new Surface Studio also has this issue to a lesser extent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28PW-L06WVE

Same issues here with Surface 3 (not pro) and the new surface pen.

My handwriting is nearly unreadable compared to my old surface pro with a wacom pen.

Extreme latency and distorted letters...

Seems, like there will be not improvement through new firmware ever...

Thanks for the detailed reply

so you are saying that X1 Yoga doubles as a decent graphic tablet in Terms of the pen functionality?

I only use my tablet for handwriting in OneNote, so I can't say whether an artist would prefer the X1 Yoga. The reason I got the X1 Yoga is because I tried it at my local Microcenter and found the jitter on diagonal lines to be very minor. It is present, but much closer to Wacom EMR (traditional Wacom tablet tech) than to Ntrig. It is minor enough that I am totally satisfied with the writing experience and no longer pine for an update to my X201t with Wacom EMR.

Lisa from MobileTechReview has a wonderful review of the X1 Yoga and another video specifically reviewing the pen experience. She prefers Ntrig over Wacom AES, citing parallax as her primary annoyance. I was never aggravated by parallax even on my X201t with Wacom EMR, so that didn't hold me back. If you have a local Microcenter, try out the X1 Yoga there. Best Buy has the ThinkPad Yoga 460 in stock (they call it the ThinkPad Yoga 14, I think), which has the same tech, but they don't keep styluses in stock, so you'd have to bring one.

Thanks for the detailed reply

so you are saying that X1 Yoga doubles as a decent graphic tablet in Terms of the pen functionality?

Hi MasCaritas

I appreciate you pasting SteviB's answer from the Reddit AMA here. That was quite a while ago and nothing ever came of it. The voltage increase, if implemented, does not seem to have had any effect. I'm not holding my breath.

I sold my SP3 around this time last year for $950, with type cover and dock. At the time, that represented about $1500 in lost sales to MS, since they saw no profit from my resale. Since then, they missed another sale to me last summer when I was considering buying a SP4 as a personal machine and decided against it after trying the pen in their store.

Recently, I needed to get a new machine for work. After my experience with the SP4 in the MS store, I didn't even consider the SurfaceBook; I got a ThinkPad X1 Yoga for $1900. At this point, MS has missed out on about $4000 in Surface-line sales just due to me. I think they are severely underestimating how much this problem is holding back potential buyers.

For the record, I'm very happy with the Wacom AES tech in the X1 Yoga. I was afraid it would be more like Ntrig than like traditional Wacom EMR, but it has proved very nice so far. Wacom AES works on the same principles as Ntrig: a powered stylus over a capacitive screen. Microsoft: invest in improvements to your pen technology! You are on the right track, but this issue is killing us.