[kd913]

Why would anyone be doing this on their glued in laptop? If they are needing a dev machine, are you really trying to argue this is better than the mbp, thinkpads, hps or dells?

You are claiming performance figures at what 115W max turbo? What is the max consumption on the macbook 55W on CPU, 33W on GPU?

If performance matters, they should be doing the heavy lifting remotely.

Most people will be using single threaded performance, and the key metric here for this product is what is the battery life. They didn't even give a figure for that which speaks volumes.

They didn't even bring up the pen which is the main selling point of this product (i.e. ipad pro but for Windows).

[infinityplus1]

Most people don't want desktops. So powerful laptops are preferred. Macbooks don't support Linux officially. But Intel laptops do support them. So no matter how fast and efficient Macbooks are, people will still buy decent Intel laptops instead of the best Macbooks.

[kd913]

Have you tried running Linux natively on a secureboot Surface?

If you are running Linux in a vm, both are fine.

Most people want battery life, and if someone can afford to get either of these devices, they would be better off renting their heavy compute somewhere else.

[e44858]

> Have you tried running Linux natively on a secureboot Surface?

You can turn off secureboot quite easily: https://parinzee.github.io/linux-surface-overlay/docs/Instal...

[infinityplus1]

>Most people want battery life

Maybe for their personal device. But for work provided device, who cares if it is decent enough. Most people just keep them connected to power while working on a desk anyway (in my opinion).