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I was about to buy a Pro 2, might hold off on one of these. For taking notes and digital art/illustration, these devices are amazing and I've been using my fri

I was about to buy a Pro 2, might hold off on one of these. For taking notes and digital art/illustration, these devices are amazing and I've been using my friends one a lot.

stinos 12y ago
Came here to say pretty much this as well - since the Surface came out I was interested in it especially after trying it out with the pen + OneNote; being able to have one device that does the tablet stuff like touch/pen/note taking and the C++/C#/Virtualbox cross-platform development stuff sounds like a dream to me (which makes me guess I'm probably in the target group for the device). Expecting MS to come with an update I was waiting a bit though and the Pro 2 came close already, but mainly due to coincidences I haven't gotten around to get one. Plus the specs were still not on par with my current laptop's it seems. Now this Pro 3 however: extremely tempting. While at the same time makes me wonder if I should wait another couple of months for yet another, faster update :]
- MetaCosm 12y ago
  It is really excellent if you will actually use the pen. I love pen input (I have a Note III and a Surface 2). I love using Hyper-V -- which seems much faster than VirtualBox (on Windows). I went through like 7 devices prior to sticking with this one -- Macbook Air and Pro, Asus Transformer, X301, Pixel ... and others. None of them had all the things I wanted in one place... the Surface 2 is just about a perfect fit for me. I doodle on it (pressure sensitive pen is AWESOME), I take hand written notes, I run Ubuntu and CentOS in Hyper-V for work stuff, I run Visual Studio, I play League of Legends (1080p mid-low settings) and it is just my go-to device when I am not on my desktop. I purchased it on a complete lark -- just to have one, and it is quickly become my go to device when traveling. It is a machine of compromises... it has a "good" screen, it has "good" battery life, it has "good" performance, it has "good" pen input, it has a "good" weight. Not exceptional in any category, but if you want something that places in all of them -- it is perfect.

I was about to buy a Pro 2, might hold off on one of these. For taking notes and digital art/illustration, these devices are amazing and I've been using my friends one a lot.

stinos 12y ago

Came here to say pretty much this as well - since the Surface came out I was interested in it especially after trying it out with the pen + OneNote; being able to have one device that does the tablet stuff like touch/pen/note taking and the C++/C#/Virtualbox cross-platform development stuff sounds like a dream to me (which makes me guess I'm probably in the target group for the device). Expecting MS to come with an update I was waiting a bit though and the Pro 2 came close already, but mainly due to coincidences I haven't gotten around to get one. Plus the specs were still not on par with my current laptop's it seems. Now this Pro 3 however: extremely tempting. While at the same time makes me wonder if I should wait another couple of months for yet another, faster update :]

MetaCosm 12y ago
It is really excellent if you will actually use the pen. I love pen input (I have a Note III and a Surface 2). I love using Hyper-V -- which seems much faster than VirtualBox (on Windows). I went through like 7 devices prior to sticking with this one -- Macbook Air and Pro, Asus Transformer, X301, Pixel ... and others. None of them had all the things I wanted in one place... the Surface 2 is just about a perfect fit for me. I doodle on it (pressure sensitive pen is AWESOME), I take hand written notes, I run Ubuntu and CentOS in Hyper-V for work stuff, I run Visual Studio, I play League of Legends (1080p mid-low settings) and it is just my go-to device when I am not on my desktop. I purchased it on a complete lark -- just to have one, and it is quickly become my go to device when traveling. It is a machine of compromises... it has a "good" screen, it has "good" battery life, it has "good" performance, it has "good" pen input, it has a "good" weight. Not exceptional in any category, but if you want something that places in all of them -- it is perfect.