The Surface Pro 2 update is interesting and impressive. However, it seems the performance went from bad to OK. Far more impressive, to me, was the performance o

The Surface Pro 2 update is interesting and impressive. However, it seems the performance went from bad to OK. Far more impressive, to me, was the performance of the Sony Vaio Pro (from the article). It is seriously stunning[1]. I mean, it normalizes to the macbook air 2013 performance. To top it, it is 1080p touch compared to 1440x900 without touch for macbook air! How did they manage that? Recently, lot of flak was given to Microsoft for not being able to optimize battery life[2]. Lot of the criticism seems unwarranted. As usual, the PC manufacturers need to get their act together and work with Microsoft to deliver. For far too long, they have been cruising along. Now with Dell going private and building kick-ass laptops (XPS 15, m3800 - jury still out) as well, looks like it is going to be an interesting next few years for the windows ecosystem. [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/7417/sony-vaio-pro-13-exceptionally-portable/4 http://www.anandtech.com/show/7417/sony-vaio-pro-13-exceptio... [2] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/10/why-does-windows-have-terrible-battery-life.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/10/why-does-windows-ha...