Recent content by dkstrauss

Good news for those of us that love the Surface Go form factor but cringe at its performance and battery life. What I have wanted since the 11" iPad Pro was introduced was a Windows device that size with a real desktop operating system. When docked you can use it as a desktop but the ultimate...

What's really frustrating is that Apple somehow gets the vendors to write drivers to Apple's ARM based silicon, yet those same vendors (some of the biggest - Canon, HP, Fujitsu) just tell MS to go but a stump...

Why doesn't anyone discuss driver support (lack of) with these Windows ARM devices. For example, there is no driver support for ANY standalone scanner, and the scanner support for multifunction printers is primitive at best. A lot of finger point here - with Microsoft telling me to contact the...

And how is this better than right-clicking on the application icon in the task bar and opening your most recent file from the pop-up list? Seems to be a lot of Mac envy around here lately, but I understand. MS is LUCKY Apple is so stubborn and refuses to port MacOS to the iPad Pro - otherwise...

I have a Surface Pro 11 with Windows 11 Pro Ver. 10.0.26100 Build 26100. Neither my Fujitsu Scan 500 nor my Canon ImageFormula R40 are recognized by the OS (even after manual driver installation). I have been scouring the web for several months now trying to find ANY stand-alone scanner that...

Where does this leave us ARM pioneers - I love my Surface Pro 11, but if this comes to the Surface Pro line, why do I have to put up with annoying inconveniences (no standalone scanners; Adobe software; etc.) and just jump ship to Lunar Lake - the scary part would be ending up an ARM orphan...

I have the X Elite, 16gb/512gb (upgraded to 2tb Corsair TLC). I am using it with the OWC Thunderbolt 4 dock with two older 4k/60hz Samsung U32J59x monitors with no issues (knock on wood). I was using this dock and configuration with the M1 Max MacBook Pro I replaced with the Surface Pro 11. No...

I would LOVE to have a Surface Go size (at least 11" screen) with the Plus, 16gb ram, replaceable SSD, and two USB 4 ports (no need for MS connector). It would be even better with the Slim Pen storage tray on the keyboard. This WOULD BE the killer device when connected to a dock on your desktop...

Daniel - great review. However, could you speak to the potential impact of Lunar Lake coming this fall? It seems to me that if Intel is even close to their efficiency claims, won’t this kill ARM? Why would users risk any incompatibilities, and why would developers use their limited resources, to...

You’re welcome. Since you can’t recognize a security nightmare if it bit you in the xxx no need for me to give you the (much more) than 10 point list. Safer to pull than to face liability claims at this point.

I am really amazed at the vitriolic defense of Microsoft in these comments. Zac's article is spot on, and it is FOREMOST a case of trust of Microsoft. If you lived through the introduction of MS Edge, when it reset all your defaults to Edge; you'd reset Chrome, Adobe, etc. as your defaults, and...

The highlighted portion of your comment caught my eye. Even with my Surface Pro 8 LTE, with its lowly i5, hot bagging never ended, and during heavy sessions of the usual mix of Office 365 productivity applications, Adobe Acrobat Pro, and Chrome its fans would whine as heat built up to the point...

In this new age of "AI everywhere" 8gb of ram seems skimpy on either platform. Particularly when Apple and MS charge an outrageous premium for ram upgrades. I was told by both that now the ram is soldered on (or even part of the SOC) it's not the same as buying sticks in the "good old days." At...

I assume this is only for EU country users?

Has Microsoft already decided to kill off the Surface line? The reason I ask is that one of the first signs of a product being discontinued is service rot, and Microsoft Complete has become a nightmare for users. It has been offloaded to a call center and it is nearly impossible to get a service...