Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry
by pavlov on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:30PM
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After 16 years on MacBook Pros (and PowerBooks before that), I bought a Surface Book 2 earlier this year because the 2016 MBP 15" was such a lemon for me.
Like others have said, the Surface Book hardware is what I wish the 2016 MBP had been. I'm perfectly happy with the OS as well. Haven't seen BSODs or forced bloatware. My new work-provided MacBook Pro is more fickle with occasional wakeup problems. Battery life on the Surface Book 2 feels on par or better than the MBP.
The Linux subsystem works well enough for me. Today you can run unmodified Ubuntu binaries on Windows with zero effort -- this has been pretty mind-blowing because my mental image of Windows is mostly from XP and before.
But as some others also mentioned, Win32 terminal options are not that great. Terminals are still stuck in the old Windows days: tiny toolbars, lots of options in endless GUI menus, weird usability howlers hiding in the corners. The feel of running those Linux binaries isn't 100% up there with a Mac, even though I prefer Linux to Darwin. Here's a business opportunity for someone — a Windows terminal for us Mac refugees?
Like others have said, the Surface Book hardware is what I wish the 2016 MBP had been. I'm perfectly happy with the OS as well. Haven't seen BSODs or forced bloatware. My new work-provided MacBook Pro is more fickle with occasional wakeup problems. Battery life on the Surface Book 2 feels on par or better than the MBP.
The Linux subsystem works well enough for me. Today you can run unmodified Ubuntu binaries on Windows with zero effort -- this has been pretty mind-blowing because my mental image of Windows is mostly from XP and before.
But as some others also mentioned, Win32 terminal options are not that great. Terminals are still stuck in the old Windows days: tiny toolbars, lots of options in endless GUI menus, weird usability howlers hiding in the corners. The feel of running those Linux binaries isn't 100% up there with a Mac, even though I prefer Linux to Darwin. Here's a business opportunity for someone — a Windows terminal for us Mac refugees?