You have to place it very high on your lap to keep the hinge from sliding off your knee. That works fine on a table, but on your lap it's a little less successful. The keyboard is of course a separate unit, and the Surface stays upright due to the hinge at the back. Perhaps also a flawed comparison after I have explained in detail that the Surface is clearly not a real tablet, but given Microsoft does praise it that way, I also think it is a fair game to make the comparison.įurthermore, you cannot easily place the laptop on your lap.

It's not bad at all, but I expected a little more. My iPad easily lasts a day, even if I use it quite regularly. The battery life could have been a bit longer. There are some minor caveats that I would like to add. As a laptop, it meets almost all requirements. So I would see the Surface Pro more as a laptop you can draw on, than as a tablet/laptop hybrid. Because of the rubber tip of the pen, you don't need a matte screen protector to be able to draw normally (which you almost always have to do with the iPad). But that's a small trade-off for the extra functionalities you get compared to the simplified iPad version. Of course, the problem arises again that Photoshop is not optimized for touch. It is also very handy that you simply have the full version of Photoshop or Illustrator at hand. I heard some bad stories about the technology, and how hard it would be to draw straight lines. If you don't have a tablet, you can watch Netflix on it just fine, but for the convenience of a real tablet, you're wrong here. With Windows, the tablet mode is clearly glued on top. All the options are big enough that even someone with sausage fingers can handle them, and the whole experience is built around it. The iPad was designed from the start to be controlled with touch controls. Although it would technically be perfectly capable of this, you will notice very clear differences if you compare it with, for example, an iPad.

The operating system isn't really designed to be used as a tablet, despite Microsoft's futile efforts to create a decent experience. There are too few apps for the tablet mode, and the apps that do sometimes feel like they're put together a bit half-heartedly. The tablet mode is there, but it just isn't. Fast, beautiful, solid, and the pen absolutely tops it off. Very good ***laptop***, which actually meets all requirements. Not bad at all, but I expected a bit more

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