seriously.
Wow, touched a nerve with the apple fanboys. A couple anonymous one-star retorts on the first post. (
OH NO, something MSFT!) How's AAPL doing these days? I have noticed the iPhone has gone to gold plating.
GOLD PLATING! - must signal the gilded age for Apple is here.
bling bling . . . bling bling
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Like Steve, I also own an ipad. And I also know the difference between a productivity device and a consumption toy. A WORK computer, iPad is not.
What I'm happy about here, is the paradigm shift. In the past, I used a workstation AND a travel tablet (or convertible) - files shared on SD cards. With the surface pro 2 it apparently does it all. It will run my needed 3-D engineering applications (pro/e, SolidWorks, computational fluid dynamics…) and will output with ease to my 2560x1600 monitor ("cinema display" for you fanboys.) - in fact it has the GPU strength to power two of those. (for reference, you would need 4 Hi-res ipads to get there. ..and it would be ugly)
And then there is USB 3.0 – dam that connection is fast; Even off of a spinning external drive. Aside; what gen' USB port does the ipad have? Oh, that's right, it doesn't have USB ports. But what about that USB Port/30-pin barnacle? Are those USB 3.0? - I just checked (no)
Anyway, looks like I no longer need a travel device
and a workstation. Keeping my fingers crossed that there is no show-stopper.
Just an aside, I didn't type this response. I'm using Microsoft's speech to text software. -it's part of the OS and doesn't rely on some lagging Siri connection.
All that said, I will reiterate my hesitance to go to Win 8.1. --it stripped out some functionality of Win7 that kept me from switching sooner. I'm trying to learn new ways with Win8.1. We'll see.