Microsoft please use this in the surface laptop update for this year. Last years Ryzen Surface Laptop 3 was a bit anemic IMO. This would be insane, pair with upgradeable storage and ram and I would buy over a MBP.
This expensive machine contains high quality components. For the sake of the environment, it should be illegal. I will never buy Microsoft again.
Unfortunately, Microsoft went the same direction as Apple with the Surface Book (minimal to zero repairability).
Don't get me wrong, I'm disappointed myself in this product, but it doesn't take away from the successes elsewhere in the Surface product line.
With AMD processors in the next Xbox, they'd have pretty good visibility already on the AMD offerings coming.
I think ARM based Surface RT was a similar plan, getting in early on ARM to be ready for when their performance matched Intel. It's a shame of course that Qualcomm never got there, and it was only Apple that kept ramping ARM processor performance.
What do you do that solely depends on the CPU and would improve so much by moving to AMD, at the cost of a completely different OS and software?
It would still be beleaguered by Windows, the main reason most of us moved to Macs. :)
It also gives a better battery life on average compared to Windows on the same machine.
And the new Mac Pro is apparently a beast in performance and cooling.
Only if you have a dedicated gpu. Because OSX can easily switch between integrated and discrete.
On my Macbook 12" I get 2 extra hours out of Windows 10. But on my old Retina Mac Pro I get almost half the time out of Windows 10.
It's a shame that Apple wont go AMD because the battery life would be awesome on OSX with discrete gpu.
I think they're probably just gonna go with their own custom ARM processors, which may have even better battery life.
Even on Metal?
https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/6/20950487/microsoft-surfac...
Surface Pro uses Core i3/i5/i7.
Surface Laptop uses Core i5/i7 or AMD Ryzen 5/7.
Surface Go uses Pentium Gold.
Surface Studio uses Core i7.