Apparently I am one of them: keyboard folio, iPad and Apple Pencil. I just don’t have enough money to get 1TB model.
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iPad Air vs. Microsoft's Surface Go: Which Is a Better Laptop Replacement?
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Because the Surface go can be used as a LAPTOP so the trackpad is useful where as the iPad is only a tablet so no use for a trackpad.
With iPadOS pointing device support, trackpad becomes useful for iPad now.
As someone who has both, and switched from the iPad Pro to the Surface Go.. I'm hands down Surface Go. Battery life is crap, but its a real computer. When iPadOS comes out, maybe it'll change.....
There is no real mouse support in iOS 13, it only can be used as an input device. You wont have right click functionality with a menu for copy, cut paste or anything like that. It's only made for you to click something.
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The surface to was an ARM based tablet, Surface Go is x86, completely different. The Surface 2 is a better comparison to the iPad Air then the Surface GO really.
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BWHAHAHA. Are you serious? Have you even used one? I have had multiple iPads and have had a Surface RT, Surface Pro 3 and 4 and a Surface book. The Surface RT thats running a desktop OS in ARM is still working and just as fast as it was when i bought it, which I wont say was really fast but I could have IE open, Full Office Apps open and music playing with 2gb ram and it never lagged. As for the Pro's and the Books, I have never had a problem with them being slow or lagging. As for crashes. My Macbook pro I bought in 2015 crashes way more than any surface product I have bought.
I agree with you 100% but the comment I replied to said it was stupid to have a trackpad built into a keyboard cover and Apples keyboard cover was better for not having a trackpad.
Ahh ok. He has a stupid comment then. And by no means Apple keyboard folio is better aesthetically hands down.
I think it’s more likely that iPadOS and MacOS will eventually merge together. I know that they have said that won’t happen but they do what they want. To be honest, I don’t use my MacBook Pro as often I did before iOS got better multitasking support.
iPad os really doesnt change ANYTHING. it's still iOS with a few large tablet productive features added that should have been put in a long time ago
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Not at all. I had an i5 4gb Surface Pro 4 and it never got bogged down by the OS. Microsoft has optimized Windows 10 like crazy. It will run on a 2gb ram Arm Processor now without the OS slowing down
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That's not really a fight between the products, thats a fight between Apple having a crazy insane closed system and Microsoft having a normal open system.
The Surface Go runs a WHOLE lot better than commenters said it would. It rarely slows down, and there's no fan. I'm thoroughly impressed with how well the Surface Go functions as a basic work laptop. It docks to my 2x 24" monitors at full resolution, and run 10+ office and other apps simultaneously without complaining. Windows 10 is getting better, have 1905 now.
but should be mentioned in the same breath as the Pad Air, it might not have had the best specs and apps but it alone still blows any iPad out of the water as a laptop replacement. I have the original Surface RT and still use it. It replaced my laptop for 4 months while saving money to get a Surface Pro 3 when my laptop died.
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but you still arent getting mouse support like you are thinking, its only really to be used as an input method like the stylus. It wont have a contextual menu with copy, cut paste etc. all you can really do is click.Yes
I have both and use them both packed together in a small leather bag. The iPad is used mostly as a tablet and the Go as a small laptop for system support and maintenance.It's iPad is a blown up iPod with the same limitations while the Surface Go is a shrunken laptop but with the same versatility. Neither would be my first choice but if I was forced to choose one I'd take versatility over blown up limitations. It's more difficult. The Surface Go is the superior (albeit slow) laptop replacement.Thank you.
you missed my point, the iPad is only a tablet and doesnt need one, the Surface Go can actually replace your laptop, thus it needs to have trackpad built in.
it depend on user choice.. unless we got new macbook air cum touchable screen and it will be no brainer.We all here don't yet know what future ipad os will be tell to us.
Imagine that, Apple users prefer Apple products, because they're Apple products?
That's not completely true .Look at this forum about Surface devices and you will see a lot of Apple users not happy with apple products
Yes, well.... 90% of posts on this forum are negative about Apple. Reviewers of Apple products by Apple users are as predictable as the high number of forum members complaining that Apple products are too expensive.
why are we excluding the Surface pro? The Go will get a performance boost soon asd I pad
enthusiasts will continue to defend the awful smart cover. MS won the war when they introduced
the kickstand
I never once questioned the use of the trackpad. I know Surface tablets have mouse and trackpad functionality. I’m simply questioning the design choice around the trackpad. If you reread my original post, I am talking about the space where batteries are usually housed within the chassis of a tradition laptop design, which is not the case with tablet connected keyboards.
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It looks like you give iPad and iOS way too much credit and think iOS is invincible. iOS is not invincible otherwise jailbreak won’t even exist. And guess what? iOS has probably just as many critical security vulnerabilities as windows or macOS or even pristine Linux system.
I've read and reread your original post over and over again. The Surface Go is being pushed as a laptop replacement, hence the trackpad, the Air isnt, hence no trackpad. But Apple doesn't even make since in this regard because it states the iPad Pro as a laptop replacement and yet still does not have a trackpad. The Surface Go isn't a tablet, the Air is. The Surface is a laptop in a tablet form factor hence trackpad.
If you go and search surface go image, you will immediately notice the huge gap between keyboard and the surface (typically office desk). I think that is the weird/bad design choice he is talking about, and I am inclined to agree.
are you talking about how the keyboard is angled instead of laying flat? Thats done on purpose to make it feel more like a laptop keyboard and to provide support. When they made the keyboard that way when it was introduced with the surface pro 3 they made a whole mention of it. it can still lay flat if you want it to though.
That would be nice. It’s getting really close to being the perfect computer for a lot of people. I think within 5 years there will be a lot of people buying iPad pros and not MacBook pros. It’s already starting to happen.