Microsoft Surface Pro Review
here are two ways to look at the Surface Pro. You can either compare it to the other “consumer” style tablets out there which are generally considered smartp…
Video Rating: 4 / 5
We take a quick look at the Surface Pro Tablet.
Nice video, thanks.
Microsoft may not have invented it, but their concept and integration into Windows beats anything Crapples ever thought of. The iPad has so many downfalls that its sickening what they charge for it. Why would I ever want a single Appstore regulated by retards who can’t grasp the concept of choice around their self centered heads. I could literally sit here and list off everything the iPad can’t do with respects to Mac’s and PC’s for hours(3rd party Apps, business needs, security, etc).
iPad is a stretched out iPhone with reduced functionality, you spend more and get less and in six months its outdated and crapple says you have to upgrade. Last I checked, OEMS like Lenovo were showing solid sales of Windows 8 devices because they actually give a crap, unlike some of the other vendors. You call Windows 8 legacy software, but in reality it makes up for all the downfalls of ARM based tablets, if I want android apps on surface I can use Bluestack, if I want Linux(just dual boot).
Your logic is completely flawed, the iPad and Mac are two very distinct Ecosystems. Even your overlords at Crapple make that distinction, they can’t wrap the idea of having the true power of a x86 in a tablet. No matter how hard the iPad and other tablets try to replicate the PC, they are clearly meant to be supplementary devices, and most people buy them in addition to a laptop. Battery life really isn’t a concern when people are considering the Surface.
very nice review
“Jackie Rolanta” you have put far too much effort on attempting to bash this review. Yes it’s a bit biased as a large majority of reviews are. But x86 architecture is here to stay regardless. Ground up iOS hasn’t change at all besides trimming some fat an deleting and re-adding apps bundled in the software. Sometimes ring different isn’t necessarily good when the ipad and iPhone are starting to bore people so much that apples stocks have plummeted a couple hundred bucks.
When all of your hardware partners bash your OS it’s safe to say you’ve done something wrong. There is only one decent windows 8 tablet on the market and that’s the Samsung ATIV smart PC. At least samsung took into account that it’s legacy software and can power manage a little better, but it still doesn’t compare to new age software
The only time i’m not using my ipad is when i purposely want to look at a larger display IE a desktop or notebook. That’s about it. The ipad’s software is miniaturized, and written from the ground up. Windows 8 is windows 7 with a touch UI top. It runs legacy software, which will never be optimized for low power. So once you power up photoshop forget it! Your battery is gone in 2 hours. Why are people so thick in the head? Not one OEM recommends windows 8.
That’s the silliest thing i’ve ever heard. You obviously never owned an iPad or a Mac. The ipad is just like a mac, set up for touch. You can do pretty much anything on your ipad you can do on your mac. Record music with garage band and hundreds of other third party apps, make graphic art with fully functional vector drawing apps like iDraw and InkPad ( which blow illustrator away) Word editing with pages, drawing apps like sketchbook pro. Your statement makes 0 sense. Oh and ipads get 10 hours
Without the software being written from the ground up Microsoft cannot deliver a proper tablet experience. Windows 8 is windows 7 with a touch UI top. That’s it. It’s still built on legacy code. The new world calls for software miniaturization. In the future this small software becomes more powerful than desktop software. It’s built to save power, it’s made from the ground up for a reason. It’s why windows 8 has gained 0 traction. The only thing missing from an ipad is pen support.
5 hour battery life = not a tablet. The surface is a notebook. It suffers an identity crisis. Samsung makes much better windows 8 tablets. It’s a different world. Windows 8 is OLD legacy software. It’s why 0 OEM’s recommend it. I’ve only see one good windows 8 tablet and that’s the Samsung Ativ. Still, 5 hour battery life cancels out any thoughts of windows 8 machines being tablets. Their just windows machines with a touch screen. The iPad is a tablet, who’s software is miniaturized.
