Originally posted by Jon`C:
Yeah, good thing Microsoft has never implied that you can use the Surface on your lap with a touch cover.
Yeah, because no one else makes ridiculous marketing videos.
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No, this is a failing of the tablet. The Nexus 7 has a comparable screen resolution in a smaller size (216 dpi vs. 148 dpi). Microsoft cheaped out on the screen, end of story. (They probably had to decrease the screen cost to offset the higher cost of the magnesium alloy vs. aluminum. What would you rather have, though? A tablet that shows scratches on the back, or a tablet with a ****ty screen?)
Yeah, I'm sure they needed to save that much money to offset the cost (not). Edit: It was far more likely to me that the OS was so under-performing that it couldn't push pixels fast enough for a 2560x1440 screen or whatever it'd be.
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No, it's a huge problem. It means the power connector was not designed or tested adequately. How many cycles do you think they put their prototypes through if they had to have someone testing it manually, jiggling and reseating it to make a connection? I don't think it's going to cause fires, like the first-generation magsafe connectors, but it's not a good sign.
Yes, make it a huge problem so you have something to stand on. The thing isn't going to fry, it just has to be placed carefully to connect. Sort of like how micro-usb does on every phone on the planet. I'm not going to use conjecture to assume that because the connector doesn't immediately snap like a magsafe that the whole device is broken. You do, because that's the only point I've conceded for you.
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The Surface is an integrated system. Yes, you could eke better performance out of the hardware by running a more efficient operating system, but the entire point of the device is that it runs capital-W Windows. Microsoft deliberately chose hardware that can't handle it.
It's not a problem of "optimization". iOS and Android are aggressively designed to handle mobile device workloads from the ground up, and include lots of tricks and hacks to make the user experience look more fluid than it really is. You can't optimize the desktop out of a desktop OS.
It's not a problem of "optimization". iOS and Android are aggressively designed to handle mobile device workloads from the ground up, and include lots of tricks and hacks to make the user experience look more fluid than it really is. You can't optimize the desktop out of a desktop OS.
You just stated explicitly what I was implying. They needed to optimize the desktop out of Windows, and they didn't. That's not the Surface hardware's fault, that's the software engineer's team for thinking it'd be possible. I explained why I made this distinction already in the final big paragraph of my previous post, so I'm not going to do it again.
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If the covers show skin oil and are difficult to clean, it means they chose poor materials for a device that is meant to be handled frequently. Yes, this is a mark off the device. Why would you ever think otherwise?
Because I like to compare it to other devices, not some imaginary perfect world where this doesn't happen to everything.
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I mentioned it because this was brought up in a review. I don't even own an SD card. You're the one who said that the reviews were all positive about the hardware.
Did they follow up with "for this reason I can't recommend a Surface tablet"? No, of course not (I read that review). The bullet point on every major review I've read has been Windows RT/8.