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by lastdong 13 days ago
Surface has seen so many iterations, some terrible, some nice. Still rocking the discontinued surface laptop studio as Wacom on the go, smallish footprint (14”) creative development machine. I just love its quirkiness and the fact that I can jump on photoshop to touch up an image, use it as tablet for movies, or vs code for (not great nowadays) 6h on battery. It is an odd intersection.
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dgellow 13 days ago
My surface book 2 has the best feeling keyboard I ever used on a laptop. And I still really like the overall unique form factor and 3:4 display with touch support.

But it didn't age too well, the battery is giving up and the SSD is pretty slow. Plus windows being a real slug doesn't make the experience that great anymore

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WillAdams 13 days ago
>Wacom on the go

?!?

https://surfacetip.com/surface-laptop-studio/

notes:

>Supports Microsoft Pen Protocol (MPP)

which is NTrig --- or do you use a Wacom AES stylus? (bought a Bamboo AES stylus, but it wouldn't work w/ my Toshiba Encore 2 Write 10)

Or are you genericizing "Wacom" as "active digitizer stylus"?

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lastdong 13 days ago
Exactly that, same basic functionality as a Wacom, active digitizer stylus.
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t_mahmood 13 days ago
And I have one that I use as thin client for my desktop, Linux made it usable! 10 year old surface pro 3, 8 to 9hr battery life, takes less than 20s to boot up to Gnome, no issues browsing on Firefox, it's a solid device on the go. And to my total surprise, it retained charge even after almost a month of no usage.
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lastdong 13 days ago
That is great battery life! I also wanted to try Linux, but I think I’ll lose the wacom feature. I also use it as a thin client for my Linux machines, and jointly with my Mac means I have access to all platforms.
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t_mahmood 13 days ago
I believe Linux supports Wacom tablets pretty well, I have one which worked without any issues, and buttons can be fully customized. The pen broke though, so it's now collecting dust, and I'm not in situation to replace it.

Unfortunately for Surface pro, some parts of the touch screen was damaged during battery replacement. But the parts that works, works well.

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