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I see the vote so far is unanimous on iPad - any folks have opinions of the Surface lineup as well vs the iPad?


We've got surface pro 7s at work. Pretty solid. I like the fact that it has both USB-C and USB-A. That means you can hook it up to a 4K screen easily enough and still attach whatever old school USB-A dongles required.

It is a full windows OS though so the temptation is to use it like one...and it does grind to a halt if you open enough big spreadsheets etc and run out of RAM.

Also bought the surface pen that goes with it. Pretty decent - but I'm no artist so hard to evaluate


The pencil on the non pro iPad is not as good as the Surface or iPad Pros. There are latency benchmarks.


For some time I used a Samsung Galaxy Book 12 (similar computer to a surface tablet computer).

For my use cases it was definitely the wrong choice. The tablet is quite heavy, so use as a tablet was very limited for me and due to the keyboard design it is also bad as a notebook.

I think the integrated stand of the Surface would at least allow you better use as a drawing tablet when you detach the keybord.

My sweet spot is a decent Notebook plus an iPad Mini for Notetaking (Goodnotes) and drawing.


The iPad that you can get for $299 has great battery life, performance and it always works.

There is no Surface that can come close to this. Firstly because Windows is a nightmare compared to iOS. Imagine giving a Windows machine to your age-old mother-in-law? It wouldn’t last a month. As a professional user I want the same stability and ease for myself.




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