In 2023 I fell down a rabbit hole. You see, I had inheireted a surface pro 4 earlier that year when I needed a laptop (I've always been a firm believer in desktops personally). When my brother had gotten one new I'm ashamed to say I didn't "get it". I kept calling it "fisher price's my first computer" on account of the single usb port and other ... baffling design choices microsoft has made. (Why why why was the keyboard an uncleanable felt? You put your greasy hands there!!!! You need to clean that!!!!!!) I still believe it was a flawed computer, but having used it first hand I released the form factor was actually revolutionary.
Touch screen laptops suck. The ergonomics are terrible. But the surface with it's removable keyboard made a big difference. Combined with the pen, I often found myself popping the keyboard off for touch only work like drawing. Plus, the pen was precise enough to solve one of the problems touch screen windows has always had - I could fumble my way through non touch optimized interfaces quickly enough that I didn't spend all my time thinking about them. And anything that annoyed me enough motivated me to just pop the keyboard back on for a moment.
But it wasn't all sunshine and roses. The cold reality was that the surface pro 4 I was using was essentially a decade old. Towards the end, it had a swelling battery, mere minutes of battery life, screen blemishes, a flaky keyboard connection and a slew of other minor grievances. I knew I needed something to replace it.
Around the same time I was needing a replacement, microsoft was teasing a windows on arm version of the surface go. I was holding off on replacing my aging surface because to me that seemed like the ideal computer - certainly a 20ish hour battery life would solve most of my woes, and x86 emulation was hitting enough of its stride that I could use whatever utilities I wanted (I'm too married to libreoffice and a specific 6502 assembly ide to ever consider a tablet or chromebook, not getting in to how android makes my skin crawl). But when the kickstand on my surface gave out, I had to replace it immediately, and Microsoft was still waffling about the arm version of the Go (Sure, I could've bought the surface nine arm version but I'm not paying a thousand fucking dollars for a computer that I could leave on a bus).
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