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Microsoft Discontinues iMac Rival Surface Studio 2

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Re: Microsoft Discontinues iMac Rival Surface Studio 2

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post #5

Surface Studio introduction from 2017, still looks amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-VvFlwsWic

Having used one for about 18 months put me off the entire surface lineup. It sure was good looking though.

What put you off?

Re: Microsoft Discontinues iMac Rival Surface Studio 2

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post #4

Microsoft has terrible pen technology for artists, still jittery slow lines years after it hurt the first Studio and other surface products.

This is sad consider they have been doing research on this for 15 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4

Re: Microsoft Discontinues iMac Rival Surface Studio 2

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post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having used one for about 18 months put me off the entire surface lineup. It sure was good looking though.

What put you off?

I used the Microsoft Surface as my daily driver for years, the finish rubbed off in the first few uses and looked terrible, the screen broke as well. They do look beautiful and it was pretty fast.

Re: Microsoft Discontinues iMac Rival Surface Studio 2

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Microsoft's problem has never been their hardware. You can argue their Surface and Surface pro line up is far far a better feat of engineering (stuffing a full blown desktop grade processor into a mobile tablet) than any iPad Pro. However, their achilles heel has always been their software. Though Windows has improved a lot over the years, its shitty data collection and privacy practices and changing around of UI elements randomly, unpredictable updates that may kill entire industries and bring the world to a halt [1] are actually what is stopping people from adopting their hardware in my experience.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_ou...

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