I'm looking @ getting a new laptop/tablet for graphics, images and
such. Anyone one here have any experience w/the equipment in the
title? Pros/Cons? Thx

Dan Gorsline.


Not me. I avoid Microsoft like the plague :-) The software is
proprietary. If your lap top breaks it is highly likely that you
will have to buy a new OS from Microsoft to fix it.  Linux is always
free for the download.

I keep an old Windows 7 around to run one or two programs that only
run on windows.

Android is a good tablet OS.

I do all my email on Linux and just about everything else for the
last 17 years. With 500,000 files the command line search in Linux
is instantaneous.

Paul Lamar


This may be anecdotal, but whether the Surface is a good fit for you
 depends on what you plan to do with it. I am attending University of
 Colorado currently and I have classmates that use them and love
them. I checked them out pretty thoroughly because I liked the
concept and decided against it and went for a laptop to supplement my
high performance Hal 9000 desktop. My decision and your mileage may
vary, is that, the Surface was too expensive and more importantly
wouldn't do the stuff I wanted it to.

If you want to do photo editing at a low rate, such as crop, re-size,
remove red eye etc. for personal use, it should do just fine. If you
want to do serious batch editing and involved work like what is
performed in Photoshop and the like, it doesn't have the resources:
processor, GPU, or RAM. However, the people that have them and use
them for the intended light work really seem to like them.They
provide a lot of features that other devices don't have. It's a
lightweight real computer with good battery life that can be used as
a tablet. If you just email, watch Netflix, read e-books and take
notes with it, you'll probably like it. Just make sure you are not
trying to tow the family 20 foot camper with a GEO Metro. What I'm
trying to say is evaluate your anticipated needs and if you can live
with Windows 10, you might really like it. Otherwise, possibly a
touchscreen laptop with the latest processor, max RAM and a better
GPU or even a desktop/touchscreen that you can easily upgrade/update
with a supplementing tablet or even Ipad may be more up your
alley...

/r Alan MullenColorado

No experience except for playing with one in a store, where it seemed to
be quite slow in responding to what I wanted to do. If you already like
the Windows 10 experience, including the concept that you will rent the
"free" software rather than own it, the Surface will be OK. I'm with
Paul, my heavy-duty computing is Linux although I have a Win7, an XP and
a Mac machine under my desk to support various programs that need them.

My preferred laptop for use on the road, quick email etc. is a MacBook
Air, any vintage from about 2011 on. My opinion is that there are too
many unknowns with Microsoft's Windows 10 business plan to tie a
purchase to it.

David Josephson

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