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As someone who sold their Surface Book Recently...Microsoft said a whole lot of words to make a truly awful hinge with a very compromised design while this make
by agloe_dreams 3y ago
As someone who sold their Surface Book Recently...Microsoft said a whole lot of words to make a truly awful hinge with a very compromised design while this makes complete sense here.
The outcome of the hinge int he SB was that the product couldn't fold flat. Part of the reason for the hinge was that allowed less wobble due to their heavy 'clipboard' tablet half, which was caused by a want to have a detached mode. The cost of detaching was massive to the whole product, not only was the hinge bulky and heavy, it also meant the system had to manage multiple batteries and force the CPU to throttle aggressively due to a lack of cooling in the thin frame. Power would need to flow between halves but ultimately the top half needed to charge more often than the bottom as the bottom half could not directly power the CPU, this meant being on power still discharged the battery. Simply put, the choice ruined the product unless you had that specific need; especially when those batteries started to wear. Did I mention that the clipboard had less than 2 hours of battery life? It's no Galaxy Chromebook, but it was a sadly compromised design. I sincerely hope they rethink the surface laptop studio as well. What they really need is to just make a thick Surface Pro that can just do it all.
- lmm 3y agoI've been very happy with my Surface Book, but the batteries are indeed wearing down (after a respectable 5 and a half years; FWIW the detached tablet was advertised as 4 hours of battery and lived up to that when new, IME). What's your issue with the Surface Laptop Studio design? I definitely wouldn't replace my laptop with something without a proper keyboard if that's what you're suggesting.
- agloe_dreams 3y agoI had a SB2 15 inch core i7, so maybe a little extreme, but the tablet alone generally performed poorly in battery and Microsoft was always a little optimistic on battery estimates. The hinge on the studio is a little fragile but also damages the keyboard deck (not the keys themselves) over time unless you are super careful. They also continued compromised choices in favor of the design over the use, the cpu is actually very poor for its class and they seemingly have no interest in updating it. I just wish they would just decide to build a dedicated GPU Surface laptop or a Dedicated GPU Surface Pro rather than halfway steps.
- lmm 3y ago> I had a SB2 15 inch core i7, so maybe a little extreme, but the tablet alone generally performed poorly in battery and Microsoft was always a little optimistic on battery estimates. That's the same model I have. The things I do with it in tablet mode are pretty lightweight (PDF worksheets and reading Kindle), but I found the battery life lived up at least for the first few years, shrug.
- adolph 3y agoYeah, the writing for that hinge was on the wall when they didn't retain the design. Maybe it was the wrong system in which to implement it, or maybe it was just bad execution. The work folks are doing in the foldable LCD space show that there is lots of work left to do in optimizing the humble hinge. Caveat emptor before v3.5.