Forum: MemoQ support
Topic: MemoQ occasionally sluggish after confirming segment
Poster: Dan Lucas
Post title: I was a fan, past tense
[quote]Ekhangel wrote:
This Surface thing is generally a huge pain in the you-know-what and I definitely recommend against it for any professional applications whatsoever...[/quote]
I used a Surface Pro for two and a half years as my main system and it worked very well, with none of the problems you encountered. The only reason I'm not still using it is that the battery began to fail, causing it to swell and forcing the two halves of the shell apart. That also put pressure on the touch screen, causing phantom touches to occur.
I looked into having the entire thing replaced, but the consensus was that even when the hardware fails Microsoft will not replace it, and only offers you a small discount on a new machine. I looked into having it repaired, but found that it would cost a couple of hundred pounds. Even worse, nobody would offer a guarantee that the repair would be successful, because the high-end i7 Surface Pro are even more difficult than their siblings to disassemble and put back together without some kind of damage. You could easily pay £200 and still not have a working machine at the end of it.
My conclusion was that I could get another secondhand but hardly used ex-corporate PC for the cost of repairing the Surface, and that's what I did. So, yes, for professional use, unless you are prepared to buy a new one every couple of years, I would avoid the Surface or indeed any other highly integrated (i.e. impossible to repair) device. Having said that, my wife still uses a Surface Go, and it's been a nice little machine.
If I buy another laptop for work I'll probably go back to a Thinkpad, where at least most of the parts are replaceable by the user. I'm thinking the forthcoming 9th generation X1 Thinkpad is looking good, especially as they seem to have decided to resolve the issue of poor performance caused by thermal throttling.
Dan