Should I sell my iMac and use my Surface Book as a desktop?

[Windows Central Question]

Ive had my iMac for 3 years with a windows partition, but i've run out of space, the fans are driving me INSANE, the windows side's sound doesnt work and I do a bit of light gaming so I'm just getting pretty sick of Mac's lack of performance in the area. I have a shiny new surface book which i adore but its an i7 and I'm sure it could do much more than play my Netflix shows. I bought the Surface Dock, put my iMac on sale, got a Samsung 4K display and the Microsoft keyboard/mouse. While I still have the things in the box and they are returnable I would like opinions, am I making the right choice here? I have been slowly transitioning over the past years from everything apple into now everything windows starting with the SP2 that replaced my MB Air (keeping my iPhone and watch though) my work laptop runs windows as well and everything is beautifully integrated to one drive. Thus, I've really no need for my iMac anymore other than it looks pretty in my room. Is the SB powerful enough to support the 4k, and my light gaming? Since I'm pretty sure it is because I already tried it and it runs league at native res and medium graphics with 100fps (a tiny bit of lag). Is it worth ditching my mac to get a 4k screen and run it with my Surface?

 

[Garry Williams1]

Take it outside and set it on fire!

 

[zipro]

Take it outside and set it on fire!

Which one?

 

[zipro]

Considering that you still haven't taken your new stuff out of the box, I'd say you're not ready to make the switch to Windows 10. Which is fine - neither am I. I was planning on replacing my 15" rMBP with a SB, but have since reconsidered. I need a Windows laptop because I teach CS and our school uses Windows exclusively. So I'm keeping the rMBP for home use and to prep my other lessons and the SB (sold the first one because I thought I'd stop doing CS, but was forced to continue, so I'll buy another one next week) for taking along to school.

My advice to you: if you don't need a Windows computer for work, I'd sell both the iMac and the SB and get a Retina iMac with an SSD. I had one of those before and they're whisper quiet and blazingly fast.

 

[DCW1000]

First, it is perfectly reasonable to consider using a Surface Book with dock and adjunct monitor/mouse/KB as a desktop. It is more than powerful enough.

BUT: I am having horrible problems running a high-res display from the Book. I recently got an Ultrawide LG monitor that simply cannot be forced to display at its stated max res of 2560 x 1080; instead it falls back to 1920 x 1080. I would suggest you have somebody in a dark blue T-shirt at a Microsoft store demonstrate a 4K monitor running properly on a Book connection before committing to the purchase.

My 34" LG runs perfectly as an extended display on both my four-year-old Surface Pro and my two year old Surface Pro 3. I have no idea why the Book can't do it. My best guess is that the driver for the Intel HD 520 in the Book is not ready for prime time, while the driver for the older Intel HD 4400 in the earlier Surfaces is bulletproof -- or to be more cautious, has not yet failed in my experience.