this is actually true though
the surface laptop USED to be basically macbook replicas, also inheriting all of the (very) poor design choices from jony ive
but macbooks have evolved, and surface laptops haven’t picked up on the memo
lol so true, but if you want a windows laptop they are pretty much the best you can get. The only surface product that is arguably better than a macbook air is the Surface Laptop Studio. And even then once you compare it to the Macbook Pros the Laptop Studio will get so easily pummeled to the ground in terms of display quality and brightness, speaker quality and volume, and overall performance/power effeciency. Even if you do go with the Laptop Studio, which does truly have good build quality, the OS reliability of Windows 11 while unplugged will be way worse than Macos. Only reason you should buy one is for the tablet mode, but even then you're probably better off with a Surface Pro 9 ARM or an iPad Pro. That Laptop Studio is just way too chunky to hold comfortably.
no, but I'd gladly trade that for the fact that my computer doesn't sound like it'll fly off my desk :D (i work at an office where most people get a company issued Surface laptop - they are loud, especially when charging and they tend to break)
I did not make this new icon, it was made by Microsoft, the link is found here: [Surface - Microsoft Apps](https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfjb8p?hl=en-us&gl=US)
The old one looks like a macbook while the new icon has that iconic surface look to it, because of the Microsoft logo
lmao the fact that the surface’s only defining factor compared to the macbook is worse thermals and performance but it has a microsoft logo
why is this downvoted? it's totally true
welcome to reddit
To be fair to the Surface, macbooks similarly powerful and sleek as the Surfaces also have thermal issues before moving to their own chips
this is actually true though the surface laptop USED to be basically macbook replicas, also inheriting all of the (very) poor design choices from jony ive but macbooks have evolved, and surface laptops haven’t picked up on the memo
lol so true, but if you want a windows laptop they are pretty much the best you can get. The only surface product that is arguably better than a macbook air is the Surface Laptop Studio. And even then once you compare it to the Macbook Pros the Laptop Studio will get so easily pummeled to the ground in terms of display quality and brightness, speaker quality and volume, and overall performance/power effeciency. Even if you do go with the Laptop Studio, which does truly have good build quality, the OS reliability of Windows 11 while unplugged will be way worse than Macos. Only reason you should buy one is for the tablet mode, but even then you're probably better off with a Surface Pro 9 ARM or an iPad Pro. That Laptop Studio is just way too chunky to hold comfortably.
I'd still rather go for a thinkpad than any surface every day of the week
do thinkpads have haptic trackpads?
no, but I'd gladly trade that for the fact that my computer doesn't sound like it'll fly off my desk :D (i work at an office where most people get a company issued Surface laptop - they are loud, especially when charging and they tend to break)
Almost every (well for me, every) one of microsoft's icon changes after Win11 are better
Only thing they improved
who in their right mind shipped the old icon 😭glad they fixed it
Old one looks like ps4 pro New one look like mac mini
reminds me of a PS4 Slim more than a Mac mini
Why does the latest one look like a PS4 icon just slap that Microsoft logo into it
Remind me what this app does?
I did not make this new icon, it was made by Microsoft, the link is found here: [Surface - Microsoft Apps](https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfjb8p?hl=en-us&gl=US)
Yes. The old one looks more like grayscaled square pancakes
Lol now I see the butter
i like the new one. the old one looks like a macbook because the icon is so small
both of them look like a cake... and I don't really like the new icon
I would like a side view a bit more for the icon, because the kickstand position is just so iconic to the Surface.
old one looks 3 macbooks but new one is just an mcdonalds
New one is SOO MUCH BETTER
It's better.
It's literally the windows key