RE: Anyone into Android programming?
July 10, 2015 at 3:51 pm
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2015 at 3:53 pm by bennyboy.)
(July 10, 2015 at 3:11 pm)emjay Wrote: @Benny
Just letting you know the laptop's going back for a refund and I won't be getting the same one again because research indicates they may be prone to this sort of problem due to a design flaw. So it looks like I'll be getting a Windows 8 laptop after all - which is fine. So it's just going to be a little break from Unity and Blender while I get that sorted. Any recommendations of what I should get? And do you think a Surface would be worth considering?
That's the kind of thing I can just never make myself actually pay for, but I'm always pretty excited when I can get my hands on one.
Are you talking about a Surface3 Pro? You will definitely want to google this issue. The main issue seems to be the CPU power (are you going for the cheapest atom-based processor?) and whether some programs do/don't handle touch input. I pretty qucikly got interested because some Surface3 models are pretty cheap (like the same as a cheap laptop), and I fell into the youtube review rabbit-hole. There are a LOT of comments all over the internet and youtube about the Surface and how it works with different programs.
If it was me, and only for Unity, I'd just buy the cheapest new-model laptop I could find, becuase I already know that will run Unity. If it was for my daughter, who likes drawing and design, I'd be tempted to go for the Surface.
