What is the IQfy consensus on the surface line?
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What is the IQfy consensus on the surface line?
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Got one and it's ok, works pretty well for drawing and sculpting in blender but windows isn't great as a touchscreen UI so I wouldn't recommend it as a general usage tablet.
Microsoft but if it was apple but also worse and also windows
My SP4 got so hot it would leave imprints of itself on paper and when I asked microsoft if that was normal they responded with "try not to use it in that type of situation"
When I asked "You mean an office desk?" they said yes.
Never bought one again.
Yeah this, I had a three and I don't know how it survived the length that it did, the heat that would come off it was intense, and in highschool I had a fricken cover on it too
wow! you’d really have to be one dumb wienersucker to buy one of these
>IQfy consensus
no such thing
The ones that are called laptops seem decent. The tablet ones are shitty. Honestly, chinkpad is still somehow king for workhorse.
I had a surface laptop for a year before selling it. It sorta felt premium with its metal and glass shit but still felt flimsy like the screen would snap off sooner or later. It goes out of its way to prevent you from installing linux but you still can if you're determined enough. Didn't have enough ports for what I needed. Battery life was fricked until a firmware update that came several months later. It made me realize metal is a shit material for laptops because it'll get too hot to touch. Or cold if you're out in the snow. Keyboard was ass. Overall 4/10 experience. I went back to thinkpads.
Spilled water on it, and the water got inside the fans because they're on the top of the damn keyboard. I immediately unplugged it from the tablet, and shook the water out of it, but the fricking thing stayed on and fried itself. Sent it to windows for repairs and they said they couldn't fix it. I couldn't buy a standalone replacement.
Was such a horrible experience that I bought a desktop with linux immediately after and haven't used Windows as a daily driver since.
They feel very premium, but they are too densely packed & have insufficient cooling so they tend to overheat and throttle.
I bought one 2 years ago to do academic zoom calls with but this thing is so badly optimized it can't run zoom. A shame really the form factor is perfect
funny thing about zoom. Years ago my acer Chromebook r11 ran zoom with no overheating, better battery, and better camera quality, meanwhile the surface laptop go was the complete opposite; it ran hot, its fans spun loudly, and battery was shit. I sold that thing as soon as I finished my classes for the semester
Yeah, mine was bought by the lab so I can't really sell it, but next time I need some zoom device I'll get an ipad
apple-tier brand markup and I judge tools based on price-performance ratio so they're trash
>IQfy consensus
No such thing, newfriend.
I've read they are mediocre. Now kindly return to reddit.
Overpriced, garbage, shitty fricking firmware
I have the surface studio so I can draw on it, it had windows 11 and would always heat up and drain the battery. For a "portable device" I had to bring the fricking charger with me so it wouldn't die within the hour. I downgraded it to windows 10 and it runs great now lol.
wannabe mac but shitty
Too expensive mostly
Just get a proper tablet or 2-in-1, the surface pro is absurdly expensive for what it is, if you want 16gb of ram instead of 8 it's a fricking $200 upcharge
Surface and the 2:1 surfacebook are cool ideas with shit-tier executions. Studio is … I guess it has some very specific user cases that are just not for me, so hard to judge. The normal laptop is completely ass at the price.
apple tier
costly
unrepairable
slop
Consumer prostitute in me wants to get a Go, but I've resisted so far. Occasionally I'll see a Surface pop up at the thrift stores, but usually it's an RT.
How's the Linux support on Surface?
>How's the Linux support on Surface?
I had to plug in a separate keyboard to install linux on mine. That should tell you how linux friendly these devices are.
It's like an iPad, but you have more control to run all the cool stuff you want to run unlike on Apple devices.
>want to use it in tablet mode
>doesn’t let me disconnect the screen because of random background applications
>keyboard battery starts fricking up and makes the device unusable while connected
>huge pain in the ass to repair
Buying one of these laptops was such a mistake.
I could’ve gotten over 10 Thinkpads for the same price.
Why doesn't Microsoft sell a Mac Mini competitor Surface mini PC?
>Surface Pro
Terrible. Literally just a laptop but worse. Garbage performance, thick as frick, not really usable as a tablet and actively made worse as a laptop to make room for functionality as a tablet no one will use.
No one even uses the Surface as a tablet in promotional material for the Surface, that's how bad it is. They know it's basically just a laptop.
>Surface Book
Take every complaint I had about the Surface Pro and apply it here sans performance constraints.
>Surface Laptop
It's alright. Don't know what they were thinking with Alcantara palm rests though. Good laptop overall if unnecessarily hard to repair in the first generation.
>Surface Studio
Genuinely forgot they were selling these. Don't know enough about them. Seems like a nice enough concept for digital artists.
Verdict: Buy a ThinkPad.
I don't know who is the target audience for it.
People who want to larp as professional yet trendy but don't want to/can't use a mac.
my job gave me a surface pro. I think it's okay for work purposes and I like the more square resolution, but that's about it.
I hate to say it, but if your budget is tight, get a thinkpad. if your budget isn't a problem, get a thinkpad.