I've used both for extensive periods and even with the rm2's low storage, I vastly prefer it. The Elipsa's hand-writing experience was just awful - not just lag

I've used both for extensive periods and even with the rm2's low storage, I vastly prefer it. The Elipsa's hand-writing experience was just awful - not just laggy but non-deterministically so, their sync/export was clunky, their updates were sometimes buggy (e.g. the recent addition of GDrive import and broken export, the works-now-won't-work-again Overdrive and Pocket integration), and the ad-ridden home page. By contrast, the rm2 is heavenly and it just works well - I was never the journaling type but the rm2 manages to extract a lot of writing out of me daily because of how awesome it is. Re. the rm2 pricing, I believe it has gotten a lot cheaper since its release - 400+usd vs 300usd now, afaik; I use an aftermarket pen with it (staedtler noris jumbo). I use the rm2 for work and for personal stuff and I love it; the elipsa sits idle and powered off.