In consistently surprised that bezels are still a topic of conversation. Dell has been literally years ahead of everyone else in this regard, with everyone else still playing catchup. Excellent screens quality and bezels that just get out of the way. Even now the best offerings I see feel like compromises. Perhaps a dream laptop might exist which is a combination of every manufacturers strengths in one.
If it's anything like the previous Surface machines, the BIOS will not have the option to turn Secure Boot off. That makes it much harder to get Linux on there, too hard for most people.
Nice to see it didn't go the Macbook way of losing main ports over "sleekness". It still has less ports than I would prefer though (there's only one USB-A port and no HDMI ports), but not bad considering its size.
the reason why we’re running mac’s is the software not the hardware though, and microsoft’s software is going downhill while macOS is on the up and up.
If I had to run Linux as my main desktop again, for some reason, and it were an option, I would legit pay real money to have access to Apple’s various 1st party programs and tools on it. They’re so, so good.
The reason I am not using a mac is the OS. If there was a fully working Linux for it the hardware is fantastic. I can only hope snapdragon x will get proper and official support cause many of the laptops with it I've seen tick most of the boxes in my wishlist.
Ehh I wouldn't go that far. I still vastly prefer it to Windows or desktop Linux, but I am growing very tired of the change-for-the-sake-of-change redesigns that are typically worse than what came before it. Half-baked changes that take years to be cleaned up, if they ever do. Though, that seems to be common across all software these days.
It also requires a lot of little utilities for stuff that should really be built into the system (window management until Sequoia arrives, making third-party mice usable).
The hardware is better than it's ever been though.
Bad ui responsiveness, inaccurate and janky touch controls, slow to launch programs. Miserable to use, felt more like a (relatively solid) competitor to netbook-class devices than serious laptops, or iPads.
Not sure about the SP3, but my SP4 (which, btw, had no problems running Linux) was afflicted by the so called "flickergate", and I didn't manage to replace it. Since then, I sworn off any Microsoft hardware. Their software and OS, I had sworn these off years before, which makes these devices even less appealing...
