Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2 and Surface Earbuds

Re:Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2 and Su... by zozbot234 on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @12:39PM (#23093129)

The Surface RT was a crappy, closed device. You can put Linux on just about any Baytrail- or Cherrytrail-based device now (used to be a huge pain), and with a decent amount of RAM and GNOME3 on Wayland it's actually a very intuitive and productive tablet experience. Even the windowing UI is just as intuitive as Windows 8 if not more so: you click on an "Activities" overview as opposed to a start button, but the rest is pretty much the same.

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Re:Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2 and Su... by nxc18 on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @12:50PM (#23093296)

I don’t really see how any of that is relevant.

Surface RT was running underpowered Tegra with 2GB ram and still does 60fps on the entire desktop/Start experience.

Have you used the Windows 8 multitasking interface recently?

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Re:Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2 and Su... by zozbot234 on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @12:58PM (#23093424)

Tegra has a good focus on graphics, so it's no surprise that it could do 60fps animations on the Windows 8 start screen. Nice eyecandy, I suppose. And 2GB RAM will still run pretty much anything a Surface RT user might care about, except the modern web of course.

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