Personally I think it looks nice, but I have a Surface Pro 2 that works just perfectly fine and I love it. The hardware on it is still good and I don't see any reason to upgrade.
EDIT: Don't work for MS, just a happy Surface owner.
"The breakage rate for Microsoft Corp’s Surface devices is significantly worse than for other manufacturers’ laptops and tablets, Consumer Reports said, adding that it was removing its “recommended” designation for Surface products."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-surface/microso...
In the past, there was a minor issue that the surface tablet didn't understand that you removed the keyboard. But that seems to be fixed now and it didn't happen that often anyway.
As a result I will probably upgrade to the SB2 in a few years and still be very happy.
I don't get this. Your feelings of inferiority are your own feelings, not the fault of a tech company's marketing agency or some other external agent.
It has not disappointed me.
Even that’s not entirely fair. The submitted link was to the blog post, not the marketing page that someone else posted.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/3qcqha/ubuntu...
Man, I would have bought it in heartbeat.
I don’t reason why Microsoft pushes touchscreen anymore. Considering their Win10Phone is dead already as they are the one admit it.
So we have detachable Surface Pro which is great. But we can a surface laptop without touchscreen, on it.
Doesn't that eliminate one of the primary draws of the platform? I love taking notes and whiteboarding on my SP3.
If I had paid more than a few hundred dollars for an SP3, I would be quite upset with the numerous annoyances. As of now, it generally works ok. Of course Windows is still trash (which app do I use for settings again)?
But yeah, once you start taking people's money in Apple ballpark (and these are not cheap), make things work at least as good as Apple (which, yes, isn't perfect), or expect negative comments.
You seem to dislike Windows quite a bit. To the point where it seems personal or you have a vendetta against it.
Yes things like settings are silly in modern Windows. But they aren't make or break stuff.
There's major positives to be seen from Windows too. They are the only major player trying to get touch working on desktop. That's not easy to do.
You don't specify what sloppiness or "years of varying quirky behavior" so I can't say much about that. If I wanted to really criticize the other OSes I have experience with - MacOS and Ubuntu. I'm sure I could come up with sloppiness issues and varying quirky behavior too. It wouldn't be hard at all, but it wouldn't be right either. They are both solid OSes overall (at least for now).
I have better things to do then have a "vendetta" against either a corporation or a piece of equipment (I don't know which you were insinuating).
At the same time I have no reason to defend commercial entities that should do better.
Like I said, I use the goddamn thing (SP3) as a daily driver for mobile use. It doesn't change the fact that numerous things have been appallingly broken for a stack completely controlled by Microsoft. I absolutely do not care to enumerate the "quirky behavior". For that you can go to answers.microsoft.com and also get a laugh observing that shitshow of unhelpfulness.
Apple help for MacOS stuff for example is hilarious from official or major communities. They treat everyone like complete newbies.
Not being too used to Ubuntu except for production servers, I was never able to resolve getting it to work on my Touchpad back in 2010 nor getting my VM to update from 14 to 16 without screwing up. From my pov, in aggregate, all the OSes have their issues
Why not sell the SP3 and get anything else? No one should use something they dislike this much if it isn't mandated.