Re:Microsoft announces Surface Go
by lmm on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @10:35AM
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I didn't used to think I wanted a single device, but not worrying about synchronising documents between different computers makes life easier. Even just little things like getting home and wanting to finish reading the web pages I was reading on the train at my desk are nicer when it's the same computer rather than tab syncing - and for most kinds of files I might be working on, syncing is less advanced than in the web browser.
> In living room, an iPad for Netflix, light games and light web surfing while in sofa. I don't want Windows for this purpose either.
The current windows UI for this is alright, and there's a decent number of light touch games around. It's not quite as smooth as a dedicated tablet UI, but it's close enough that the pros of single-device outweigh the cons IME.
> Kids room - gaming computer. Windows. Version 7. It's good at this. Best device for powerful gaming.
The surface book I mentioned is actually the 15" surface book 2, which handles every game I've thrown at it. I used to use a desktop, then a luggable 18" gaming laptop, but if the gaming power can be packed into a device that can also function as my travel laptop then why not? And for some modern development/computing tasks you want the same kind of powerful GPU you want for gaming, so it makes sense to use the same device for both.
> My work room. Linux laptop and a MacBook air. The macbook is great for banking and other tasks where Linux can't do it. Otherwise I enjoy Linux as my daily work horse.
I used to use linux and my home server still runs FreeBSD, but almost all the things I actually want to run - IDEs, rendering tools - are available on windows. The current "ubuntu/debian on windows" is good enough for the times when I want to play with some linux-only tool. I could use a different device with a different interface but why make things harder for myself?
> In living room, an iPad for Netflix, light games and light web surfing while in sofa. I don't want Windows for this purpose either.
The current windows UI for this is alright, and there's a decent number of light touch games around. It's not quite as smooth as a dedicated tablet UI, but it's close enough that the pros of single-device outweigh the cons IME.
> Kids room - gaming computer. Windows. Version 7. It's good at this. Best device for powerful gaming.
The surface book I mentioned is actually the 15" surface book 2, which handles every game I've thrown at it. I used to use a desktop, then a luggable 18" gaming laptop, but if the gaming power can be packed into a device that can also function as my travel laptop then why not? And for some modern development/computing tasks you want the same kind of powerful GPU you want for gaming, so it makes sense to use the same device for both.
> My work room. Linux laptop and a MacBook air. The macbook is great for banking and other tasks where Linux can't do it. Otherwise I enjoy Linux as my daily work horse.
I used to use linux and my home server still runs FreeBSD, but almost all the things I actually want to run - IDEs, rendering tools - are available on windows. The current "ubuntu/debian on windows" is good enough for the times when I want to play with some linux-only tool. I could use a different device with a different interface but why make things harder for myself?