Does anyone have any experience with this?
My 2011 MacBook Air is starting to slog a bit, and I'm considering taking a comparatively big leap and trying to use the SP3 as a replacement. Besides standard having 40 Chrome tabs open, my usage mostly consists of many excel workbooks and sometimes a copy of R running. I'm not a very elegant coder, so the stuff I do actually ends up being somewhat CPU intensive. I don't have 12 hour compiles, but I run operations that take excel 5-10 minutes to complete sometimes, and need to run them many (possibly hundreds of) times, so CPU speed matters a bit. I picked up a Lenovo P400 for this stuff, but while I thought I'd be fine with the bulky form factor, this turned out to be a mistake.
So does anyone have any thoughts about the SP3 as a laptop replacement?
My 2011 MacBook Air is starting to slog a bit, and I'm considering taking a comparatively big leap and trying to use the SP3 as a replacement. Besides standard having 40 Chrome tabs open, my usage mostly consists of many excel workbooks and sometimes a copy of R running. I'm not a very elegant coder, so the stuff I do actually ends up being somewhat CPU intensive. I don't have 12 hour compiles, but I run operations that take excel 5-10 minutes to complete sometimes, and need to run them many (possibly hundreds of) times, so CPU speed matters a bit. I picked up a Lenovo P400 for this stuff, but while I thought I'd be fine with the bulky form factor, this turned out to be a mistake.
So does anyone have any thoughts about the SP3 as a laptop replacement?