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Review: Light, compact, cool and fast - The seller despatched
promptly and it arrived as expected. Bought this laptop to
replace my 10 year old MacBook Pro, on which I was running
bootcamp Windows. Similar spec, 32Gb RAM and 1TB hard drive. As
an aside, the MacBook cost the same in 2015 as this one in 2025,
cumulative inflation, according to government figures, has been
41% in that time, so you can pretty much guarantee the real
figure is more like 80%. So this tech equipment is much cheaper
in real terms than it used to be. Although the screen size is the
same, 15", this Windows Surface laptop is in a far more compact
package and much, much lighter. The MacBook ran hot, touching the
area around the keyboard was very hot to touch and the fans were
constantly running and quite loudly. With this machine, I've only
heard the fan come on once, and quietly at that - and I'm
probably what would be described as a power user, I use it as a
development machine so it's working hard all the time. The
keyboard and trackpad are as good, if not better than the Mac -
I've got my Delete key back(!) as well as Home, End, Page Up and
Page Down keys which the Mac annoyingly lacked. I was a little
dubious about the Snapdragon ARM processor, but the advantages
are clear, cool running and superior battery life. There are a
few apps that are built for the processor, but standard x64 apps
run perfectly well in emulation mode. You wouldn't know that they
aren't running natively. So, all in all, really pleased with the
machine, it's exceeded my expectations, very happy with it.
Review: Where are my 24 disks to install Windows?? (not a tech
review) - Somehow I miss those good ol' days when I had to set
aside a whole weekend to activate a new PC. I was never quite
sure whether it would be ready for work on Monday. I have, and
have had, several Macs and have been running Windows 11 on a
VMware virtual machine (Intel MacBook Pro) for a while. I was
proud to be an early adopter of Apple stuff (from eMac onwards)
but I think they have lost their edge - from a software and PC
perspective. I will, however, never (say never) give up on my
iPhone or Watch. So, I made the radical decision to switch back
to my roots - native Windows, this time on a Microsoft machine (I
used to be a Thinkpadder). Well - I'm happy (save for having a
free weekend to do some gardening). Build quality, keyboard,
processing power and battery are all excellent. Great display
(remember those days when you bought a new laptop and the thing
you dreaded most was how many dead pixels you would find on the
first boot-up?) - Oh, yes, and it's a touch screen. Works really
well too - when I remember that I can use my fingers or stylus to
poke at it. I installed Visio 2016 - Microsoft retained my
licence keys, which is another bonus. The setup process
automatically configured the HP printer settings (along with many
other settings) from a copy it took of my previous Windows VM.
Couldn't believe it at first - had to print a document to verify.
In summary: I feel like I've just come home from a long trip
away.
