Re: Microsoft's Surface Book VS. Apple's MacBook Pro 2016
Hi,
Surface all the way for me.
I got to play with a 2014 air running windows. Right next to that was a surface 3 pro (not the 4).
The air ran hotter (and I mean, when the processor was maxed out you could hardly touch the computer). Installing max fan control helped a bit, but I shouldn't have to do that on a $1800 computer.
The surface pro 3, on the other hand, ran cool, silent and was a joy to use. The pain of installing windows on mac now is yet one more reason to go surface, especially if you bootcamp a lot. Older macs have it easy - newer not so much.
With the new macs out now, the touch bar may be usable under mac but windows will be a lot more difficult. Gone are the days where you can find f3 with a finger. You're only point of reference will be the number keys and moving your finger up from there, which is just all kinds of horrible at best, especially for alt f4. Productivity will go down by 75% unless we somehow figure a method out.Don't factor out the surface pro 4. Though it doesn't have a dedicated dock, the cover is super nice to type on and it still gets decent batterylife. Of course if you're wanting the power of discrete graphics, go with the surface book but for what 99% of people do, the pro will do you just fine and price wise it's the way to go.
After all that, I own a dell inspiron 13. Absolutely love it. i7, 12 gb ram, and512 gb ssd. With accident protection and warranty for 4 years, 13% tax here in Canada I still managed to get it for $1800. The surface pro, let alone the surface book, was $400 more than this dell and that didn't include warranty of any kind for the same specs - or at least, close enough to the same.
Don't get me started on apples need of USB c now, too. On a computer starting at $1000 and coming with no adapters for anything is just ridiculous. Plus it just looks stupid - having to use a dongle to plug a simple USB cable into your comp
uter is laughable, but that's just me.
And there you go. My observations.
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