"Tripper" (tripe46)
05/18/2016 at 11:52 • Filed to: None
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"Tripper" (tripe46)
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I just bought a Surface Pro 4 spec’d all the way up for one of our employees. I was skeptical especially since this surface will replace a Dell Precision workstation running 3 monitors and a TV. The surface is an i7, 16 RAM, 1tb SSD to the tune of $2600! Jumping from 512 to 1tb with the SSD costs $500 extra which is laughable. You can get a surface that would be more than fine for most people for around $1k
In any case, this thing is a beast. I’ve got it running 5 individual displays (using 4 adapters), 30 tabs in chrome, outlook, our database, and a bunch of apps that we use daily without issue. The stuff that the pen does is pretty slick too. Hopefully it can be reconfigured to work with EverNote.
I have a brand new MacBook, and I’m not about to run out and trade it in for a surface, but I will definitely be requesting a new work PC in the near future.
Any Oppos using a surface for work?
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Tripper
05/18/2016 at 11:54 |
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The only thing that prevented me from getting a surface was the fact that I hated the keyboard on the 2 and 3.
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Tripper
> Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
05/18/2016 at 11:58 |
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Yea I agree, I’m not in love with the keyboard. However at my company people are in a dock with a nice keyboard and mouse 90% of the time.
Chariotoflove
> Tripper
05/18/2016 at 12:01 |
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I’m a Mac person; so, I’ve been considering an iPad Pro, but all I read about the Surface 4 is pretty good. If my wife, who needs to use Windows stuff for her business software, needed a portable, I’d be at the Microsoft store checking these out.
Flavien Vidal
> Tripper
05/18/2016 at 12:04 |
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And 3 to 4 hours of battery life? For something that has been built to be brought around everywhere... That would be the deal breaker for me.
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Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Tripper
05/18/2016 at 12:09 |
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I have to carry all my stuff around so extra keyboard not an option.
lone_liberal
> Tripper
05/18/2016 at 12:12 |
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I’ve been wanting one, especially the 4, but I can’t justify it. I’m not on the road enough to make it cost effective.
Nibby
> Tripper
05/18/2016 at 12:13 |
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I hope you know that the Surface i7 is not really an i7... it’s a dual core ULV processor that is on par with performance of higher end Sandy Bridge laptops from a few years ago.
Just curious why you would replace a workstation with a Surface, unless portability was a big factor...
My speed3 is happy
> Tripper
05/18/2016 at 12:18 |
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One of my coworkers uses one. He says it is surprisingly powerful. He gave a demo similar to what you just described. But I am happy with my Alienware 13. After his demo I started the Overwatch Beta on mine, and he conceded.
Meatcoma
> Tripper
05/18/2016 at 12:28 |
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I have one requested. When that will be filled is any ones guess.
Cé hé sin
> Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
05/18/2016 at 12:32 |
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I’m typing this with a 3. Seems OK for what it is.
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Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Cé hé sin
05/18/2016 at 12:45 |
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I can't do it.
MUSASHI66
> Tripper
05/18/2016 at 12:53 |
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I hate them. Had one for a few weeks - well, a Surface 3. I hated the super high resolution on a 12" screen. I hated the “keyboard”. I really disliked the Windows issues on it with the DPI - it just wouldn’t work well with a USB 3.0 dock - DPI was screwed either on the dock or off the dock - I had to play with it every time I undocked (daily). That is more Windows than Surface issue though.
Unless you need a pen, I don’t understand the allure of a Surface over a Dell XPS13 or Latitude 12/14/15" laptops.
Thomas Donohue
> Tripper
05/18/2016 at 13:14 |
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Still using my Surface 2 (non pro) with the backlit type cover whenever I travel. Not the fastest or coolest, but works great as a tablet on the plane for reading and movies (the two position kickstand rules). The fact that it came with ‘built-in’ MS Office and Outlook can’t be beat (newer versions charge $99 a year for that now). Bought it refurb for $200 two years ago and added a bluetooth mouse. My ‘corporate’ laptop hasn’t left it’s docking station since.
At some point will look at a newer Pro 3 once the used prices come down.
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Tripper
> Nibby
05/18/2016 at 13:31 |
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Portability is a big factor, the user travels a lot. I still wouldn’t normally, but this person is one of very few people that get’s to say “I want x piece of tech” and I just order it.
random001
> Tripper
05/18/2016 at 13:32 |
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I have an SP4, and it is awesome. I only have the i5/8GB/256, but with a 128 GB SD, storage isn’t a problem, and it runs just about everything fine. Including matlab, solidworks, etc.
I don’t mind the SP$ keyboard, it’s better than the previous ones.
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Tripper
> MUSASHI66
05/18/2016 at 13:37 |
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Yea, I have to have a real keyboard. I’m docked most of the time so there is no reason for me to have one personally, I just want one to play with until the novelty wears off haha. We have a few XPS 13's, but mostly 14" 7000 series Latitudes and they are really all that anyone needs. I’m actually hoping to get his old precision workstation as I never take my work PC home.
Edit: Weird that you had trouble with a dock. I had 5 displays running with a super ghetto config. USB from surface to targus usb dock (2 video outs)>USB 3.0 from Targus dock to Amazon USB 3.0 hub>a USB 3.0 to HDMI adapter for monitor #3>mini display from surface to HDMI for monitor #4>plus the surface display.
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Tripper
> random001
05/18/2016 at 13:43 |
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That is how I would spec mine if I bought one, price climbs quickly on these for not much in the way of hardware
AndyG_UK
> Tripper
05/18/2016 at 13:43 |
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My partner has one, an i7 but just 8gb of memory with 256 ssd, he doesn’t use it as his main work machine (he’s got a pretty new Dell tower, i7, 32gb memory, gtx 780, lots of ssd’s etc at his office) but uses it for meetings, presentations, working from home connected to the Surface dock with a couple of 4k monitors. He loves it, much, much quicker and all round better than the i5 Surface 2 it replaced. He runs Visual Studio, Photoshop, various vm’s in HyperV etc. Only thing he doesn’t like is all the firmware update that keep messing it up.
It is a lovely device, the latest keyboard and pen for the 4 are much improved over the old ones as well.
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MUSASHI66
> Tripper
05/18/2016 at 14:10 |
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It was a windows DPI setting. Basically, it would look good on a dock, but really fuzzy when undocked. I would fix the DPI undocked, make it look good, but then it would look fuzzy when I dock it. It just got old after a while, and I could not find a permanent solution.
I prefer my Latitude E5550 with a physical dock.