Comments on: Surface Pro 3 – Portable desktop.

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By: windsorr

windsorr — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 07:55:17 +0000

Sounds like you are a die-hard desktop user. I am with you unless circumstance forces me to do otherwise. This device has had a meaningful impact on my productivity whilst on the road and I can see that there will be many other devices just like it. It runs all of my business systems including communications without any real problems meaning that the only real difference between being on the road and at the office 1) ethernet speed and ping time and 2) screen size. My entire business runs in the cloud.

The Intel Llama mountain will give a fannless product with the same power at 140g less in weight.

By: Adam Nealis

Adam Nealis — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 07:44:56 +0000

Maybe you are on to something here.

I have never liked craptops as I call them.

My first encounters were while working in IT support at a certain English business school in the mid ’90s. A guy in a suit would dump a large, practically cubic black plastic device on my desk and ask, in an American accent, “How do I get on Innernet?”

It would still be warm. Though the battery might have been near the end of its 30 minute life.

I still don’t know they are really switched off unless I have pulled out the battery pack.

20 years later I now have two. Both provided by my employer. One at home and the other at work. I still won’t use a craptop without an external monitor, keyboard and mouse. Ergonomics, performance, battery life and software still leave a lot to be desired.

If I can be convinced to use an S3 or some other device which apes it, that will be quite a triumph. They could parade me at evangelistic trade shows as a saved soul. For a reasonable fee of course…