definitely not. It performs quite nice but cannot even get close to a Surface 3 or S4 when available .... hahaha
Simple facts : Intel Core i7-3820QM + 16 Gb + 1 TB SSD + 15" Retina display (2880 x 1800) for .... 2.000 €... Nothing matched this, the opportunity of a very good deal I hate Mac OS X so I decided to install Windows 7 using Bootcamp then 8 and 8.1... and never had any problem with it. In the end, believe me or not, it' the best laptop I've ever used under Windows. @PaulDesmond : Don't tell me you could have said no to this offer
Your Surface 3 only has a small Core i5 (or maybe a i7 but no Quad Core ?) and only 8 GB... so not enough for me If a Surface Pro 4 with Core i7 and 16 or even 32 Gb of RAM is about to arrive, I'll be thinking about it BTW, my Wifi is working very well at the moment
2 grand is a lot for a laptop and I'd never spent that amount for a single toy knowing that I might get fooled with driver problems. Lucky you that you got along all the time without issues. I spent so much money on so many machines here that I certainly could have afforded a Mac-book as well but I never waste the glimpse of an idea to buy hardware of a company that is not designed to carry Windows as its OS
You seem to be a not very open minded guy.. one of these kind of guys telling "Linux is a s**t", "Apple is building s**t" and so many over craps you can say because you don't want to try. I'm sure you're happy with your computers and won't waste my time talking about this anymore. One last thing : Apple is using nVidia, Broadcom, Intel technology like no other computer builders. Just try to find a Thunderbolt port in any laptop other than Apple back in 2012... you'll see that they are the only ones using Intel tech. I've tried HP, Dell, Toshiba (urghhhh), Samsung, Lenovo (very good but still no Retina display) and I can easily say Apple is the best laptop for Windows. Have fun
I just say I'm not happy with these kind of answers... I don't want to be judged on what I'm doing with my laptop and why I'm buying this rather than this.. I don't want to argue in this, I just wanted to ask a simple question
At the age of 60 I can say that I tried a lot in my life, Linux and Apple of course and I am most open minded upon everything that arrives and yes, I'm most happy with that I have around me. Just saying
Thunderbolt has worked out so well for them they completely dropped it in their latest laptop for USBC.
USBC will be part of Thunderbolt 3 if I'm not wrong. The latest laptop is a deception for me.... Only Core i5 and no memory I dream about a laptop with 32 Gb of RAM and Core i7 + Retina 5k screen + Thunderbolt 3... If this arrives one day, I'll be buying it.
I have i7 and 32 Gb of RAM, but alas it's a desktop Well 32 Gb RAM tomorrow when postman comes, 24 now, have to take out 4Gb in 2 slots and replace with 8Gb
running two Lenovo XEON rigs here, one with 48 gig ram and one with 16, honestly I cannot detect any difference in performance on 6 core CPUs
I also have a i7-4790K (8 Cores) + 32 Gb in my desktop... + 12 * 4 Tb hard drives + 1 PCIe 512 SSD... but I cannot bring it with me when I'm traveling