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wodin · 03-17-2015, 03:24 PM

All rightey then, question answered.

For what it's worth, I think the brand is mostly irrelevant as long as it's a major, well respected brand name. Off the top of my head those would be Dell, Leveno, HP, Toshiba, Samsung, Sony, etc. etc. What's important are the features like screen size, processor (I'd go with a Core i5), RAM (8GB), HDD size (1 TB), and number of ports you need; and of course the price.

COSTCO is usually the first place I look because of their excellent after purchase service and automatic extended warranty, but there are many deals on line too.

I have a Surface 3, Core i5, 256 GB HDD, 8 GB Ram, and I Love it, but my use case is obviously different than yours. One of the things I like about the Surface is the docking station. You can take the computer with you in either tablet or laptop mode, but when you get home you just drop it into the dock and you have up to two more monitors, a full sized keyboard & mouse, and extra USB ports for external HDD, DVD drives etc. In other words a full on desktop.

The problem with the Surface is again Windows 8.1, I REALLY can't wait for Win10 to arrive!

03-17-2015, 03:24 PM	#36
wodin Illiterate Posts: 10,279 Karma: 37848716 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: The Sandwich Isles Device: Samsung Galaxy S10+, Microsoft Surface Pro	All rightey then, question answered. For what it's worth, I think the brand is mostly irrelevant as long as it's a major, well respected brand name. Off the top of my head those would be Dell, Leveno, HP, Toshiba, Samsung, Sony, etc. etc. What's important are the features like screen size, processor (I'd go with a Core i5), RAM (8GB), HDD size (1 TB), and number of ports you need; and of course the price. COSTCO is usually the first place I look because of their excellent after purchase service and automatic extended warranty, but there are many deals on line too. I have a Surface 3, Core i5, 256 GB HDD, 8 GB Ram, and I Love it, but my use case is obviously different than yours. One of the things I like about the Surface is the docking station. You can take the computer with you in either tablet or laptop mode, but when you get home you just drop it into the dock and you have up to two more monitors, a full sized keyboard & mouse, and extra USB ports for external HDD, DVD drives etc. In other words a full on desktop. The problem with the Surface is again Windows 8.1, I REALLY can't wait for Win10 to arrive!