Technology & Social Media Surface Pro 4 or iPad Pro?

I found the free AVG one to be better than McAfee.
I've got Avast now.

 

I have a Surface Book i7 for work and quite like it except that a lot of applications don't support the High DPI screen which isn't a fault of the SB but it's frustrating nonetheless. My main gripe though is the battery life since the June firmware update came out... I was getting 10 hours but since the June update I'm struggling to manage 6 hours. Otherwise I love the light weight, the keyboard and the dock.

 

Maybe the surface isnt designed for ppl like me. But for my use which is browisng . Emails. And word docs. Its way overpriced .

Icould get a laptop for $500.

But ive heard good things about them

 

It's been a game changer for me. Hard to actually head into the office on cold winter mornings when I can just plug this badboy into a monitor/keyboard/mouse from the home office and write loans in my pjs

Cheers

Jamie

 

You can get a $500 laptop with SSD?

 

Fair enough. I'd rather have 500gb of a slower hdd instead of 200gb super fast

I had a fiddle of these at jb hifi and it looked and felt awesome.

Does the stylus eliminate the mouse ?

 

Ah no worries, just had a mate looking at a sub $1k laptop, he didn't go for the SSD.

 

My home PC (which isn't a surface pro as I used to do some pretty heavy gaming on it) has minimal HDD space, I think it's a 120GB SSD or something.

I then have a 2TB external plugged in which I install games and apps on, then I have an 8TB network server set up for media files.

I did this so a rebuild of my O/S is minimal impact, I rebuild my PC, I don't really lose anything.

Next time round I still think I would go for a desktop, it's on 24/7 as it monitors the internet on a 1 minute poll for specific media files and downloads them upon availability, as much as I love my Surface Pro at work, I am not sure how they would handle being run 24/7.

 

Joined the surface pro 4 owners club today

How are you guys getting so much battery life out of it? I charged it up to full in the office, then brought it home and it says 70% battery 3hrs remaining, and thats even with battery saver mode on. Some of you were talking about getting 8 hrs + ?

 

Congrats on the purchase

Change the screen display to a darker setting. Swipe right of the screen and some options should show up.

Cheers

Jamie

 

My laptop died today so I joined the bandwagon too - mostly b/c if it's good enough for you guys, it's good enough for me

One probelm that's super annoying is the scaling on hte external monitors - somethings are fine - web browsing for eg, but others aren't - my Adobe acrobat is just huge. Even file icons on the desktop look stupidly large. Any ideas how to fix? Is this normal?

 

Reduce the screen resolution on the Surface to get closer to the max resolution of the other monitors. You can also adjust the text sizing. Depending on the monitors you're using, there may not be an ideal setting, but there's probably a compromise.

 

What resolution are they running?

Right click on the desktop, choose "Screen Resolution" then click your external screen on the diagram that comes up. Resolution in the second drop down will be a number X another number.

They should be 1920 X 1080 for the external screens and 2160 X 1440 for the Surface Pro.

 

Thanks Dan

 

I'm having a complete tech nightmare atm. Surface pro is so slow on the internet it's basically unusable.

 

In what way? Loading pages is slow?

First thing is test the connection. Can you go here on it: Speedtest.net by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test and run a test and post the results back?

If you are using Edge (the new Internet Explorer that comes with Windows 10) I would reccomend switching out to either Firefox Browse Freely or Chrome Chrome Browser as they don't tend to get hung up with errors like the MS browsers do.

Drop me a PM if you need more help. Always happy to help out .

 

@Jess Peletier based on your Facebook page, your cat may be to blame for IT issues. Never let cats near anything, they're evil according to my dogs...


You need to isolate the problem. Is it just the internet that's slow? How does the computer run when it's off line? That will determine if it's a networking problem or if it's the computer itself.

If it's a networking problem, what about other computers? It could be possible that the new computer is getting a whole lot of updates. MS released a major Windows 10 update recently. The new computer may be syncing a lot of cloud based files. If this is the case, you probably just need to give it time.

We moved all the PCs to the SP4 in June-July. It took over a week to migrate everything. The computer setup itself took a few hours, the network updates took the better part of a week. It could have been faster but our phones are also bandwidth dependant and I didn't want to take them off line.