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A couple of Tom's Hardware articles about rumors and what not. I'm not sure of these were posted previously, my apologies if they had
Surface Pro 8 rumors
Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 launch tipped for next week — with AMD and Intel chips
Surface Pro 8 rumors
Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 launch tipped for next week — with AMD and Intel chips
Supposedly, the surface pro "8" that was leaked on ebay was actually the 7 that was released not long ago, and the real 8 is going to be in the Pro X form factor. I will take one of those with LTE please.
AFAIK, that's what it is going to be. As long as they offer an LTE version I can see myself with one as well.
Yea I can see that, a lot of people are probably waiting for the Pro X design in the Pro 8, mainly due to the processor. The Intel version is faster I believe than the ARM chip inside the Pro X.
I do wonder tho if that means a price hike? The Pro X is more expensive than the Pro 7.
I am moving my son and I to Samsung galaxy tab s6 lites for the time being. I had enough of iOS hogging storage space on his iPad and causing issues. The move will be welcome for me too. IPad is not exciting anymore. It's boring. The surface x and android tablets make using tablet fun and interesting again.
I wonder how it will compare application wise?
Do they have the same volumes as IOS?
I sooooooo want to purchase a surface Go!
i do not need one, i just want to merge that with the Dell XPS
the iPad is very useful and has all my comics installed and ready to edit in a iosx only app.
but i just want a friend for the Dell!
i do not need one, i just want to merge that with the Dell XPS
the iPad is very useful and has all my comics installed and ready to edit in a iosx only app.
but i just want a friend for the Dell!
The android tablet has EVERYTHING the iPad has besides imessage. The surface is running win10 and will have x64 emulation very soon so you have the windows software catalog. I went looking today on my samsung galaxy tab a8.0 for apps to compare. There is a full nickelodeon game catalog on android, where as on iOS they sunset their apps regularly. So there are 1/4 of the games available on iOS. that's just the beginning of the differences. Not all accessories work with iOS. I have an elm324 scanner for my vehicle, on iOS this does not connect, on my galaxy no issue. I have a gps module to save battery when off power navigating. The iPad does not connect to this, my galaxy tablet, no issue either. Even my dell 2 in 1 connects to both.
Enjoy the journey. I have a basic Galaxy Tab A and a basic 2020 iPad and use both. I am not an app person so can't compare that aspect of the two systems. But I enjoy the Tab A.
Interested in hearing how you get along.
I had the Surface Pro 6, I ended up selling it and then regretted selling it.
That being said the iPad is a great tablet. The Surface Pro does some things better (like having a kickstand is awesome).
I had the high spec surface 3 (non pro). it was the perfect size, did all my tablety stuff without issue, and did all of my basic computing. I would try to do my work editing videos etc on it. But for basic stuff it was awesome. I regret selling mine too. @Expos of 1969. I am sure I will be fine. I use my tab a 8 way more than my iPad. I am guessing the S6 lite will be a great tablet. As I mentioned before. I am bored with iOS. It's basically the same as it was since it's start. Static Icons on a springboard so that it makes moving apps etc difficult compared to android. Previously android was slow and laggy, but since 9, it's been fast, stable and a pleasure to use again. I have no issue with android anymore. The hardware, even mid range is more inspiring to pick up than iphone, and the OS is just as smooth with way better features and uses.
When you visit a website with Edge (Chromium) and Google Chrome (not sure about other browsers) you can often see this icon/option below with the + and the 3 modular blocks in the address bar.
It's a Web-App.
For modern websites you won't notice the difference between Apps and Web-Apps.
Also no more App updates required or develop different OS versions afaik.
It's a lot cheaper to develop/maintain, covers most uses cases and most customers wouldn't know the difference, would it not be for the current different way to "install".
Exactly. I use web apps on my windows devices all the time. It's great. You do not know the difference in them and a "real" app. If MS just had this function with windows mobile and edge, it would have been boondockers for me.
The appeal of the Surface Pro is the kickstand and the fact that it can be used with touch, keyboard and pen. The only reason I sold my Pro 6 was because I had issues with my iPad Pro at the time and Apple wanted to charge me £500 to fix it. I wasn’t happy with that so I brought the Pro 6 on sale (around Black Friday time), I was still speaking with Apple at the time who then decided to send me out a new iPad Pro (after I had sent them the one that had touch issues).
In the end I didn’t need both the Pro 6 and the iPad Pro, but I kept the iPad because I find it to be a much better tablet. However the Surface is better for work related things. But already having a Macbook and an iMac, it’s not like I needed the Pro 6 to do everything. I still miss that little guy tho.
For me, i mainly use the ipad for cartooning, and without a stylus, i use my finger to get better lines.
My game plan this year was to purchase a MacBook M1 and use the ipad program on the macbook,
but the app i use will not read on M1 so i disappointingly scraped that idea.
Hopefully Affinity Design will work the same on both Dell XSP and on a Surface Go
were I can organize and edit cartoons without sending them to and from as i do now.
I have a good file exchange system on the ipad-macbook
but there is room for errors and this can be better and more fool proof.
Im just happy google is ou tof this picture, an di will keep that tis way!
has anyone else seen this?
The main problem I see Microsoft having is competition with Apples M chipset. Now that they have started the roadmap for in house chips, Apple will be a force to be reckoned with. The M1 is only the first M chipset that they have produced and it’s already a beast.
Microsoft need to bring the thunder BIG time!
The main problem I see Microsoft having is competition with Apples M chipset. Now that they have started the roadmap for in house chips, Apple will be a force to be reckoned with. The M1 is only the first M chipset that they have produced and it’s already a beast.
Microsoft need to bring the thunder BIG time!
a few miliseconds faster is no big deal in real world use. Plus, if somone wants to do a bit of heavy lifting, the intel core in the surface will do better than the M series. So it's a wash really. Battery life is better in the M series compared to the surface but performance is a toss up.
Thing is the M1 Mac's are genuinely extremely fast no bones about it. My own M1 MBP out performs my very performant Hex Core 17" Asus notebook, significantly so.
It's far from "peaches and cream" as what wont work on Apple Silicon just wont simple as that. Tell you straight on performance Apple's M1 outright wins by a large margin. I've owned and used multiple Surface devices and it definitely isn't a wash, not remotely close to what these M1 Mac's can deliver.
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