Buying a Surface Laptop in a couple months, should I do it Sup Forums?

Buying a Surface Laptop in a couple months, should I do it Sup Forums?

>inb4 get a fucking thinkpad
(i already own one and no I am not getting another one)

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>impossible to disassemble
>fabric palmrest
>surface devices have a 25% failure rate
in to the trash it goes

Why do you need 2 laptop?

This my dude. on top of paying a premium youre getting an unfixable POS

I was really interested in buying a Surface device until 2 of my friends got them.

>one guy got a Surface Book
>after a year the display started turning yellow
>the replacement device has keyboard issues

>the other got a SP4
>died and had to be replaced
Frankly if MS are charging Apple tier prices, it should be as reliable as a MBP and have excellent support and service to back it up.

I have looked at an HP Spectre as well, but I have no idea between either of them.

Whatever you do don't get a Surface, if you're going to spend MacBook prices for low-voltage processors and shitty cooling you might as well just get a MacBook.

We bought a surface book to test at work. I do not recommend it.
Grab an HP Elitebook 840. They're much more repair/upgrade-friendly.

Source: am IT guy.

If you're gonna spend a lot of money on a laptop, at least get a good one.
>pic related, ASUS zenbook 3
Looks badass and a million dollars

Both are now on my list.

I would love a 15 inch zenbook deluxe with a high res screen. Maybe this year

MBP constantly overheat and thermal throttle though. Surface laptop does not. However it's not the best laptop out there.

Get an XPS 13/15 OP

Other than the surface line I have recently been looking at;

Zenbook flip
Spectre x360
XPS 13
Envy 360

I am leaning towards the XPS but at the same time I want a 2-in-1 so I can get rid of the physical whiteboard I have laying around and can then just throw up different notes pages to a 4k TV I have when needed.

Choices,.choices. also all devices are rediculously expensive in the UK

Who was the massive GENIUS behind the idea that a laptop needs a fabric surface, even a one than can't be replaced?

>MBP constantly overheat and thermal throttle though.
Nothing of that has happened to me at least.
Source: I have a mid 2014 Retina one.

thinkpad X1

take a look at the Latitude 7390. It's a 2 in 1 and a bit cheaper than the XPS

They are not cheaper than the cheapest XPS. They are £400 more even when on sale.

Although it might be worth it for the 2-in-1 aspect.
I could do with the extra ram, is the processor trade off worth it ?

I assume you just watch gay porn on it all day long. However when you put them to do anything more intensive than browsing gay porn they constantly overheat and thermal throttle. In fact it's so bad the quad-core MBP literally losses to a dual-core TABLET PC.

>"After our one-hour stress test with Prime95 and FurMark (Windows), the CPU runs at only1.2 GHz, while the graphics card is also limited to just 400 MHz. Even though devices fromAsus,Acer& Co. also throttle, none of the direct rivals loses that much performance. The performance of the MacBook was much better under OS X, but the tools (Cinebench and Unigine Heaven) are not that demanding for the hardware."

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>"We had our doubts on the performance of the Surface Pro 4 Core i7 configuration considering the throttling issues found on the Surface Pro 3. Luckily, we can observe no major performance issues when under high loads. The tablet is able to maintain its maximum Turbo Boost of 3.2 GHz for both cores when under Prime95 stress and Unigine Heaven stress."

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Huawei Matebook X

what's the point of putting the envy on the same list as the spectre

Cheaper and similar if not same specs in most cases. Just lesser build quality and doesn't ship with pen iirc.

You obviously have enough money even consider the Spectre, so why give equal say to it's shitty little brother

get a thinkpad

I'm buying a graphite gold i7, 8gb, 256gb tonight.
Just do it faggot. Fuck all the other Chinese plastic shit, coil whining, fan blowing laptops.

>Stressing the cpu and GPU to levels you would reach in normal use makes it throttle.

Who would have known.

>>Stressing the cpu and GPU to levels you would reach in normal use makes it throttle.
>Who would have known.
Well yeah, not all of us use laptops to browse gay porn man. Some of us have jobs and things to do.

Thus why apple laptops are trash. Not only does this constant overheating and thermal throttling make them uncomfortable to hold/type on but it can make the battery inside them violently detonate like pic related.

Get a (real) Mac.

What if OP wants to do other things beside browse gay porn?

This is from 2015. update this

Only get a surface device if you're going to school that allows note taking on laptops.

I have a Thinkpad as my main workstation and a Surface Pro 4 (with the pen) as a tablet.

When I was a freshman, it was a bit uncomfortable cause I was used to writing with pens but trust me, it pays itself back really fast. I haven't bought a single college textbook till now and might have saved somewhere around ~$1400 (I'm a junior) by pirating PDFs and taking all my notes on the PDFs themselves.

I was thinking of getting an iPad instead of the Surface but the thing about the surface is that it doubles up as an emergency laptop as well. Eg: I had to run some simple calculations in Mathematica for a class and instead of carrying my Thinkpad I just dl'ed Mathematica on the surface and used it instead.

apple would hunt me down if I did

I've had one for about a month. It's been great but there is absolutely no reason to stick with windows 10s, upgrade ASAP.

Taking notes, running analytic software, and general laptop use has been great.

Try to buy an open box one to save extra cash.