The surface go is a glorified netbook in my eyes. Even if I wanted to get a windows laptop, that’s amongst the last in my list. Top of the list would be the surface book for me.
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Microsoft Shares Holiday Ad Promoting Surface Go Over Apple's iPad: 'Big Dreams Need a Real Computer'
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So what is a 'real' computer? Something with at least an i5? Something that doesn't throttle? Something that is only powered by more than a 5W CPU? Oh well, bad news... if it's so, the Macbook is neither a computer. Or are you telling me that just because of the touchscreen it isn't a computer anymore?
You guys are kinda hilarious
Really? The remote control for my Denon receiver is a computer with a touchscreen so it should be in the same market as an iPad right?
We all have a good idea what the general public accept as a computer. The iPad is a computing device, it computes but so does my Nest thermostat. Is it a computer in the traditional sense? No.
The Surface probably is.
Real computers allow users to have full control of the software and the hardware. Users should be the owner of the device, not a just a guest to use it. In my opinion, even a Raspberry Pi is a real computer. But iOS devices are NOT.
Is it really so important what constitutes a traditional computer and what doesn’t?
Azure itself is platform-agnostic. No one cares what it’s running in the background.
Apparently not for you - as it helps driving the iPad Pro marketing tank through noob street
(while orphaning the Mac lineup with flawed processor choices, inadequate RAM/SDD configs, an underdimensioned MBA not to pale out MB/MBP, a Pro machine in a consumer casing, a Mini without a screen etc.)
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Personally, I think so. Yes.
If not big companies marketing departments can pull the wool over our eyes too easily.
It heats food but you wouldn’t really call a microwave oven a cooker would you?
Or call it a handmixer - there certainly will be people using it that way because you can
I like to see them as problems to be solved. Or tasks to be done.
When I get a microwave oven, it’s not because I want a microwave oven per se, but because I have food that needs heating quickly. So by that logic, if there is another product which can accomplish the same goal, then there is no reason not to acknowledge this, regardless of what it is called.
I use my microwave oven to boil water in a pinch. It’s no kettle, but can be used to accomplish the same end depending on the circumstance.
Current desktop computing paradigms are all about accomplishing more with more. iOS apps tend to be lighter, and that to me can actually be a bonus under the right circumstances, because it means that I am not being saddled with excess bloat that I don’t need.
Compare the cost of a full Wacom setup vs an iPad with Apple Pencil. Or the cost of affinity ($20) vs photoshop (monthly subscription). Yet in the right hands, the iPad is a far more versatile tool not despite its limitations, but because of them.
What I like about the iPad is its propensity towards computing made simplified and more accessible. To put it crudely, I don’t need my iPad to develop iOS apps because that’s the developer’s job, and that’s what the Mac is for.
And I genuinely believe that Apple is the company who can deliver on this utopian computing vision, simply because they are one of the few companies to understand the concept that sometimes, less truly is more.
Perhaps you are all right. The iPad is no computer. It is clearly something so much more (and less).
It seems that a ton of traditional PC users on here are either jealous of or enviable of the iPad. That's ultimately is a great thing for the platform as it will help adoption over time. There is no doubt that everyone can recognize that the hardware is as good as it gets, the software obviously needs to be improved, but it's pretty obvious that many would love use an iPad exclusively. Apple should take that as a push to rapidly improve the platform. Commercials like this just prove that Apple's approach is the right one.
I have both my iPad mini 2 and my hp envy Pc. Sometimes one does something’s better than the other.
Which could be said about all areas regardless of IT or not. Good luck getting a graphic design departs to hop on to Windows just like good like getting a SQL Server DBA to hop on to MacOS.
There are still lots of legacy applications that are not going to fly with MacOS and even current ones. Many do not want to hop on to a VM constantly. I mean heck there are Apple users at home that have to do this to run a decent version of Quicken let alone a long list of things they could end up needing at work.
My post isn't even a Mac vs PC thing. Someone stated Windows 10 was unreliable junk and I simply pointed out how ridiculous that is.
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I don't see these as mentioning any product specifically. It's a generic user of typical PC's at the time, whether it be HP, Lenovo, whatever.
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'or compares their products to anyone'. You conveniently left that out. I see lots of examples of that in the ads.
Well seeing as how the iPad doesn't support mouse and keyboard, let alone mouse, keyboard, G13, Logitech Gaming software, or a 1080 Ti... Nice try though.
Yea, I just don't consider it the same as the recent Samsung ads or these. Apple wasn't mentioning or showing competitors products by name. I feel it's a different approach, but ultimately it makes no difference to me and I am fine with you seeing otherwise.
So you used your iPad to Remote Desktop into a real computer to get work done? Do you not see the irony there?
With my Surface Pro I can pop it open, do work with local files and they sync when there is a network available with OneDrive. And do all that stuff right from my device. I can also RDP back to my Windows machine or network too. It's a much better work device than any iPad.