I have the SP4 and its been great, not sure what problems your talking about. I gave it to my wife to use for her work a couple months ago and she loves it too. Your issues must be "user error."
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Microsoft Takes on Apple's Entry-Level iPad With 10-inch 'Surface Go' Starting at $399
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It's great that MS has stuck to its guns with the Surface series, and has improved it with every iteration. I use my Surface Pro more than all the other machines nowadays, as it is such a versatile product.
Despite being a big Surface Pro line fan, I'm pretty disappointed with this latest effort by Microsoft. The base price point is right up there with the better 2-in-1 Chromebooks, until you realize that it cuts too many corners. Battery life and CPU power, plus the eMMC for the 64Gb version mean that really the entry-level machine is the $549 8Gb/128Gb SSD, plus $99 for the keyboard = $650. That's a far cry from the $399, and it still doesn't fix the battery.
Despite being a big Surface Pro line fan, I'm pretty disappointed with this latest effort by Microsoft. The base price point is right up there with the better 2-in-1 Chromebooks, until you realize that it cuts too many corners. Battery life and CPU power, plus the eMMC for the 64Gb version mean that really the entry-level machine is the $549 8Gb/128Gb SSD, plus $99 for the keyboard = $650. That's a far cry from the $399, and it still doesn't fix the battery.
Agreed, I would certainly try it first. However, I think the CPU is plenty for kind of things this is going to be used for, which is primarily running a web browser, looking at photos, MS office, etc.
Just the Kindle app alone would make my original 12.9 iPP worth the investment, especially for non-fiction books/note taking. I also digitized most of my studio art books (image-heavy) this past year and wow--what a delight it is to read those on the iPad.
Which means for me, with a Surface Go or any other tablet, the quality of the display is going to be my starting point.
The last few updates I ran on my Windows desktop and Surface Pro 3 have gone without a hitch. When I upgraded my 2013 Mac Pro to High Sierra, the install hung and left me with a partially working system. I had to restore from backup and try again. It worked the second time, but still...
I've been using Windows 10 side by side with macOS for a few years now and while there are still things I prefer about macOS (native UNIX terminal, iTerm2, Messages, Finder), Windows 10 has not been so bad. I prefer macOS's interface (to me, Finder > Explorer), but much of the hate I've seen thrown at Windows 10 either doesn't seem to affect me, or is simply just blind hatred similar to what I've seen Windows users have against macOS in the past.
YMMV I suppose.
Look at it this way. You can attach this to a cheap usb-c docking station connected to a 27” screen and a mouse/keyboard and you have a complete workplace running full windows 10 (free option to disable S-mode is included).
For most office workers, the performance of this will be more than enough plus you can give your employees a sleek looking device all for just 399.
I have an SP3 and its also been great. I wish it had more RAM, so I've been thinking about upgrading. I'm having trouble deciding between a future SP or a SB. I wish Microsoft would create a Surface Pro that could attach to a Surface Book keyboard with discrete GPU. I would throw whatever amount of money (within reason, of course) that they'd want for that.
I think I've only ever had one issue with the SP3 and that was when I ran an especially buggy preview version of Windows 10 on it. Restored from backup and all was good again.
Let me explain: we use them at work, business use, 2000 pieces! It went berzerk: our tech department ran out of stock, Microsoft in our country ran out of stock. I think it works fine when using at home, not for business use or to carry around. Just picked up a 'new' one, but the keys just broke of. That is with the first generation keyboard. Second gen keyboard ran out of stock. I presume you have a second or third gen keyboard: there is some space between the keys, those are fine.
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Just Google "Apple Macbook ARM", ton of stories. Apple A -chips are faster and more low-power than for example Intel x86 5th gen. U-chips. Another thing is that Apple doesn't have to be on Intel's leash.
Pentium is faster than the latest Celeron N4200 and you can do even light productivity work with Celeron.
