Surfacebook i7 VS the new MacBook pro

[David58117]

I actually bought an i5/256GB/8GB Surface book.

..I love that thing!

I'm actually prepared to switch to Windows after being an Apple-only user for years.

Windows 10 has improved tremendously on the Surfaces, and it's been bug free for me. The monopoly Apple has had on good trackpads is pretty much over, and Microsoft actually copied the gestures (like 3 finger swipe between desktops), which is great.

I'm so disappointed the iPad Pro hasn't taken off with Professional level apps. I've waited since launch for something like Staffpad, but all we've been given are apps that feel like toys in comparison. There's no excuse.

The interesting take away for me from the events was - Microsoft actually made the Surface Book base thicker by adding a better dGPU and increasing the battery life.

Apple focused on making theirs thinner....

That says it all to me.

Bye Apple!

 

[inhalexhale1]

I keep seeing this like it's been copy and pasted. What's the drawback? That you simply don't like windows 10 and it isn't for you or are you saying it is objectively a terrible OS?

I updated a prehistoric laptop I haven't used in years to windows 10. I'm talking an old hp laptop from 2008 that was so slow I couldn't do jack on it. After windows 10, it ran like a new laptop. It was one of the strangest experiences I've had in a long time. After years of going "eww Microsoft" and enjoying my apple products, I actually had a moment where I was like "hey. This isn't as bad as I thought". Now I'm studying computer science and see more surface pros lately in the business world than macs. And that wouldn't have happened a few years ago. Just no way

That's exactly what these posts are. It's "I don't want to use Windows for (reasons)" packaged as "Windows is inferior to MacOS", which is not true.

I have both on my Mac, and I've been surprised that some things MacOS just won't do will work fine on Windows. This is on the same hardware through bootcamp! I personally like MacOS better overall, but Win10 is not this unusable mess.