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Surface 4 will not be too good though if the rumors that it'll run on M processor are true.
by romanovcode 11y ago
Surface 4 will not be too good though if the rumors that it'll run on M processor are true.
- soapdog 11y agoI have a surface 3, its an atom 7x cpu. I was really worried but for my coffee house workflow of editing html/css/js files, doing lots of email and videoconferencing its great. It all depends on how you approach it. I approach mine as a tablet that can do so much more. These days I mostly leave the macbook air home but then again my load is not cpu heavy. I can see some workloads where the M based processor will be a bad choice...
- joshuapants 11y agoI disagree. There are already issues with heat and power consumption in the Surface Pro 3 especially with the higher end processors. What's the point of a powerful and power-hungry processor if it's just going to throttle hard when you really try to use it? If you need a ton of power, you need a workstation not an ultrabook/tablet hybrid. The rumored changes should allow for better battery life, cooler operation, and probably a minimal (if any) impact on performance on tasks that suit the form factor.
- PhantomGremlin 11y agoWhat's the point of a powerful and power-hungry processor I strongly agree. The same amounts to laptops, at least for me. I have a Macbook Pro, 13", 2.9 GHz Core i7, non-retina. About 99% of the time my laptop is less than 10% utilized. Even when I run VMware/Windows it barely breaks a sweat. I got the i7 because it was only $100 more once I got the model with 8 GB RAM. Wasted money. Phones, laptops, tablets --> same thing. Mostly used to consume content, probably less than 10% of users need a high end processor. As you say, better battery life and cooler operation are the things that should be optimized for, especially with phones and tablets. I concede that a decent minority of users can make a good argument for owning a powerful laptop.