Surface or touchscreen laptop

[wyzard]

Good morning.

I'm trying to decide between a Windows Surface Tablet or a new Windows 8 laptop with a touchscreen. I know it's a matter of opinion, but am looking for thoughts/suggestions or input from those that may be lucky enough to have both.

Thank you.

 

[Ephoras]

do u have a laptop at the moment?
If yes put windows 8 pro on it and use it without touchscreen. WIndows 8 will boost the speed a lot.
You can still buy a Surface RT and get the awesome tablet feeling but i personnally dont think laptop with touchscreen is good since win( works great with mouse, too.

So buy a tablet and revive your old laptop with win8

 

[LA33R]

If you don't have a laptop, or your laptop is very old... I suggest getting a new one before a surface RT, because the RT is still only a toy, no native apps etc...

If your laptop is modern I would suggest buying windows 8 for £25, an you should still have enough money for a surface if you're thinking of a new laptop.

I have a laptop running windows 8 without a touch screen and it works well, but if I just want to browse the web or write a letter, I get the surface out.

 

[archapacman]

You could always get surface rt with a cheap desktop for remote pc. This is my plan at the current moment. The weight/form factor of surface rt is too hard to give up. Even against the surface pro, the surface rt has better weight and slimmer design

 

[Afy]

On the laptop side there really are no compelling devices out there right now. The best one I have seen so far is the Sony Vaio with an i7, 8GB RAM and a 256 GB HDD, and all of the sensors.
But its a Sony...
I would wait for the really good touch-lets to come out.

 

[J515OP]

On the laptop side there really are no compelling devices out there right now. The best one I have seen so far is the Sony Vaio with an i7, 8GB RAM and a 256 GB HDD, and all of the sensors.
But its a Sony...
I would wait for the really good touch-lets to come out.

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[Afy]

I guess that would work for some. I unfortunately have never had any luck with Thinkpads..

What I really would love is 15.6 touch screen, discrete graphics, minimum of 1080p something that is not an ultrabook. I am not obsessed about battery time per se.

Then again my XPS with a touch mouse seems to be doing fine for the time being. Though I must confess I do keep trying to touch its screen and sometimes wonder why nothing is happening.. lol

 

[J515OP]

Well many new Windows 8 Laptops are coming out. Stay tuned and you are sure to find something that will fit your specs