The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be

Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be by mettamage on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @04:37PM (#17411633)

How about stuff like defragmentation, Windows registry issues, malware, adware and all the other stuff I vaguely remember? 10 years ago, I used to be a power user at Windows before that (as a gamer/kid) but really though I forgot what time I needed to put into the laptop just to keep it up to performance.

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Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be by ufmace on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @05:17PM (#17411938)

Have you not used a Windows computer in 10+ years?

> defragmentation

No longer an issue. I'm honestly not up to date on why not, but nobody ever mentions it anymore.

> Windows registry issues

What issues? I haven't gone into the registry for anything in a long time.

> malware, adware

Not an issue as long as you run a modern browser and avoid going to sketchy websites and installing random things from them.

If you haven't used Windows since early XP, it's really worth another try. It's a whole lot better now.

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Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @05:24PM (#17411977)

A point to add about malware. Make sure your user account your use is a standard one and not an Administrator account. That goes a long way towards cutting down on potential malware.

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Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be by deergomoo on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @06:24PM (#17412390)

> No longer an issue. I'm honestly not up to date on why not, but nobody ever mentions it anymore.

SSDs, primarily. Depending on who you ask, defragging an SSD ranges between only slightly beneficial, totally pointless, and actively harmful.

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Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be by wtallis on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @08:25PM (#17413083)

> Depending on who you ask, defragging an SSD ranges between only slightly beneficial, totally pointless, and actively harmful.

Fragmentation will slow down your SSD. For non-server workloads, the SSD is very likely still plenty fast. Running a hard drive defragging program on your SSD will only address one of the two forms of fragmentation that SSDs are subject to, and thus will not help performance much. It will also unnecessarily burn through some of the SSD's limited write endurance, but that is almost never worth worrying about.

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Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be by jdmichal on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @06:10PM (#17412290)

Windows Vista started running defragmentation as a background process nightly. Then SSDs happened.

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Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be by ivan_gammel on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @05:13PM (#17411906)

Defragmentation is something from prehistoric ages of Windows (if I remember correctly, they made it automatic in Vista). Malware, adware etc are the same class of problems as unprotected sex: if you are careful, you are safe and will never see it. It's not a Windows "feature".

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Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be by moate on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @05:43PM (#17412077)

I've always felt this was just the law of large numbers: The world has more PC users running Windows, so people who are writing malware would be casting the widest net by attacking PCs running Windows and since the bad guy is also likely using/familiar with a PC running Windows.

The second the paradigm changes, the value equation changes for everyone involved.

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