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Well, if you have to spend the money later on accessories that you'll need, like the Surface, or that will be very tight on performance/autonomy (Yoga), I would take a look at the Acer S7-393.
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Thanks. I'll take a look to see how it is, but for now it looks good. Although it is portable as such. Nothing about turning it into a tablet like the others (which are also touch-sensitive).
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Yes it does have a touchscreen, but I see that what you are looking for is a tablet pc or one of those 2 in 1s.
Of all the ones I have seen, none go beyond 5 hours (being generous) of "no tricks" autonomy (for example, in the case of the Surface they state that 9 hours is only dedicated to watching video), and the ones that mount a decent i7 go over, or cut back on other elements such as RAM or the size of the SSD.
As I begin to assume that those two have been the best you have found after an extensive comparison, and you do not want a Mac, then go for the Lenovo. It is a fairly versatile device, and of all the ones I have seen it is one of the best in terms of quality/price.
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let's see what you think of this one, it already comes with the keyboard included
Toshiba Satellite Click 2 Pro Intel i5/8GB/256GB/13.3" - Tablet - 1,100 euros
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Check out the new Dell XPS 13.3. I was able to tinker with it a bit a month ago and it's really spectacular.
XPS 13 Laptop with InfinityEdge Display | Dell SpainI think it perfectly meets the profile you're looking for as it's lightweight, has enough power with the intel i5 or i7 and a quality screen with good resolution.
As for the Yoga 3 pro, as you indicate, they are very beautiful, but having the first processor in the M series weighs down the final result a lot. This type of product is designed to have great autonomy, more than to get good performance.
The Surface 3, although I haven't tried it personally, I know people who have it and they think that, if you need Windows yes or yes, it's the best option to take it on a trip and work on the road, from airports or from anywhere since they offer a good balance between autonomy and power.
As for convertibles, as you can see in my signature, I have one and I can tell you that, although mine is low-end, they offer surprising performance, but in terms of connectivity they fall short since, depending on the model, the number of full-size USBs is scarce and none have a network cable connection. Something very useful if you want to take advantage of fiber or high-speed connections.
Best regards
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I recommend the latest Lenovo Yoga (the laptop) they are fantastic, without being Apple it would be my recommendation. But remember that you can use Macs natively with Windows and I can vouch that the MacBook Air are super durable and the Retina ones are amazing, even though it's riskier I would go for the new MacBook (without the Air).
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I would stay with the XPS13
But if you don't mind having an apple with windows, the Airs are ultra-resistant and have powerful equipment.
I have an 11.6 Air with an i7 8gb of ram and the SSD and it really flies. It has withstood 3 beers on top (with one of them it suddenly shut down…) and it works like the first day. It weighs nothing and they have decent batteries of 8 or 9 hours.I give it a lot of use and I travel a lot with it and you hardly notice that you are carrying it. It does 400km weekly and it's still there.
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I had no idea that Macs could run Windows without problems.
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Coexisting with MacOS.
You can do it as virtualization (running the corresponding program Parallels, VMware…), or in its own partition with the BootCamp, (link to Apple) which is the one I would recommend since it is the way in which Windows would have 100% of the hardware resources.
If this makes you reconsider the issue, I would also suggest an Air. If not, I keep the Lenovo.
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Man power you can delete OSX without any problem, but it would be a crime :troll: besides you could not install the firmware updates from Windows.
I don't know what software you use but I assure you that OSX is one of the most complete systems that exist it has the advantages of the variety of software/drivers of Windows along with the possibilities of a kernel base and opensource software of Linux, I don't change it and anything I need from Windows I use Wine or in its default Parallels (although I haven't needed it for a long time) and occasionally I use BootCamp to tinker. I now don't consider buying anything other than a mac mainly for OSX, I won't say anything more.
If not, better than Dell maybe I would even be interested in the new HP Spectre x360 which is in the style of the Lenovo Yoga but at a more reasonable price.
PD. Another admirable thing about OSX is even better than Linux managing RAM, this Air has 2GB and has 4 years, it goes like a shot!, recently I was doing 3D designs with SketchUP, I usually use it with Lightroom, and I don't remember the last time I looked at the system monitor to see the RAM usage.
