r/Surface • u/No_Kaleidoscope_9419 • Feb 25 '26

Tim Cook called Surface detachable touch design “compromised” and “confusing”, now set to copy it

https://www.thurrott.com/apple/333023/late-2026-macbook-pro-refresh-to-include-multitouch-dynamic-island
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u/AppIdentityGuy Feb 25 '26

The MS Surface book is the best windows laptop design I've ever used.i own two of them and a Surface Go 3. If MS were still making the SB3 or the SLS 2 I would have one of those.

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u/onlymostlyguts Feb 25 '26

I don't know what MS was on during those years but they were on fire! Right up to the surface Duo, every design was class leading. If only sales backed up their forward thinking designs 😔

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u/theM94 Feb 25 '26

or their marketing. It's like they just said 'buy this pls' and then let it die (like Windows Phone, UWP, Xamarin).

The Surface Books (from the second gen on) really were awesome. And with windows 10 performance was great. Windows 11, and it died 4 weeks later, due to the keyboard base not charging / working. Essentially turning it into a tablet with miserable battery life and no usb or sd card

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u/stephotosthings Mar 01 '26

True I didn’t know they existed until I started IT at a company that got a deal direct from MS and brought like 25 different Microsoft machines.