An ideal alternative for someone who wants the MacBook’s build quality and Windows compatibility.
More than enough power for that.
Surface devices are usually fairly reliable and they do honour CGA within reason
(Service tech for a major retailer)
Use these for work, whike enterprise uses them, they are quite bad, Stay away! Go with HP's laptops instead
In my experience, and totally just my experience - I think they are much better built and feel than the HP Elitebooks.
I would prefer Thinkpads though, probably a huge nostalgia factor to it.
We have the 4, 5, and 6 at work. They are alright, look great but uses Intel chips during their dark ages.
Even ROG Ally has the same amount of ram and more storage than a "business" laptop, come on!
Sod editing a spreadsheet on an ally though.
I wouldn't even do a lot of heavy editing on my 16inch MacBook pro. Much better with a dock
Performance Specs like cpu, ram, gpu arent a reason to get a Surface over other laptops. They're for everyday computing, not gaming and high power applications.
It's things like the Apple like build quality (aluminium body) and finish. Higher resolution and brighter high quality touchscreens, pen support. Professional looking.
I personally rate them if your use case fits. For this price its an amazing deal, and I hate Microsoft as a company….
Is their repairability any better than before?
I wouldnt think so, anything that is that slimline is hard to repair. Is that something that most people even factor in when it comes to portable electronics nowadays?
Is this a good value latop for my partner ? will be used for extremely light gaming, youtube, netflix etc and potentially work ?