Battery life on surface is much worse than macbooks.Īll this being said, i would happily take these downsides, even if they can be a little irritating, im focusing that mainly on the awful trackpad on the type cover 2 and the pointlessly few amount of angles the kickstand goes to (Wow, 2 angles?! What an innovation!) OS X is also more stable and less prone to crashes, again, in my experience.Ĥ. OS X (in my opinion) is a much prettier operating system.ģ.

The hardware is not as polished: the keyboard on the type cover, the kick stand, the track pad (especially), they just dont have quite the same precision and polish as macbooks do, though apple are known for brilliantly designed hardware like this.Ģ. The pen is really good for note taking.Ĭons: (Bear in mind, i had a macbook for 4+1/2 years and have had a surface pro 2 for about a month)ġ. Having a touch screen and digitizer is a brilliant advantage that apple likely wont innovate with for a few years yet.ĥ. Gaming is much better on surface than pretty much any mac laptopĤ. Windows 8 has some cool features that OS X doesnt, eg: the multitasking by splitting the screen, more flexibility generally.ģ. The hardware design is pretty much just as pretty, even though Apple is renowned for good looking hardware, the surface devices do also look very nice.Ģ. These are some for/against(s) for switching from apple laptops to surface:ġ. Anyway, there are a few things that someone like us will experience when moving between platforms. The Surface Pro 2 is a brilliant little machine, however it does end up more expensive than the Macbook airs im pretty sure, however it should be more capable with tasks that require graphics usage and such, i would hope. I moved from a late '09 unibody white macbook, so im in a similar boat to you.

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