surface rt is a tablet. surface 2 is a table. surface pro is a laptop. surface 2 pro is a laptop. All have touchscreens, a kickstand, and an optional keyboard.
The tablets use mobile windows rt 8.1. the laptops use full desktop windows 8.1
Which do i reccomend? none.
For a tablet. you want ios or android.
for a laptop, touchscreens are rather useless and the keyboard is not that good. And the surface pros are overpriced, if you are looking for a laptop, surface is not for you. If you want a tablet that has the functionality of a laptop, the surface pro is right for you.
I'm not looking for either, as i have a decent PC and a Kindle. Still, it trips my brain up to Jupiter and back. But still, I would probably get a Surface Pro for a laptop, as Chromebooks aren't the greatest, Macs have overkill prices, and Acers are just out of the question.
I'm not looking for either, as i have a decent PC and a Kindle. Still, it trips my brain up to Jupiter and back. But still, I would probably get a Surface Pro for a laptop, as Chromebooks aren't the greatest, Macs have overkill prices, and Acers are just out of the question.
but that doesn't cover all laptops.
Sager, msi, clevo, lenovo, and asus make great laptops.
For a tablet. you want ios or android.
for a laptop, touchscreens are rather useless and the keyboard is not that good. And the surface pros are overpriced, if you are looking for a laptop, surface is not for you. If you want a tablet that has the functionality of a laptop, the surface pro is right for you.
While I agree that the Microsoft-branded tablets are overpriced (and heavy!), I don't agree that touchscreens are useless for a laptop. I recently got an Acer Iconic W3 ($380ish, full Windows 8, light weight) and most of the time it feels like you're just using a tablet. Since it is full Windows, sometimes it feels a bit weird using your finger instead of a mouse and keyboard, but you get a tablet to be a tablet, not to replace your primary desktop computer.
While I agree that the Microsoft-branded tablets are overpriced (and heavy!), I don't agree that touchscreens are useless for a laptop. I recently got an Acer Iconic W3 ($380ish, full Windows 8, light weight) and most of the time it feels like you're just using a tablet. Since it is full Windows, sometimes it feels a bit weird using your finger instead of a mouse and keyboard, but you get a tablet to be a tablet, not to replace your primary desktop computer.
Mouse input was just a stopgap to make up for the fact that we didn't have touchscreens for a UI.
Or, to be precise- Touchscreens did not, until relatively recently, become cost-effective for consumer devices.
I really don't understand, the issues people have with touchscreens.
Consider a screen displaying a desktop, You want to activate an icon. Is it faster to grab a mouse, get your bearings on where it is on the screen, move it so that the pointer is over that icon, and clock the button- or is it faster to just press the icon with your finger on the screen itself?
The answer is number 2.
Right now the only real problem with touchscreens is not inherent in touchscreens but the fact that software is designed for mice. It's no different than when Mice were coming around and barely any programs actually used them, so they seemed like pointless gimmicks.
Or, to be precise- Touchscreens did not, until relatively recently, become cost-effective for consumer devices.
There is that, and also that we've started using proper capacitive touchscreens rather than those horrible non-functional resistive touchscreens.
I really don't understand, the issues people have with touchscreens.
To me it's just the fingerprint collection, but that's about it.
You have the (potentially) functions of over 50 "mouse buttons" or more with your hands and different gestures, which is a nice enough selling point in itself IMO.
They don't have a use for some things of course like games with mouse-look but otherwise, bring 'em on.
For me it would be the accuracy. You can be reasonably accurate with a touchscreen, but I'll still be much more precise with my mouse than with my fingers.
With a resistive touchscreen I am right there and agree 100% with you.
Agreed on the accuracy problem. I rarely, if ever, click the wrong place with a mouse, but it happens nearly every time I use a touchscreen. Perhaps it's just because I'm not an experienced touchscreen user (I don't have a smartphone), but I have an extremely difficult time closing browser tabs on my Acer Windows 8 tablet. It takes like 5 tries to just click the little X.
The tablets use mobile windows rt 8.1. the laptops use full desktop windows 8.1
Which do i reccomend? none.
For a tablet. you want ios or android.
for a laptop, touchscreens are rather useless and the keyboard is not that good. And the surface pros are overpriced, if you are looking for a laptop, surface is not for you. If you want a tablet that has the functionality of a laptop, the surface pro is right for you.
fm87!Sager, msi, clevo, lenovo, and asus make great laptops.
fm87!Mouse input was just a stopgap to make up for the fact that we didn't have touchscreens for a UI.
Or, to be precise- Touchscreens did not, until relatively recently, become cost-effective for consumer devices.
I really don't understand, the issues people have with touchscreens.
Consider a screen displaying a desktop, You want to activate an icon. Is it faster to grab a mouse, get your bearings on where it is on the screen, move it so that the pointer is over that icon, and clock the button- or is it faster to just press the icon with your finger on the screen itself?
The answer is number 2.
Right now the only real problem with touchscreens is not inherent in touchscreens but the fact that software is designed for mice. It's no different than when Mice were coming around and barely any programs actually used them, so they seemed like pointless gimmicks.
To me it's just the fingerprint collection, but that's about it.
You have the (potentially) functions of over 50 "mouse buttons" or more with your hands and different gestures, which is a nice enough selling point in itself IMO.
They don't have a use for some things of course like games with mouse-look but otherwise, bring 'em on.
fm87!http://www.dailytech.com/Apple+Patent+on+Touch+Typing+Multitouch+Upheld+Allows+Ban+on+Most+Androids/article33580.htm
http://gizmodo.com/5814430/apple-now-owns-the-patent-on-your-smartphones-touchscreen
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387401,00.asp
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/apple-granted-patent-on-capacitive-multitouch-displays/
fm87!fm87!Capacative? Not so much.