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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