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Microsoft's offerings still seem under-designed to me, on a second look. I still can't order Surface Pro (or Surface Book) with cellular modem; only Surface 3,
by listic 11y ago
Microsoft's offerings still seem under-designed to me, on a second look. I still can't order Surface Pro (or Surface Book) with cellular modem; only Surface 3, an older and supposedly lower end device. I can't order Surface Book with 1TB drive, only a Surface Pro 4; despite the former being a more expensive and supposedly higher end device.
Why so? As far as I understand, Microsoft still goes with the templates their hardware OEMs already have: Surface is based on a tablet template, while Surface Pro and Surface Book are supposedly based on different laptop templates and the available options are thus defined by the OEMs. This also explains why the 'Pro' versions 1 and 2 had cameras inferior to the 'non-Pro' versions.
I wish Microsoft got their act together and gave more attention to design, while they are at it. If they are saying this is a tablet that can replace my computer, let it have what those tablets that can't have: cellular module. If it has a non-removable hard drive, let me have it in the greatest available capacity, sepecially while you already offer that on a lower-priced model.
- pmelendez 11y ago" I still can't order Surface Pro (or Surface Book) with cellular modem; only Surface 3", Can you order a Macbook Air with cellular modem? because that has always been the range they designed the SP for.
- listic 11y ago1. No you can't, but I have always wondered why. 2. They might, but they say it's a tablet, and it looks like a tablet, and it has touch screen. Tablets (often) have cellular.
- gtk40 11y ago> I can't order Surface Book with 1TB drive Surface Book storage options listed as: "Solid state drive (SSD) options: 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB." http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/devices/surface-book#techspec-block http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/devices/surface-book#... Is this just something not available right away, or do you not want a solid state? I am confused.
- listic 11y agoYou're right, I didn't notice that it's going to be available; just not right now.
- zmonkeyz 11y agoI read the other day that the new LG watch will have a built-in LTE modem. There really is no excuse for them not having one in the laptop.