In my initial post, I said "I'm sure there are some artists who'd use it but that's a specialty market that won't generate many sales." So I understand the drawing/artist people.
Seems like they could've just included it with every Pro 3 at that price.
LIke a giant bucket of cold water... Obviously, this isn't going to be such a deal breaker for those who aren't running stuff like Sketchbook on this thing every day. And I love how responsive it seemed to be... It's almost perfect in every way but this.
I need this now in my life the type cover is a very good laptop keyboard.
As a tablet, it's also one the largest and heaviest tablets on the planet.
As a laptop, it's also got the one of the poorest performance/price ratios
There's the advantage, really. But does the price justify being able to do that? You're not gonna be gaming much in class, and once you get home most people will prefer a standard PC or laptop to game on. Maybe for that long road trip or flight? I just don't really see needing both a tablet and PC in one device.
I realize there is a market for this device, otherwise they wouldn't keep making it, and more power to those who get real efficient value out of it for their dollar. I'd just rather get a light laptop and pay 3/4 to 1/2 the price.As a tablet, it's also one the largest and heaviest tablets on the planet.
As a laptop, it's also got the one of the poorest performance/price ratios
There's the advantage, really. But does the price justify being able to do that? You're not gonna be gaming much in class, and once you get home most people will prefer a standard PC or laptop to game on. Maybe for that long road trip or flight? I just don't really see needing both a tablet and PC in one device.
I just think when it comes to a tablet's greatest advantages over laptops: size, weight, and portability, it fails miserably. And when it comes to a PC's greatest advantages over tablets: computing power and performance/price ratio, it fails miserably. It excels in power compared to other tablets because there's really a PC in there, and it excels in size compared to other laptops because it's all crammed into a gigantic heavy tablet.
Anyway, didn't mean to pick on your post specifically. You just had all the points I wanted to address so neatly laid out
It's a sexy device though, I gotta hand it to them.
As someone that uses SP2 as my everyday machine I agree.
I don't think they are going to charge users to update from 8.x to the next 8.x or 9, or whatever they call it. We live in a software world where it's expected that you get all the updates and I think it's probably a big goal for MS to get people updating their OS version much faster than in the past. That's always been an issue for them.
Uh, unless another bluetooth accessory is used, would that even be compatible with the older models?
This great news.http://blog.surface.com/2014/05/chocolate-peanut-butter-surface-pro-3-adobe-photoshop/
- You can now take better advantage of Surface Pro 3s touch and pen capabilities. Pinch and zoom with your fingers or pan using two fingers on the screen.
- You can zoom and pan or zoom and rotate at the same time by coming gestures.
- The touch targets and the size of the UX icons are 200% larger than the previous version of Photoshop CC.
YESSSSS. So I can get a Surface 1 for cheap and finally use photoshop properly hopefully
If the reactions from this thread are anything to go by, for serious artists, I'd say no.
