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runqvist on 31 October 2012
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superchunk said:
runqvist said:

Of course I am pro windows, it just is the best. Do you disagree?

Google docs isn't as good as ms office. I am no expert with it, but when I have edited my office documents with it, it has messed them up. Also it did not have all the functions which ms office has. Just carbage compared to ms office.

Hi, I am a pc gamer and I am considering it. Your logic fails.

Of course I am nitpicking, as I said all the videos don't work. In fact I said  "there are always some lame codec which won't work on any player or it works with software decoding and is choppy as hell". Now you are talking about mass market stuff, which proves my point. Carbage, can't play all the videos.

Do that, test the streams and tell me did you get all of them working. I'll be waiting.

Yes, surface pro is just that. Complete package, unlike other tablets on this thread.


No, I don't think Win is the best OS. I'm actively looking to replace it over time as it becomes less dominate just as Chrome has passed IE in browsing and Android in the mobile sector. Win has lots of flaws and MS is especially a price gouger.

GDocs will do anything anyone needs to do who from students of all ages to small businesses. Finance, marketing, large business with crazy excel charts will of course need the more robust Excel or Word. Additionally, of course going between the two will have oddities in changes as its trying to emulate Word/Excel. However, working solely in one or the other provides no loss. (I use Gdocs for everything outside of work and know I could use it all for any items I do at work, but I don't make those decisions on what apps to use)

You're a PC gamer and looking at a tablet that has a low-end mobile i5 dual core cpu, 4GB ram, and a low-end gpu? really?

videos... file types that you can't get to work? (outside of flash since Android 4)

I'll get back to you later tonight on the streaming.

SurfacePro is not a complete package. Its a low-end laptop in a tablet casing at 2x - 3x the price.

I see. May I inquire which operating system you consider as best?

Google docs does not do what anyone needs, not for every small business or every student. That is just a fact. Yes, it is a fault of emulation. Too bad that ms office is the dominant office suite, which means that there will be a lot of emulating. When it does not work, google docs is useless.

I am a pc gamer and some more! I have 2 desktop pc:s and one of them is actually a pretty decent computer. In fact it would be a fair guess that there are few users on this site who happen to have such a device. Are you aware that there are plenty of games which run quite fairly with such specs?

Almost all of my 3gp videos do not work at all, some older divx codecs have problems playing at all/with sound. At least some if not all nero codecs do not work at all. Few hd WMV codecs play choppily. Most of those are videos from our clients or my own old home videos.

It is a tablet which run all the windows programs, it also can be used as a laptop. I'd say that it is the complete package.