Surface laptop Pros and Cons

[gathena]

would you recommend?
what is pros and cons?

 

[Username92]

This was built to compete with Spectre, XPS, Zen Book, X1 Carbon. So the main benefits over these competitors, besides the obvious would be the following:
1. Fashionable, color choices
2. Trendy
3. Lots of Legacy ports
4. 3:2 aspect ratio
5. 3000x2000 resolution
6. All of the above for low starting price.

 

[Username92]

The major cons are the following:
1. No dedicated GPU option
2. No USB C, so no external GPU
3. Can't have cool color with higher end configurations
4. Proprietary power cord (ie no USB C)

 

[raqball]

This was built to compete with Spectre, XPS, Zen Book, X1 Carbon. So the main benefits over these competitors, besides the obvious would be the following:
1. Fashionable, color choices
2. Trendy
3. Lots of Legacy ports
4. 3:2 aspect ratio
5. 3000x2000 resolution
6. All of the above for low starting price.

I was looking at buying the Lenovo X1 Carbon (2017) and was ready to pull the trigger when I saw the MS announcement.. I deiced to get the Surface Laptop instead..

 

[Hadi Hawili]

The major cons are the following:
1. No dedicated GPU option
2. No USB C, so no external GPU
3. Can't have cool color with higher end configurations
4. Proprietary power cord (ie no USB C)

Seriously I was really excited about that laptop announcement, but I feel for the price you can get sooo much better specs than the surface laptop. As a student I rather pay that price and get a gaming laptop and keep it plugged somewhere. Plus windows 10S is like a Google chrome... Well you can get chrome laptops for so much cheaper with the same specs and same battery life.

 

[AlexKullmer]

You know you get to upgrade to Windows Pro for free all this year

 

[Zachary Boddy]

I think the design and Surface promise of quality are the real pros here. What you're going to have to deal with is the lack of USB Type-C and the limited options (colors, specs, etc.).