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I like that Microsoft is making an effort to capture the audience that wasn't impressed by Apple's MBP launch, but I can't get over their comparison chart. They compare the main screen of the Surface to the lower screen (touch bar) of the MBP. That's just a shady comparison. At least be honest.
The image on the top of the page seems to feature a 2nd gen macbook pro (the one before retina display). Hmm, a bit shady...
I've got a 2015 Macbook Pro and I'm sorely tempted to get a Surface when/if it breaks down. The detachable screen is a gamechanger, but it's still a bit small (12.3") for my taste.
https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msca/en_CA/pdp/Surface-...
This "switch from mac" furor is hilarious to me. In 3 years people will be saying "Remember how upset people were getting about losing the escape key?". This feels the same as Apple not supporting flash or microsd cards on iPhones. Everyone made a big stink about it at the time, and a few years down the road flash is dead and no one cares about microsd cards. It will be the same with USB C and dongles; in a few years…
I like that Microsoft is making an effort to capture the audience that wasn't impressed by Apple's MBP launch, but I can't get over their comparison chart. They compare the main screen of the Surface to the lower screen (touch bar) of the MBP. That's just a shady comparison. At least be honest.
What's interesting for me is that nowhere on the site, even when you compare, configure, or try to buy the Surface Book, is mentioned what kind of "i5" or "i7" you get (also for GPU). All you can see when you "configure" is something like "6th Gen Intel Core i7, 1TB SSD, 16GB RAM / dGPU"
The amount of times I have heard people say that a particular notebook is "Way" cheaper than a MacBook Pro only to point out to them they are comparing a dual core i7 to a quad core i7 is just ridiculous. When they then look at quad core i7 notebooks the prices become much closer if not end up being the same.
I like that Microsoft is making an effort to capture the audience that wasn't impressed by Apple's MBP launch, but I can't get over their comparison chart. They compare the main screen of the Surface to the lower screen (touch bar) of the MBP. That's just a shady comparison. At least be honest.
I don't believe that's the comparison they're making. It's trying (and failing) to say that the Surface has the higher screen resolution. It's not making a comparison to the touch bar at all.
But they are trying to make it look like they are comparing the two devices' screens. Definitely misleading.
Unfortunately, Apple's done such a good job of keeping me locked to their software ecosystem I cannot consider this, though I vastly prefer the Surface hardware. Even if I wasn't an iOS developer, my other two jobs are Audio Production/editing and Video Production/editing. While I could almost happily toss Final Cut out the window (we all know what a disaster the FCP7 -> FCPX transition was, and my friends in the ind…
You should probably start the transition off of Logic now, while it's still supported software.