Can Surface Pro 3 Replace Your Ultrabook? Specs Compared

[In3rt1a]

I was able to get an Hp ultrabook with i7, 8gb of ram, and a 1tb hard drive from costco for $600. Granted, it was on sale, but these prices still seem blown way out of proportion to me.

 

[Scar89]

Gaming benchmarks please, Pro 2 vs Pro 3 i3/i5 and i7. Run Arma 3 just to bring the pain! >

 

[back_by_demand]

According to various benchmarking sites, the Intel HD 5000 is slightly better than a GeForce GT550M, that card appears on Tom's own graphics comparison charts as equal to a few desktop class graphics cards - most notably the GeForce 7800 GTX and Radeon 4650, which until last year I had in a gaming rig happily playing Crysis. Not in full HD, not on Ultra, but it looked good and was butter smooth. Of course there are are much better graphics cards, but that does not mean these are suddenly rubbish, they are good performers. So much so that Futuremark gives a 50\50 chance of hitting minimum specs on 1/3 of the games on the below page and a full minimum and recommended on the remaining 2/3's
http://www.futuremark.com/hardware/gpu/Intel+HD+Graphics+5000/games
This is no slouch and it will play almost all your games, as well as being a tablet, FFS!

 

[RedJaron]

Gaming benchmarks please, Pro 2 vs Pro 3 i3/i5 and i7. Run Arma 3 just to bring the pain! >

We want a game, not a slideshow. 😉

 

[Dreakin]

If it can't even run Crysis, then it is not a laptop replacement.

The HD Graphic can run Crysis one with low setting 30+ FPS. Also they said the "surface Pro 3 Can replace your Laptop" where in that sentence did it say Gaming Laptop. If you clearly believe a gaming laptop and a laptop and also a business laptop are the same then I will not even bother explaining anything.... =.=

 

[Dreakin]

If it can't even run Crysis, then it is not a laptop replacement.

http://www.futuremark.com/hardware/gpu/Intel+HD+Graphics+5000/games

 

[Dreakin]

Yet another flop by Microsoft.

Joining the ranks of Zune, their first attempt at tablets, Windows Mobile, Surface 1 & 2 [lost billions].

Microsoft just doesn't get it, this products is till wrong at so many levels. Glad I sold my MSFT stock, no growth in this company in the foreseeable future.

MSFT stock rose from $30 to $40 in the past year... they already have way over 2/3 of Apple's mobile market in Europe... they sold far more XBox Ones than Xbox 360s despite the terrible PR (yes, SONY sold more PS4s still - internal growth is undeniable regardless of how you look at it). And the Surface _PRO_ has been highly praised in the "productivity tablet" segment.

Your argument is invalid.
But I'm glad you sold your stock.

1. I sold MSFT at the higher mark of the price range you mentioned, and stock is about potential future growth and MSFT doesn't have it.

2. Are you even kidding, you're mentioning Microsoft and Apple in the same sentence regarding mobile? You have zero understanding of business if you think MSFT is remotely as successful as AAPL in this space. MSFT is so far behind on way too many levels.

Please, please do show MSFT profits from mobile versus AAPL and lets see whose points are invalid. Dare you buddy.

3. Microsoft XBOX lines since the beginning to now has made marginal profit for them. Sony's Playstation line has made dramatically more profits and as a strategy for the company has been way more of a success. Microsoft knew they'd lose hundreds of millions early on with the first iterations of the Xbox too bad they didn't have the same strategy for the Surface and instead overpriced junk and ended up losing a billion while getting zero market share and penetration unlike the Xbox.

Microsoft either comes out with products too early on and doesn't produce the products customers actually want (first iteration of tablets and mobile over a decade ago)

or come way after the market is created and established by competitors than try to overprice their products. (Zune, recent mobile phones, Surface tablets)

Xbox is somewhat a success, from a marketing and customer perception they've done well. From a business perspective they haven't done that well.

I laugh at this. First you claim at the first post MS has no growth at all in the company. Yet he explain it very well, microsoft growth in it product as a whole is doing great, xbox is selling better then previous, window phone is starting to shine, the surface is growing as well. So... He proved you wrong on the first post MS is a growing company. Who cares about if sony ps4 is selling more or the iphone is selling more mobile (started earlier). Like who cares MS is growing making profit from it that more important on a business view.

and you're view or your score sheet that MS is loosing all these profits are so flawed. I dare you to show me where you're getting all these score margin and i'll show you mine from an actual trusted place rather then mouthing off. Cause clearly you got shut down from your first post and is trying to desperately recover =.=

 

[back_by_demand]

Any gaming laptop would make a great business laptop from the standpoint of performance or power, just they tend to be heavy bricks. People are forgetting this is as thin as most smartphones. The stats back it up though, it will replace most ultrabooks, and if you work in an office most PCs as well. Is it a specialised gaming laptop? No, but it will still do a great job.

 

[natoco]

I was going to buy a mid range pro 3, then I looked at the cpu/apu choices and got angry..... You cant get an i3 with multithreading with an HD 5100 (iris) gpu. To finally get a ok gpu you have to buy the i7 which sounds ok until you realise how much it throttles to handle the heat of extra cores negating the point of the extra cores in the first place. Its like intel think its a desktop cpu they are selling, no one cares about 10-30% more cpu power in a tablet when the bottom of the range cpu is all you need anyway in a tablet, need more, jump on your desktop and smash the performance out of the park compared to a 2k tablet and it wont go flat.
They should have gone with 1 cpu choice and various gpu choices plus capacity. Or buy the apple air for 1k and get the HD 5000 for $800 less. That to me is a massive fail when it could have been done right.