indignantgoat

Xbox GP Ultimate is ~ $180 a year, so 2-3x as much, but you get access to multiple free games a month from the Gold side and MS’s entire library, including brand new games, starting like a year or two ago and going forward.

If you can pay this in way less than an hour’s work, you’re in the top ~5% or so income-wise in the U.S., so, per the person you were responding to, it’s definitely not their target market LOL.

It was $200 more, but I got a Legion w/ the i7, 16GB RAM and a 2070 at Costco. It rips through SolidWorks.

This is such a completely different class of laptop than the MBP, not really sure where that comes in.

The Surface Studio was at least beautiful for what it was, and not replacing another product line.

The time and money that went in to this should have been spent finishing the Neo.

Whether or not an iPad works as a productivity device is completely dependent on your use case.

Files and settings haven’t been an issue for several years now if you use OneDrive or iCloud.

Having two screens or a laptop and notebook more than makes up for ‘carrying two devices’.

It’s definitely of interest to me, but our default replacement window at work is 4 years

I don’t hate this device, but I hate that it’s replacing the Surface Book.

I have a SB 2, and I bought it because it specifically did what I needed it to.

I’m not hauling this effing thing into a meeting for note-taking or using it w/ Readly or etc.

This form factor saves me 4-5 seconds if I’m swapping to easel mode to work in Photoshop, but that’s about it. In terms of power, it doesn’t seem much beyond the dGPU Surface Book versions, and it probably has even more throttling with the CPU and GPU both in the bottom.

Then there’s the price. My SB2 with an i5 and 8GB RAM was $1,200. Nothing in the base unit with its integrated graphics screams "$400 more!" This thing weighs more and costs the same as an M1 MBA and and iPad Air combined. It’s not so much a 2-in-1 as it is a costs and weighs 2, but for only 1.

They should have left the Book alone, and put this time into finishing the Neo.