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You won't be don't much with solidworks or autocad with the crappy intel 4000 graphics card nor will the battery last anywhere near the 10 hours of the iPad. Th

You won't be don't much with solidworks or autocad with the crappy intel 4000 graphics card nor will the battery last anywhere near the 10 hours of the iPad. The surface pro is stretch between a laptop and a tablet and ends up as a master of none EDIT:will we ever see any numbers from Microsoft or will we always be stuck with the amazon style multiplier?

wlesieutre 14y ago
The HD 4000's performance in AutoCAD is not far below common discrete cards. Keep in mind, the graph here is showing it against desktop cards, and it comes in slightly under the Radeon HD 7750. That's a $100 budget gaming card. For 2D CAD (still fairly common in architecture, I can't speak to other industries), the benchmark is almost identical across the board. So no, it can't match the performance of a GTX 680. And I doubt it handles complicated models very well. But it's by no means incapable of light CAD work, especially compared to laptops. http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/AutoDesk-AutoCAD-2013-GPU-Acceleration-164 http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/AutoDesk-AutoCAD-2...