XPS12 vs. Surface Pro 3?

[BenneMus]

Does anyone have either one of them? I would like a list of pros and cons from both devices.

 

Thanks a lot.

[Guest]

Pros=XPS12

Cons=Surface 3

 

Surface has to many design flaws for my taste.

[MattP123]

Well, Linus has a XPS 12, and compares practically everything to it. 

Here is his review on the Surface Pro 3

[PhantomChevron]

Pros=XPS12

Cons=Surface 3

 

Surface has to many design flaws for my taste.

That is pretty shit post if your trying to help OP

[Guest]

That is pretty shit post if your trying to help OP

[Guest]

That is pretty shit post if your trying to help OP

Its a lot more helpful than this ^

At least I stated why i didn't like it

[brownninja97]

This is my opinion as i have one which this is being typed from. Comparing the features the dell smashs the surface to pieces in 90% of the tasks and upgrading or repairing isnt a massive issue. Lastly Dell has the best customer service in the world, there is no question about that. Same day rma(for free) can anyone best that, didnt think so

[Thorium19]

I would go for the dell. I don't like the idea of the surface, as it's too big for a tablet IMO and not designed well enough to be a laptop. The dell has a fully reposition able screen, whereas the Microsoft needs the screen to effectively be resting on something at all times in laptop mode. I'd personally choose the XPS12.

[Humble Bee]

I would get the xps12 as I personally have to have a keyboard that is permanently attached, also the hinged screen of a laptop can stop at any angle whereas the surface has 3 angles.

[JDS]

I feel like the XPS12 makes less compromises.

[BenneMus]

I would get the xps12 as I personally have to have a keyboard that is permanently attached, also the hinged screen of a laptop can stop at any angle whereas the surface has 3 angles.

just putting out the, the surface 3 has more than 3 angles, it's basicly the same as a hinge on a laptop.

[KemoKa]

I am fine with tablets so long as they can do absolutely everything an equivalent PC can do (This is a reason I miss those Motion Computing tablets) But the surfaces for all their capabilities are not quite up to what they were trying to achieve with Motion Computing. Those, you could upgrade the RAM, the HDD (even to an SSD) and they had more than one USB port.

Surfaces have too many imperfections (still) and ordinary laptops beat them (almost completely) outright. Not a lot of people are going to want a computer that will not stay stable on their lap unless they hold it with one hand, and laptops have a much better capacity for battery power. Never mind an ultrabook like the XPS12, I can use my own, normal, 15.6" laptop. A surface pro 3 will get, what, 8-9 hours on a charge? my only slightly above-average laptop will manage that comfortably because I have an SSD in there. Bear in mind that this is a laptop with an A10. It is a volcano. Even so, If I wanted I could upgrade to a 9-cell battery and that would bolster the battery life easily to 12 hours, and even then after all the modding I have done to my laptop I have still spent significantly less than I would have on a bog-standard Surface Pro 3. Other than portability (which both are made for) I cannot see what makes the surface sell. You can't drive very many screens off of it, you can't game very well on it compared to a Shield (though you should easily be able to) and on top of that it's expensive to say the least. Name one thing the surface can do that a laptop cannot. just one.

[elecxonica]

Disclaimer - I own neither.

 

The Surface Pro is great for tablet things, that is

• Browsing the web
• Emails
• Media consumption

The XPS is great for laptop things

• Getting work done
• Light gaming
• Light content creation

Of course, they both can do the other types stuff, just not as well, so it depends on what you want more, creation or consumption.

 

Personally, I'd go for the XPS, but it's up to you.

[Ursad0n]

It's basically what you need.

 

XPS is a laptop first, it can be a tablet but it is primarily a laptop

 

The surface is a tablet first, it is powerful enough to act as a laptop but it is primarily a tablet. 

 

When faced with the same decision I chose XPS 12 because as a student I am in need of a laptop for classes and programming and a tablet for fun once in a while

 

EDIT: Just as an aside I've had a tablet for about a year now with a case that has a keyboard on it, I can't think of the last time I used that tablet without the case and keyboard, likely the same thing would happen with a surface. So it was easy for me to get a laptop over a tablet like device

[BenneMus]

Thanks a lot for all the suggestions guys, the main reason why I started looking at the Surface Pro is because of the stylus, I love the idea of taking notes in that way, or drawing things into my OneNote file, and drawing / writing on a tablet with your fingers is overall a bad experience. What either one of these would mostly be used for would be note taking in class, basicly using the whole Microsoft Office package, some light casual gaming for downtime in school and puplic transport.

 

XPS seems better as a sturdy typing experience for sure because it has an attached keyboard that won't bend or anything.

 

Where the surface comes into the mix is because of the weight and the stylus for note taking and drawing.

 

 

If anyone knows of a device that is some kind of a middle ground between the two I would love to hear about it.