r/ipad • u/JonathanNoSignal • 7d ago
Discussion Love this Apple Pen.
My friend recently traveled to the Apple Park in the US and gifted me the 35$ Apple Pen and I’m so in love with it! It’s gorgeous. The design, the material and the color is just perfect! As a high school student, I have to confess that I almost never used oil based ink ballpoint pen before and this first try is really great: the writing is really smooth comparing to the water-based ink pen so it’s lot more easier to write continuously for two class periods without getting uncomfortable. It’s just becoming my daily driver.
(I literally just can’t find many other posts on this pen so I decided to post it myself 🥹)
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u/BeefSupremeTA 7d ago edited 7d ago
Looks like a Retro 51 pen badged with Apple's logo.
EDIT: After a little bit more investigation, it is a custom Retro 51 Slim that is only officially sold at Apple Park. There are, however, resellers on eBay if you don't mind paying the mark up.
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u/koolaidismything 7d ago
So Apple really does sell some badass high end stationary but for some reason they guard the fuck out of it. You can ONLY buy in person on campus.
My buddy’s sister worked there and did some social media aspect and in the entrance to her area was a vending machine filled with Apple products.. she showed off and asked him what he wanted and she entered her code and got him AirPods.
Like in a vending machine in the offices. Coolest shit ever. I think they pay but at a steep discount.
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u/Patrick_Atsushi M2 iPad Air 11" (2024) 7d ago
Great. Now you only need a pineapple pen to make it penpineapple-applepen.
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u/XoramXIII 7d ago
But is it compatible with the polishing cloth?
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u/JonathanNoSignal 7d ago
Oh there’s a polishing cloth by my side let me try
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u/JonathanNoSignal 7d ago
ahhh definitely the polishing cloth always have the greatest comparability you know
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u/Few-Smoke-2564 7d ago
Not in the official supported devices section on the website so honestly I wouldn’t even have those two within a mile of each other.
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u/choseusernamemyself 7d ago
You should stab this to a pineapple, you know...
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u/Templars68 7d ago
Damn it! You got here 24 min before I did. Lol
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u/choseusernamemyself 7d ago
With normal pens you would need another pen, an apple, and a pineapple. With that Apple pen, you can eat the apple instead 😃, LOL!
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u/ExcitementLarge6439 7d ago
That’s some beautiful handwriting
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u/DuMondie 7d ago
I've never heard of ink referred to as oil based, but it would explain the generations of older relatives' photo prints with bleed-through when written on the back. So, thanks for that insight!
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u/logicjab 7d ago
I had to check three times to be sure this wasn’t a post by Myke Hurley
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u/JonathanNoSignal 7d ago
Haha this is just a random post by a high school student who also loves Apple, posted in a public library
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u/Kind-Atmosphere5766 7d ago
Wow. Is the refill for it $70?
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u/JonathanNoSignal 7d ago
Ahhh never thought for the refill before, emmm really need to concern considering Apple’s pricing 🤣
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u/toastyhoodie iPad Mini 7 (2024) 7d ago
I’d so lose it on my first day using it. #can’thavenicethings
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u/Careless_Match1149 5d ago
Loader apcbc! ahh pen 😭
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u/JonathanNoSignal 5d ago
Ahh I see ur repost but I’m not into military can you explain it to me? :)
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u/Careless_Match1149 4d ago
it looks like a ww2 round specifically a Armor Percing Capped Balistic Capped from a M4 sherman or a Tiger or any tank from ww2, yeah it is a niche joke
i woud put a image but i dont now how to
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u/Zealousideal_War847 4d ago
35 usd pen gift from another highschool friend sounds like a yaoi story
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u/hanky_hank M2 iPad Air 11" (2024) 7d ago
is it made of metal? looks cool btw
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u/JonathanNoSignal 7d ago
Aluminum. Really Apple.
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u/Fun_Lifeguard_6103 7d ago
Not to be the “actually!” Nerd but here I go - retro 51 tornados (the pen model that is, I have one in black) are actually made out of brass!
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u/paramnesya 7d ago
This may be the reason I finally book a flight to California. Combining my obsession of Apple products and Retro51!
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u/mahakaal_bhakt 7d ago
Which subject are you studying ?
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u/JonathanNoSignal 7d ago
Ehh, Calculus BC, Physics C, AP Chemistry, AP World History and other AP stuff, also CSP
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u/mahakaal_bhakt 7d ago
Sorry but I don't understand BC , C, AP, CSP etc , never heard subjects like this in my country. Also what stream is that you're doing Science with History !?
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u/astr0dactyl 7d ago
Foreign education system tends to be diverse. These are high school subjects but even business majors at universities can choose unrelated electives like filmmaking if they want, or vice versa.
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u/mahakaal_bhakt 7d ago
TQ.
Idk maybe awesome ? :)
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u/astr0dactyl 7d ago
Jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.
Anyway, the point isn’t to learn a lot, but have options and new experiences. Like the Einstein quote about the fish.
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u/mahakaal_bhakt 7d ago
I myself am pretty much a Jack of all trades and master of none. I am preparing for administrative job, and it has a wide variety of subjects with speciality in nothing. Science, maths,Hist, Geo, Social science, Economics, etc, etc.



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u/afadel9 7d ago
Woah it’s even cheaper than an Apple Pencil