Laurentiu A. Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 Hello Neowin, I strongly consider buying a Surface laptop, version 5, or perhaps the one coming in September. 15" MacBook Air is also an option. For anyone the owns any surface laptops, is Windows Modern Standby broken on them as well? How good is the battery? Does it wake up in the bag, start to do updates, and fail to go back to sleep like the other laptops sold by a third party? Thank you, Andrei Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1432537-surface-laptop-5-buying-advice/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Global Moderator Posted August 17, 2023 Global Moderator Share Posted August 17, 2023 What specs are you looking for? There a reason you "want" a Surface? MacBook Air is good for battery life. But I don't know if you like MacOS. On the newest Surface laptops, it shouldn't have all the problems. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1432537-surface-laptop-5-buying-advice/#findComment-598843859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good Bot, Bad Bot Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 Why do you want to pay top dollar for a laptop where the specs lag behind? Surface or Macbook huh? So the OS is not really a factor? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1432537-surface-laptop-5-buying-advice/#findComment-598843862 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurentiu A. Posted August 17, 2023 Author Share Posted August 17, 2023 On 17/08/2023 at 23:08, Mindovermaster said: What specs are you looking for? There a reason you "want" a Surface? MacBook Air is good for battery life. But I don't know if you like MacOS. On the newest Surface laptops, it shouldn't have all the problems. Surface laptop 15" with 16GB of ram. I want an alternative to MacBook air on the Windows side, with the full build quality of a Mac and no custom drivers/bloatware from factory. I've seen the surface laptops being very well built, I'm just afraid of modern standby being broken on them too. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1432537-surface-laptop-5-buying-advice/#findComment-598843863 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurentiu A. Posted August 17, 2023 Author Share Posted August 17, 2023 On 17/08/2023 at 23:21, Good Bot, Bad Bot said: Why do you want to pay top dollar for a laptop where the specs lag behind? Surface or Macbook huh? So the OS is not really a factor? At the moment, I have an Asus 12th Gen Alder Lake H. It has many features, a gorgeous screen, dedicated graphics, good trackpad. What it is missing is build quality, battery life, a lot of bloatware apps that are required to manage the machine, driver problems, won't stay asleep (tried disabling everything related to power management and device manager), keyboard not great, a lot of custom apps and drivers available only in the original factory Windows image that's being used to reset the machine. Slowness after waking up from sleep and the list goes on... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1432537-surface-laptop-5-buying-advice/#findComment-598843865 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Global Moderator Posted August 17, 2023 Global Moderator Share Posted August 17, 2023 On 17/08/2023 at 15:27, Laurentiu A. said: At the moment, I have an Asus 12th Gen Alder Lake H. It has many features, a gorgeous screen, dedicated graphics, good trackpad. What it is missing is build quality, battery life, a lot of bloatware apps that are required to manage the machine, driver problems, won't stay asleep (tried disabling everything related to power management and device manager), keyboard not great, a lot of custom apps and drivers available only in the original factory Windows image that's being used to reset the machine. Slowness after waking up from sleep and the list goes on... Umm. You can download the drivers from their website. And you don't need "their" bloatware. Every Laptop I get, I wipe it.. New, fresh Windows install. (In this sense I would get 10, not 11) If you don't like the keyboard, you can always use an external one, right? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1432537-surface-laptop-5-buying-advice/#findComment-598843870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good Bot, Bad Bot Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 (edited) On 17/08/2023 at 16:27, Laurentiu A. said: At the moment, I have an Asus 12th Gen Alder Lake H. It has many features, a gorgeous screen, dedicated graphics, good trackpad. What it is missing is build quality, battery life, a lot of bloatware apps that are required to manage the machine, driver problems, won't stay asleep (tried disabling everything related to power management and device manager), keyboard not great, a lot of custom apps and drivers available only in the original factory Windows image that's being used to reset the machine. Slowness after waking up from sleep and the list goes on... All laptops can and should have a clean Windows install done so that takes care of the "bloat". Download only drivers from the laptop support page that are actually needed. OEM apps are a hard no for me but could be exceptions for certain gaming utilities which doesn't appear to apply to you. Edited August 17, 2023 by Good Bot, Bad Bot Mindovermaster 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1432537-surface-laptop-5-buying-advice/#findComment-598843891 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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