Recent content by Andrew G1

The key here is "early adopter experience." One of the reasons CR stopped recommending the Surface brand was the fact that Microsoft had only recently started making hardware. Was the OP expecting very high reliability from an "early adopter experience"? Also - and please don't take this the...

The problems with Windows Store start with the app itself. It's a mess. Half the time it won't even fully download a product page. Customers won't buy anything they can't even see. Utterly ridiculous. And I'm a big booster of the Windows ecosystem and most of the software on my laptop is from...

Try Plumbago. It can help straighten your handwriting if it's shaky. Actually, OneNote (the Store version) does some smoothing, too, but it's not as aggressive. Good luck!

I'm not a parent but I'd say just focus on the things that she needs in her life - social and otherwise. Other than Facetime (lol...) it shouldn't be a problem. Great to see good results for your kid! Basic desktop skills are kind of important for, you know, having a job ...

In all honesty if I were you I'd just spring for the Surface Pro i5. The i5 is clearly more powerful than both the m3 and the Pentium Gold, but it isn't as powerful as you think. You can find an i5 Pro for something like $800 US, and if you're on a budget, pick up an old Surface Pro 4 keyboard...

No, really, the tablet experience on Windows 10 needs a hell of a lot of work. Well, maybe not a hell of a lot. Maybe just a few native edge gestures, like the ones from Win8/8.1. Without something like that, my Surface is basically useless as a touch tablet (though amazing as a pen tablet...

Apple is a very, very successful luxury brand. That's not really knocking it, but it means that people aren't buying iPhones for practical reasons. A $250 Motorola phone will do wonders, but it's not cool enough for many people.

Idunno, dude, I just buy stuff because it works for me. I don't care which "genius" made it, or is selling it to me. If an iPhone is what's best for you after WP, go for it.

Dude that was super interesting. Thanks!

Idunno, a cheap, functional, robust Windows tablet that's effectively a cheaper, smaller version of the Surface Pro sounds perfect for front-line workers and retail, school boards, and students who want a portable all-in-one (note taking, Word and Excel, various software needed for college...

Flight status? Package delivery tracking? Commuting times and routes? Hell, a consistent weather experience? Cortana can't do any of it. To be fair, Google still struggles with some of these things. (Um, Google? I don't drive, so stop giving me driving navigation.) But whoever is developing...

I run things like Matlab (a huge resource hog for statistical software) and R but also do some hobby photography and graphic design. I have a Surface Pro (2017) i5/4GB/128 and I would have gotten the 8GB if I had known how bogged down things can get with only 4GB. If I were you I'd get the 8GB...

I'm a hobby photographer with a Surface Pro (2017). Photographers more serious than me should be aware that every single Surface Pro (2017) model I've laid eyes on has a uniform band of light bleed across the bottom of the screen. It appears to be a manufacturing error but MS does not want to...

I wouldn't hold my breath on a new, updated Surface Pro. There are no indications that one is coming soon (correct me if I'm wrong) and Panos Panay is always saying that he'll only introduce or update a new Surface device if it represents a big change from previous models. So I don't think a...

I live in the US and have a Windows PC and an Android phone. Cortana syncs my messages across devices, so that's good. And sometimes I ask Cortana on my desktop for the weather verbally, which works fine. I also like the little Easter eggs, like "tell me a joke." But that's about it. Cortana has...