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I tried a friend's Surface the other day and got blown away by how smoothly everything ran and how quick Edge was compared to Safari. No hang-ups, no "This appl
by kunai 11y ago
I tried a friend's Surface the other day and got blown away by how smoothly everything ran and how quick Edge was compared to Safari. No hang-ups, no "This application was forced to quit," no opening iTerm and having to kill a process by hand, better memory management, and pretty decent battery life. Of course, the trackpad and keyboard were still not as good as the ones on the MBP; there's some weird Apple magic going on there and while OEMs are catching up I wonder how much longer it'll take to actually match the performance of Apple's input devices.
It's amazing how the tables have turned; I can't imagine myself saying anything like this 5-6 years ago.
- bryanlarsen 11y agoThe proper comparison for the Surface keyboard would be the awful keyboard on the MacBook, not the nice ones that they have on their other models.
- Bud 11y agoWhy is that "proper"? The Surface doesn't come close to the portability of the MacBook. The proper comparison is to Apple's mainstream models.
- basch 11y agoWhat type of places are you going that a surface book doesnt fit into but a macbook does? Are the openings really that small?
- Bud 11y agoSurface Book weight: 3.34 lb (in its lightest config without GPU) MacBook weight: 2.03 lb Not even remotely the same category.
- bryanlarsen 11y agoThe Surface Pro 4 is 1.7 lb.
- Bud 11y agoYes, with no keyboard, and without the heavy power supply you will need to carry to actually use it for any real work. Not a valid comparison, again. My point stands: the best comparison is to Apple's mainstream laptops such as the MacBook Air, not to an ultralight.
- basch 11y agobut what situation will you find yourself in that you need a laptop that weighs 2lb instead of 3.3lb? i just find it hard to believe that the extra lb will prevent you from getting any work done, or prevent you from fitting your laptop somewhere.
- bryanlarsen 11y agoThe Surface Pro 4 is 0.3 lbs lighter than the MacBook. How is that less portable?
- jerf 11y agoI recently put Windows 10 on a now six-year-old laptop with i3 in it. It's surprisingly snappy, definitely more pleasant to use than the Windows 7 that was on it. This is not usually what happens when you put the latest Windows on hardware old enough to have shipped with Windows three major versions back. Apple better watch itself, Microsoft seems to be caring a lot more about the little things. (This message is just about the OS; yes, yes, privacy etc., and there's still yet more stuff yet to fix up like battery life, etc. I only game in Windows so honestly I don't much worry about it. I'm just saying, it's much slicker than I've ever seen Windows be even on new hardware, let alone 6-year-old hardware.)
- basch 11y ago"the trackpad and keyboard were still not as good as the ones on the MBP" did you touch a Surface Book?
- kunai 11y agoNope, this was an SP3 with the newer type cover IIRC. Haven't had the chance to see an SB in person yet, but I've heard good things about it.