Many of these things don't sound specifically wrong. Just heavily entrenched cultural artifacts that needed a catalyst for change to occur. Which, I, personally, don't mind.

Salad bar and sleeper train is pure evil.

And did the stores lower their prices?

Groceries have taxes? I assumed basic groceries were zero rated everywhere.

Heck, my surface pro 3 makes a great Linux machine. Still tweaking it but the touchscreen works just fine with Mint, so even an old one could probably do just fine.

I remember when the first Surface released and Gabe from Penny Arcade was like "wtf this is better than iPad for drawing. why aren't they advertising this aspect of it?"

I don't know if that's still true, but I always tucked it in the back of my mind when I was looking for drawing tablets.

As long as you don't mind the webcam not working, which except for the oldest models seemed to be a constant with the Surface tablets.

Edit: i mean in Linux, as these camera modules are near impossible to support.

My Go 3 with fedora runs like a charm

but isn't the memory on the Neo on the same die as the processor?

Not actually on the same die, but in the same package, stacked on top using TSMC's Integrated Fan-Out Package on Package (InFO-PoP).

So the memory still needs to be sourced from memory manufacturers, sent to TSMC, and then have TSMC package it all together in a single package. It's unclear whether they had locked up this supply at pre-AI prices, though. The underlying A18 Pro chip/package was annoinced and launched about 18 months ago, so if they had the manufacturing pipeline set up for that they might have kept the contractual rights to continue buying memory at the old prices.

I honestly feel that's less of a diss on the Neo and more of a statement on how overpowered phones are now, especially considering the limitations placed on mobile OSes.

Some of the same hardware, yes.

But also - the CPU/GPU in the iPhones are insane.

Compared against a bunch of laptops in the price class from dell, HP, etc and the single-core performance is like 50% higher on the iPhone CPU in the macbook neo.

I can't wait for more ARM CPUs that hit these specs for a reasonable price.

Not exactly, it's a binned version. 5 GPU cores instead of the 6 on the iPhone. Still, it's pretty impressive for what it's able to do.

Seems you let you bias take over rather than actually knowing why you’re talking about.

Huh? The CPU has still one of the highest single core performance benchmarks on the market, especially considering it's fanless. The keyboard is also really good as they got rid of the butterfly in 2019, it is unfortunate, it has no backlight, and RAM is limited to 8 gigabytes. Otherwise, a good deal with how good the screen and speakers are, and solid aluminum build quality

Looks quite the opposite to be fair

I might get hate for this,but Windows 8 was the perfect operating system for this device. As soon as I upgraded to 10, none of the fun touch screen stuff was there anymore and I stopped using it.

I had a Surface Pro 4 when I went to university. I always said if it wasn't for the note taking there was no way I would recommend it. It had all kinds of software issues and eventually it just straight died while I was studying one day. I don't think I've ever had a computer die like that, eventually they just get replaced by being obsolete.

The surface actually looked pretty cool when it first came out. To me, at least. Times have changed tho, and windows has leapt in the shitter.

Fisk must be a major shareholder in Microslop.

It's like a better iPad in a way, since you could run full-scale desktop programs on it, and use it like a desktop.

I wouldn't be too surprised if things like surfaces were one of the reasons why Apple seems to be making a push to try and make the iPad functional as a computer on its own.

"Only problem" is quite a stretch. Those devices are borderline unrepairable.

I can think of two reasons, but I can't think of any for putting it on a tablet

install the terminal version of claude code and ask it to configure your computer for you. you might think I'm joking until you do this

I bought a thinkpad on eBay and it surprised me by being a touch screen version and it just kind of gets in the way you pick up the laptop to move it and you're clicking the mouse all over the place. i disabled it after drawing about 4 cocks

a friend of mine sold me his semi-new Surface Laptop Go (the original model), and for 400€ it's a super cool touch screen laptop, using Gnome is super slick, and I am fine to be restricted at 250gb ssd/8gb ram.

but paying it more than double the price would be insane imho

I work for an org with ~1700 Surface Laptop 7 ARM deployed. They are actually really nice. Managing them with Intune is a breeze (including BIOS management), and Windows ARM is actually getting 3rd party app support now (Thanks, Apple!)

Yes, yes. Microslop, I know. But we are talking end user computing here.