On an ipad you can, Record music with garage band plus hundreds of other third party apps, you can use fully functional vector drawing apps like iDraw & inkpad, you have hundreds of drawing and painting apps, word editing with pages. Numbers, keynote, ect. All which can be exported as doc files. I mean what you can do with an iPad is limitless. Software gets more powerful with time. Right now there are people who use the ipad as their main computing device. It’s a computing device no matter what
I’m sorry i just couldn’t help but comment. Microsoft didn’t invent the tablet. The idea of the tablet form factor has been talked about since the 80’s. LONG before Microsoft made a tablet, apple had sketches and patents for tablet technology. Facts must be correct before you put them in a video. Second, the iPad does replace many things people do on a PC. What can’t you do on an iPad? You can do anything you can do on a Mac on an iPad. So i don’t see where this idea of play vs work.
Battery life is around 5 hour. The i5 destroys the Atom in performance in both cpu and gpu, so it’s an unfair comparison.
Bad battery life, have the surface rt and hate that i can’t use desktop apps. Thought of selling it but value declined to much. Vivotab smart is $500 and runs full windows but only atom, but battery is 8-9 hours vs 3 hours for this
Yes. It’s a pc =)
How about you go talk to Microsoft store?
Seriously bro?
You think a pricey high end spec-ed tablet will not run a simple skype application? -.-
is that work with skype
This feels more like Microsoft propaganda than an actual review but it still looks excellent. iPads are annoyingly good, I was really hoping Microsoft would do something like this.
Well made review! +1 like!
How would the software and hardware handle programs such as Autodesk Inventor or Solidworks?
The Windows 8 Desktop and Windows 7 work exactly the same way, except for a few backwards compatibilitiy issues with older programs (which is expected).
The lack of a “start menu” button is just something you get used to, or you get the Windows 8 addon that brings the start menu back, so it’s not really even that big of a deal.
The biggest problem is no pre-installed dvd codecs, which is EASILY remedied by using VLC player, which is free and much nicer than Windows Media Center.
is this Pocketnow’s first PC review? hahaha
one of the reason elo hell exists
Nice video, thanks.
Microsoft may not have invented it, but their concept and integration into Windows beats anything Crapples ever thought of. The iPad has so many downfalls that its sickening what they charge for it. Why would I ever want a single Appstore regulated by retards who can’t grasp the concept of choice around their self centered heads. I could literally sit here and list off everything the iPad can’t do with respects to Mac’s and PC’s for hours(3rd party Apps, business needs, security, etc).
iPad is a stretched out iPhone with reduced functionality, you spend more and get less and in six months its outdated and crapple says you have to upgrade. Last I checked, OEMS like Lenovo were showing solid sales of Windows 8 devices because they actually give a crap, unlike some of the other vendors. You call Windows 8 legacy software, but in reality it makes up for all the downfalls of ARM based tablets, if I want android apps on surface I can use Bluestack, if I want Linux(just dual boot).
Your logic is completely flawed, the iPad and Mac are two very distinct Ecosystems. Even your overlords at Crapple make that distinction, they can’t wrap the idea of having the true power of a x86 in a tablet. No matter how hard the iPad and other tablets try to replicate the PC, they are clearly meant to be supplementary devices, and most people buy them in addition to a laptop. Battery life really isn’t a concern when people are considering the Surface.
very nice review
“Jackie Rolanta” you have put far too much effort on attempting to bash this review. Yes it’s a bit biased as a large majority of reviews are. But x86 architecture is here to stay regardless. Ground up iOS hasn’t change at all besides trimming some fat an deleting and re-adding apps bundled in the software. Sometimes ring different isn’t necessarily good when the ipad and iPhone are starting to bore people so much that apples stocks have plummeted a couple hundred bucks.
