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I've been using Surface Book 2 as a work laptop and at this point I won't buy a single Microsoft's hardware beyond an Xbox. It was utterly bad. Lack of thunderb
by atraac 4y ago
I've been using Surface Book 2 as a work laptop and at this point I won't buy a single Microsoft's hardware beyond an Xbox. It was utterly bad. Lack of thunderbolt so USB-C docks won't fully work, lack of HDMI ports, insane thermal throttling, had issues handling 1000hz polling rate mouses(seriously), quite often laptop would just not turn on until specific reset combination of keys was pressed, general performance issues with time. Whole thing was also very fragile and scratched very easily. And the worst part - power button sticks out so much it was randomly turning on in my laptop bag or backpack, quite often heating really badly and discharging to death. I would come to work almost every day without power. Never again.
- tluyben2 4y agoSimilar experience. And MS accusing me I dropped it and refusing warranty. I did not drop it; it was broken out of the shop. It never worked well even after I paid for fixing (they just sent a new one). Would be nice if it worked but maybe they should learn something about customer experience and hardware quality from other vendors.
- iasay 4y agoSimilar experience here. Just shipped 20 off to a recycler. They didn’t even get to a year old. Replaced with thinkpad L series which suck but at least they actually work.
- madjam002 4y agoI agree, generally terrible performance all around and poor build quality for the price (almost £3,500 fully specced out). I installed Linux on it recently thanks to the linux-surface project which improved the experience quite a bit as I don’t have to deal with Windows 11 shit anymore, but the performance is still dreadful. You know it’s bad when after 30 mins of it being on it’s slower and laggier than a £500 laptop. Will never by a Surface product again, easily one of the worst purchasing decisions I have made.
- Lucasoato 4y agoSimilar experience, with a Surface Pro 4 many years ago. After one year it bricked but thanks god I still had the warranty and they sent another one... Am I asking too much? I want a tablet with high precision drawing and low-latency to take notes about everything. Add an ARM processor and I'd buy it today, damn it.
- Moosdijk 4y agoYou want an ipad it seems like.
- MonkeyClub 4y agoFor me the iPad feels too constricting when you want to do anything other than consume content. But I think that's just because I'm accustomed to having direct access to files and filesystems, and the extra later of abstraction (already necessary to visually translate a filesystem) just becomes bothersome. E.g. I still need to cd and ls in a very primitive and visceral way, feel my way around the warren like a mole so to speak, even if I can just click/tap on a screen or C-x C-f. Probably how the mind gets wired with basic text UIs like the DOS and Unix command lines, before you get to stuff like Midnight Commander. Pretty weird, if you ask me, as that's more of a verbal and less than a visual way of interacting with the system, while I'm an otherwise visual person.
- mark_l_watson 4y agoI have 2 iPad Pros, both sizes, two Linux laptops, and a Lenovo Duet Chromebook with Linux containers. Lots of experimenting with hardware choices. When traveling with an iPad (sometimes I take the Chromebook) I find using a SSH or Mosh client app with a remote server works very well. Your mileage may vary.
- nicbou 4y agoIt's great for reading, sketching and taking notes. It's not a development machine, though some people try really hard to make it so. I never found a good solution, so I pack my iPad Mini and my Macbook. I just need stronger legs.
- emilfihlman 4y agoThese have been issues ever since Surface Pro 3, I don't understand what kind of user testing they do if they can't catch and fix them.
- Tomte 4y agoXbox and IntelliMouse (Pro).
- snarfy 4y agoThe surface laptops are decent, but the rest of the line are not worth the premium.