I haven’t tried the Apple Pen before, so thankfully I don’t have that comparison. I looked into getting an iPad instead, but they run iOS, and the Surface Pro is a full -fledged computer, complete with desktop OS, not a mobile OS. So I felt that it would be better for day-to-day use outside of my drawing. So far I’ve been very pleased with it, other than my normal complaints about Windows. What’s odd is that a lot of the annoyances I had with Windows on my desktop aren’t present on this Surface. They don’t re-enable all the privacy shit I turned off every update, they don’t show me ads, and a lot of other things. Idk why that is, but I’m glad.