It takes < 2 minutes for a Windows S to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, and it's basically a couple of clicks away, on a Windows Surface Laptop. I suspect the process will be very similar on the Surface Go, to upgrade to Windows 10 Home.
You don't mention who made your "office PC", and whether its running an out of box Microsoft build, or some kludge that your IT department put on it. I have had a Surface Pro for a year and had no such issues, nor have I had anything similar on my company issued Dell laptop. I can say that over the last 10 years I've had no more or less problems with my Macs vs. Windows machines. And as for "it takes too much time", then you aren't taking the time to learn how to do things in Windows.
Almost, but not quite there for me it would run close to Surface Pro sale prices once you spec it out and get accessories.
If I was going to get a Surface mobile product it would probably be the Surface Book considering the prices when you spec and add accessories.
I am happy to see Microsoft trying though (I would be all over a Surface Studio 2). For my budget and mobile need though after I get rid of the 12.9” iPP, I will probably pick up an entry iPP 10.5”. I’ve got an extra new Apple Pencil and won’t bother with AC this time, so that is that. I have made peace with this as I have much bigger fish to fry.
As far as Windows, I will just run that Acer 2017 laptop as my primary school machine and learn W10 that way. I cannot commute with it, but I am not allowed to use work WiFi anyway so no big deal. I try so hard to leave Apple, but I’ll will leave when I am ready, not necessarily when I want to.
If I was going to get a Surface mobile product it would probably be the Surface Book considering the prices when you spec and add accessories.
I am happy to see Microsoft trying though (I would be all over a Surface Studio 2). For my budget and mobile need though after I get rid of the 12.9” iPP, I will probably pick up an entry iPP 10.5”. I’ve got an extra new Apple Pencil and won’t bother with AC this time, so that is that. I have made peace with this as I have much bigger fish to fry.
As far as Windows, I will just run that Acer 2017 laptop as my primary school machine and learn W10 that way. I cannot commute with it, but I am not allowed to use work WiFi anyway so no big deal. I try so hard to leave Apple, but I’ll will leave when I am ready, not necessarily when I want to.
I've considered using just an iPhone X Plus once it comes out. I'll need to make a better assessment once I experience the screen size, but I have a feeling I'll miss my iPad Pro screen. I could do it though and it would be kind of nice to have just one device.
I don't like the design, well I also don't like windows or Microsoft for that matter but if you at the video at 25 seconds that look like it can easily break, no thank you I'll pass, this is just like android tablets you can put the price at 100 dollars and I won't buy one, simply because I don't like the product
I would suggest that to upgrade to full windows, one would need the 8/128 system to have any real chance of a fully functioning Windows 10. Otherwise, stuck with Windows S.
I'm sure that S stands for Sucks
Windows S = Windows Sucks
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The pentium chip in this surface is very similar to the chip in the current retina Macbook, just running at lower peak clock speeds so performance should be more than fine for basic computing tasks.
It could be for my work...on the go tech. Though possibly lacking on the rugged side.
i'm not talking about issues from updating. i'm talking about simple scenarios that Microsoft could have avoided. Example: I've had windows update restart my computer while I was playing a round of Overwatch. It's not hard to check to see if a user is currently using the system to avoid any sort of reboots.
I've seen Twitch streamers streaming to 500 viewers and then encounter a Windows Update that rebooted their computer in the middle of a live stream.
macOS handles it fine. yes it constantly pops up a notification asking you to update, but I've never had macOS restart in the middle of something.
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i've had windows reboot my computer in the middle of games and important work. this has been going on since Windows XP.
Where are you seeing the poor performance? It looks speedy in the video. I’m sure everyone here would like to know too.
Let’s be honest, you’re just trolling cause “Another cheap windows laptop” has less than half the resolution without pen support.
It’s superior to the original iPad in one way and that’s it’s got a laminated display. I do love the Surface lineup and if they come out with a 120hz refresh rate tablet with 10 hour battery life I would give it a serious consideration.