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Re:MacBook Pro by rashkov on Thursday October 27, 2016 @04:39PM (#12809811)
He is directly rebutting one person's opinion, not coming up with a talking point after consulting with a survey of people's reactions to the new announcements. Who's to say it's not the parent that was mistaken?

Using the Surface as a tablet for drawing has been a huge use-case for visual artists from day 1. Just see this positive review of the original Surface Pro by Gabe from Penny Arcade: https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2013/02/22/the-ms-sur...

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Re:MacBook Pro by chadgeidel on Thursday October 27, 2016 @04:57PM (#12810038)
And his follow-up post yesterday on the Studio https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2016/10/26/the-surfac...
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Re:MacBook Pro by brazzledazzle on Thursday October 27, 2016 @05:21PM (#12810304)
That's a pretty good endorsement.
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Re:MacBook Pro by danudey on Thursday October 27, 2016 @05:55PM (#12810629)
I know several artists who bought the Surface for exactly this reason and found it disappointing. The hardware in the Surface Pro is pretty mediocre unless you spend a lot of money on it (at which point a Cintiq Companion becomes an intriguing idea if you don't know what Wacom's customer support is like).

Most of those artists ended up buying iPad Pros to replace them with.

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