When all of your hardware partners bash your OS it’s safe to say you’ve done something wrong. There is only one decent windows 8 tablet on the market and that’s the Samsung ATIV smart PC. At least samsung took into account that it’s legacy software and can power manage a little better, but it still doesn’t compare to new age software
The only time i’m not using my ipad is when i purposely want to look at a larger display IE a desktop or notebook. That’s about it. The ipad’s software is miniaturized, and written from the ground up. Windows 8 is windows 7 with a touch UI top. It runs legacy software, which will never be optimized for low power. So once you power up photoshop forget it! Your battery is gone in 2 hours. Why are people so thick in the head? Not one OEM recommends windows 8.
That’s the silliest thing i’ve ever heard. You obviously never owned an iPad or a Mac. The ipad is just like a mac, set up for touch. You can do pretty much anything on your ipad you can do on your mac. Record music with garage band and hundreds of other third party apps, make graphic art with fully functional vector drawing apps like iDraw and InkPad ( which blow illustrator away) Word editing with pages, drawing apps like sketchbook pro. Your statement makes 0 sense. Oh and ipads get 10 hours
Without the software being written from the ground up Microsoft cannot deliver a proper tablet experience. Windows 8 is windows 7 with a touch UI top. That’s it. It’s still built on legacy code. The new world calls for software miniaturization. In the future this small software becomes more powerful than desktop software. It’s built to save power, it’s made from the ground up for a reason. It’s why windows 8 has gained 0 traction. The only thing missing from an ipad is pen support.
5 hour battery life = not a tablet. The surface is a notebook. It suffers an identity crisis. Samsung makes much better windows 8 tablets. It’s a different world. Windows 8 is OLD legacy software. It’s why 0 OEM’s recommend it. I’ve only see one good windows 8 tablet and that’s the Samsung Ativ. Still, 5 hour battery life cancels out any thoughts of windows 8 machines being tablets. Their just windows machines with a touch screen. The iPad is a tablet, who’s software is miniaturized.
On an ipad you can, Record music with garage band plus hundreds of other third party apps, you can use fully functional vector drawing apps like iDraw & inkpad, you have hundreds of drawing and painting apps, word editing with pages. Numbers, keynote, ect. All which can be exported as doc files. I mean what you can do with an iPad is limitless. Software gets more powerful with time. Right now there are people who use the ipad as their main computing device. It’s a computing device no matter what
I’m sorry i just couldn’t help but comment. Microsoft didn’t invent the tablet. The idea of the tablet form factor has been talked about since the 80’s. LONG before Microsoft made a tablet, apple had sketches and patents for tablet technology. Facts must be correct before you put them in a video. Second, the iPad does replace many things people do on a PC. What can’t you do on an iPad? You can do anything you can do on a Mac on an iPad. So i don’t see where this idea of play vs work.
Battery life is around 5 hour. The i5 destroys the Atom in performance in both cpu and gpu, so it’s an unfair comparison.
Bad battery life, have the surface rt and hate that i can’t use desktop apps. Thought of selling it but value declined to much. Vivotab smart is $500 and runs full windows but only atom, but battery is 8-9 hours vs 3 hours for this
Yes. It’s a pc =)
How about you go talk to Microsoft store?
Seriously bro?
You think a pricey high end spec-ed tablet will not run a simple skype application? -.-
is that work with skype
This feels more like Microsoft propaganda than an actual review but it still looks excellent. iPads are annoyingly good, I was really hoping Microsoft would do something like this.
Well made review! +1 like!
How would the software and hardware handle programs such as Autodesk Inventor or Solidworks?
The Windows 8 Desktop and Windows 7 work exactly the same way, except for a few backwards compatibilitiy issues with older programs (which is expected).
The lack of a “start menu” button is just something you get used to, or you get the Windows 8 addon that brings the start menu back, so it’s not really even that big of a deal.
The biggest problem is no pre-installed dvd codecs, which is EASILY remedied by using VLC player, which is free and much nicer than Windows Media Center.
is this Pocketnow’s first PC review? hahaha :)
one of the reason elo hell exists