[bartread]

I have a Surface Pro for work and have no qualms saying the touchpad on my 2015 MBP is vastly superior. They're not even in the same league. To be honest, the touchpad on my 2011 MBP, whilst lacking the more modern refinements, such as force touch, still offers a better, more usable, experience than the touchpad on the Surface Pro.

The Surface Pro is also beset with a host of other glitches that simply should not be present on a laptop costing north of £2k so I would strongly recommend you look to spend your money elsewhere. (Sadly, I'm not too sure where - I find the PC laptop market somewhat hard to navigate, but I'm going to have to learn when it comes time to replace my 2015 MBP, unless Apple make some major improvements in the next release or two.)

[hungerstrike]

Multi button vertical mice are vastly superior to touch pads and I can use every single one of them with Windows.

Macs have shitty support for these mice.

I’m so glad that I’m not locked into any hardware, except of course when I want to compile an app for iOS.

[bartread]

Sure, and I have a mouse both in my office, and at home, but don't tend to carry it when I'm travelling because space really is at a premium in my bag. The MBP is the only laptop I've ever used that has a trackpad that is tolerable as a replacement for a mouse. Still not as good as a mouse, but better (often way better) than the rest.

My issue with the Surface Pro specifically is that it's competing in the, well, I won't say high end (because that implies something about hardware specs that may not be true), but certainly the expensive [1] laptop market, yet is plagued with annoyances, some of which are quite severe: bad touchpad, sketchy WiFi, indifferent (at best) battery life, and rapid battery drainage during sleep, to name but a few.

[1] I won't say premium either because, given the issues, it's premium only in the sense that you pay one.