What a bizarre conclusion at the end. Is it a Macbook alternative? Yes but no, because "Switching ecosystems is dicey business."
Tech journalist's reasons for the Surface not being a viable option are getting ridiculous. The SP1 apparently wasn't powerful enough as a laptop and didn't have the battery of a tablet. The SP2 was powerful enough with a longer battery, but it's hard to use full Windows in a touch device. The SP3 is powerful enough, long lasting battery enough, light enough, with a big enough screen to use via touch, but then "lapability" became a metric in articles. Now everything's great, but "switching ecosystems is dicey business".
It's strange the way goalposts keep getting shifted with each iteration. I switched completely to the MS ecosystem with the SP3 and it was easy.
Tech journalist's reasons for the Surface not being a viable option are getting ridiculous. The SP1 apparently wasn't powerful enough as a laptop and didn't have the battery of a tablet. The SP2 was powerful enough with a longer battery, but it's hard to use full Windows in a touch device. The SP3 is powerful enough, long lasting battery enough, light enough, with a big enough screen to use via touch, but then "lapability" became a metric in articles. Now everything's great, but "switching ecosystems is dicey business".
It's strange the way goalposts keep getting shifted with each iteration. I switched completely to the MS ecosystem with the SP3 and it was easy.