Who knew people would take a chance on laptop that doesn't work when on your lap.
1. Small size (easy to carry around)
2. Keyboard that's even smaller, super light, and optional (easy to carry around)
3. Fantastic pen (better usability)
4. Full OS Capability (better usability)
The Surface RT on the other hand remains kind of pointless.
Overall, I still like my Surface (non Pro) but it's mostly for web browsing and media consumption.
Remarkable imagery.
1) Like a regular laptop.
2) Fold the keyboard back and open the stand so it makes a right angle. Place the right angle so that the keyboard is parallel with your stomach and the Surface is perpendicular. Now the Surface is floating above your lap near the bottom of your chest where it's easy to read and write on.
3) Completely remove the keyboard.
I feel sorry for people who are using products from Apple's sterile and completely un-innovative product lines that are all moving closer and closer to the locked-down anti-consumer, anti-developer iOS business model.
Honestly I think the product is pretty poorly designed, its just marketed well. Thats why the product hasn't turned much of a profit. Microsoft spent 400 million alone for the NFL to use them.
Now with all the problems surfacing(kek) they don't appear to be well built either.
Looks fine.
Is there any other hardware that can do this just as well? I think maybe the ipad pro but I have never used one.
iPad: 7.1B - doomed category
Surface Pro/Books: 1.35B - super impressive, categories of the future!I think it makes more sense to compare the Surface line to the MacBook Air than it does to compare it to iPads.
After some early missteps it looks like MSFT has finally gotten the "tablet as productivity device" right, along with "tablet as true laptop replacement".
Much of this is because of Windows as a platform rather than necessarily the hardware itself (though the fact that the hardware doesn't suck like your typical Dell or HP shitbox definitely helps a lot).
Which is to say, the declining fortunes of iPad is IMO largely a symptom of iOS's limitations rather than any larger rejection of the tablet form factor.
I think the reality is that Microsoft is essentially gaining market share as an OEM at the cost of its former Windows PC OEMs like Dell, HP etc.
iPad = declining sales year over year
Surface = increasing sales year over year
The iPad was hyped to kill laptops/PCs and Surface's doom was also hyped, so the new data points are interesting because they look like a reversal of trend.
After the mobile-grade tablet market was established by iPad and, later, other brands of devices, the Surface seems intended to offer the things people liked about tablets versus laptops or desktops (extreme portability, multitouch, etc) and has at least attempted to add back the things many people might have missed when using those mobile-class tablets such as greater flexibility in file management, the ability to install software from multiple sources, choose your own defaults, and run more capable software packages.
It's certainly had its tradeoffs and the greater power and flexibility meant it couldn't be quite as portable as a tablet or work quite as well in certain cases as a traditional laptop but it's been interesting to see how these companies seem to target audiences that aren't happy with certain aspects of dominant products.
The end result (for me at least) is that I've learned there's no "perfect" device or form factor that has all the pros and none of the cons in all situations. That said, more options certainly does make it easier to find something closer to what you're looking for. I enjoyed the portability of my iPad but chafed under restrictions that required jailbreaking to work around.
The Surface line still is not the perfect device for me but whenever my Asus laptop dies, I'll seriously be considering one as a secondary computer after using one at work (primary will probably remain a desktop for the foreseeable future).
The thing i did love about the surface is that the processor is not sitting on my lap, where as the macbook air/pro burns my legs all day long.
I would love for apple to make a version of the macbook that puts the processor behind the screen.
(irony zone, shortly after posting this, I realized that I’m typing from a lounge chair with my laptop squarely on my legs… but this is an unusual circumstance for me)
Really? Impressive for whom? 1.3B is less than what Apple made with the iWatch -- and that's after decades of MS losing money and trying to go somewhere with their table OS and then tablet offerings.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/10/29/apple-watch-sales-...
It lost all bluetooth and wifi - 4 months out of warranty (hardware issue). From googling - this was not a completely uncommon occurrence.
Yes - we should have gotten the extended warranty, but this was an expensive device, and we expected quality hardware that would last.
From a usability perspective, it is a device that is in-between. It is not a stellar tablet nor a stellar laptop.
Naviagational (Home/PgUp/PgDown/End) and volume keys are on by default meaning that you have to press the Fn-Alt-Function Key if you want to use Alt-Function. The problem with that is that an independent Fn press will lock out the function key, toggling the behaviour so that Function Keys are now the default.
I would like it if LAlt-FunctionKey was different behaviour from RAlt-FunctionKey. LAlt-F4 would close a program while RAlt-Function Key would change the volume. The requirement to use the Fn Key and the fact that the Fn can be locked (and easily and accidentally unlocked/locked again) is a serious usability issue.
Actually I'd prefer a full real keyboard... nevertheless the Surface Book and the SP4 keyboards are massive improvements.
Moreover, does anyone know if the undocking button next to the Delete key can be locked out, say, requiring a key combination instead?
That said, I'll probably end up getting the tablet version to augment the Surface Book unless they can fix detach. Way too often I try to detach and it won't because something is unable to release, and when I'm in "clipboard" mode there are no ports on the clipboard. I can get around that partially by using the dock which has ports but I'd really like a USB-C port and a micro-SD card slot on the display half.
But it comes nowhere close to my MBA 2012 (used by Linus for sometime) in terms of Linux compatibility. Almost perfect with a stock kernel except for really minor problems (no battery ACPI ticks when it discharges).
- Product is purchased by store.
- Customer actually buys product.
- Customer returns product.
- Unsold product is returned by store.
In other words, I don't know how to compare this to anything else because I don't know if it's counting units that didn't reach real customers, or if the announcement would be a lot different two weeks from now after some people return their Christmas presents?
UPD: since its mostly dull corporate websites, I think I am correct.
Why don't they publish the profit they made on their Surface line of products? This is a lot like the revenue they reported for Azure. Until we know what they actually made these numbers are of very little value.
You just had to come and shit all over Microsoft and make the same point that you already made up thread because uhhh, you call it like you see it...right?
Bullshit. More like you can't deal with opinions that don't match your own, especially when it comes to Microsoft and Apple. You're nothing more than an pro-Apple, anti-Microsoft fanboi.
As a portable laptop with a pen and screen with an excellent sRGB colorspace support - and with a nice keyboard - it's awesome.