spaghettu t1_j43ao1j wrote on January 12, 2023 at 9:45 PM

Reply to comment by kurttheflirt in Apple might finally make a touchscreen Mac by No-Drawing-6975

After a decade-long year run, the surface pro still has less than 3% market share. I'm sure some people see value in it, but to me a touchscreen laptop is really nothing more than a nearly useless gimmick IMO. There obviously could be other reasons surface market share is low, but to me this proves that it's not enough of a novelty to win over most people.

submittedanonymously t1_j43djj8 wrote on January 12, 2023 at 10:03 PM

I have one from my office and didn’t know it was a touchscreen until someone else had to show me some routine on it. They’re the only person who has used the touch function on my device because otherwise it’s pointless in my role.

D_Doggo t1_j45q7ff wrote on January 13, 2023 at 10:11 AM

Surface isn't the only touch screen laptop though. Almost all other popular laptop makers have quite a few popular models with touch screens.

LittleBigMonet t1_j5l9uge wrote on January 23, 2023 at 8:28 PM

I agree wholeheartedly. And I feel like the failure can somewhat be attributed to Windows OS, which is lackluster to even be called a mobile OS. I personally recently got a Surface Laptop, and I only got it because I found it for super cheap. Their retail prices are too high for what they are - you cannot say that about Apple MacBooks because you don’t have a choice to pick any hardware and put OS on it. That said, I do think that the Surface devices are built very well. They look great. And for the most part, they work great…as laptops with a keyboard and a mouse or touchpad!!!!

I just can’t come to terms with calling Windows OS touch friendly / tablet friendly so adding that feature to a laptop is useless.

limache t1_j43jymy wrote on January 12, 2023 at 10:43 PM

I tried out a surface pro 3 before. I sold that and got back into Mac.

It was the one time I tried surface pro and I’ll never try it again.

It couldn’t run older windows program I think because it was a 4k display and it was basically shrunken down.

It was definitely overrated.