Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft in Azure doing open source for the web. I have never worked for the Windows group. I've been blogging here for a decade and I stand on my reputation for being fair and impartial to the best of my abilities.
免责声明：我在Azure的Microsoft工作，为Web开源。 我从未在Windows组工作过。 我已经在这里写博客十年了，我一直以自己的能力做到公平公正而享有声誉。
One day, someone will make the perfect computing device. Or will they? I'm starting to think it's just not possible.
有一天，有人会制造出完美的计算设备。 还是会？ 我开始认为这是不可能的。
At this point, in 2013, we all want something that is/has:
在这一点上，2013年，我们所有人都希望拥有以下东西：
Speed. Note that I didn't say power. I think the days of chasing the all mighty gigahertz is over. I don't care if I have a 3GHz processor or a quad-core whatever. I want apps to launch in an a second or so.
速度。 请注意，我没有说权力。 我认为追逐所有强大的千兆赫兹的日子已经过去。 我不在乎我是否拥有3GHz处理器或四核处理器。 我希望应用程序能在一秒钟左右启动。
Light. I spent years carrying around a 10 pound laptop and calling it light. Before that it was 17 pounds and I called it light. Now I'm carrying a 3 pound Ultrabook and thinking that the power supply is heavy. Whatever is next, it needs to be <= 3 pounds.
光。 我花了数年时间携带一本10磅重的笔记本电脑，称它为轻便。 在此之前，它只有17磅，我称它很轻。 现在，我背着3磅重的Ultrabook，并认为电源很重。 不管下一步是什么，它都必须小于等于3磅。
Size. For a number of years there have been 15" and 17" laptops with huge screens. I believe this is because a 15" or larger laptop was the only way to get a great screen resolution. Now that we can get 1080p resolution (or larger!) on a 13" or 11" screen there's less reason to go large.
尺寸。 多年来，已经有15“和17”笔记本电脑带有大屏幕。 我相信这是因为15英寸或更大的笔记本电脑是获得出色的屏幕分辨率的唯一方法。既然我们可以在13英寸或11英寸的屏幕上获得1080p分辨率(或更高分辨率！)，那么就没有理由扩大屏幕了。
Touch. Everything needs touch. Reaching out and touching an icon is more intuitive than using a mouse, touchpad or that weird little Thinkpad eraser head. You eraserhead people are weird.
触摸。 一切都需要触摸。 伸出并触摸图标比使用鼠标，触摸板或怪异的小Thinkpad橡皮擦头更直观。 你橡皮擦的人很奇怪。
"Every laptop should (and will) have a touch screen in a year. Mark my words. This nonsense about how your arm will hurt assumes that you're only using it. A touchscreen is complementary not primary."
“一年中，每台笔记本电脑都应该(并且将要)配备触摸屏。请记住我的话。关于手臂会受到怎样伤害的废话假设您只是在使用它。触摸屏是互补的，而不是主要的。”
Touch. Everything needs touch. Reaching out and touching an icon is more intuitive than using a mouse, touchpad or that weird little Thinkpad eraser head. You eraserhead people are weird.
触摸。 一切都需要触摸。 伸出并触摸图标比使用鼠标，触摸板或怪异的小Thinkpad橡皮擦头更直观。 你橡皮擦的人很奇怪。
Quality. Plastic crap is plastic crap. We care about our devices these days and we use them everywhere. Apple proved this with its excellent engineering and aluminum construction. Microsoft validated this and pointed out to OEMs with the engineering work put into the Surface. Microsoft has long made awesome keyboards and mice. I'm glad to see more quality hardware coming out.
质量。 塑料废话是塑料废话。 这些天，我们非常在意我们的设备，并在各处使用它们。 苹果公司以其出色的工程设计和铝质结构证明了这一点。 Microsoft对此进行了验证，并向OEM指出了Surface投入的工程工作。 微软长期以来一直在制作很棒的键盘和鼠标。 我很高兴看到更多优质的硬件问世。
Keyboard. Now, I didn't say "integrated keyboard" or "fancy touch cover keyboard." I just mean keyboard. I would expand this even more to say "I need a keyboard when I need one and I need it to work well." When I need a keyboard, I usually need it for either a short email OR a long document. For short emails or tweets an on-screen keyboard works but sometimes I do need to write for a dozen pages and I want that experience to be comfortable.
键盘。 现在，我没有说“集成键盘”或“精美触摸式键盘”。 我只是说键盘。 我会更进一步地扩展它，说：“当我需要一个键盘并且需要它正常工作时，我需要一个键盘”。 当我需要键盘时，通常需要它来发送简短的电子邮件或较长的文档。 对于简短的电子邮件或鸣叫，可以使用屏幕键盘，但是有时我确实需要写一打页面，并且我希望这种体验很舒适。
Integrated. Everything should "just work." That means touch scrolling without thinking of drivers, automatic updates without thinking, apps that support all my services (Gmail, Hotmail, LinkedIn, etc.)
集成。 一切都应该“正常工作”。 这意味着无需考虑驱动程序即可进行触摸滚动，无需考虑驱动程序即可进行自动更新，支持我所有服务(Gmail，Hotmail，LinkedIn等)的应用程序
Ecosystem. The apps that I use. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Trello, Words with Friends, etc. I wrote about this in my post "I can't even think about switching phones without these apps." Once you're invested in an ecosystem, the ecosystem itself is a kind of gravity that keeps you on that platform. If I had 2 apps I cared about, switching phones or platforms isn't a big deal. Once I have 20, I need those 20 to exist on new platform - and be awesome - before I switch.
生态系统。 我使用的应用程序。 Twitter，Facebook，Instagram，Trello，Words with Friends等。我在我的帖子中写道： “如果没有这些应用程序，我什至无法考虑切换手机。” 一旦您对生态系统进行了投资，生态系统本身就是一种引力，使您始终处于该平台上。 如果我有2个我关心的应用程序，那么切换电话或平台就没什么大不了的。 一旦有了20岁，我就需要那20岁才能存在于新平台上，而且很棒-在我切换之前。
Those are the characteristics that we can all agree on. Now, let's apply those to different needs and work styles.
这些都是我们都可以同意的特征。 现在，让我们将其应用于不同的需求和工作风格。
消费与生产 (Consumption vs. Production)
This is an axis you see a lot, most often as a way for folks to say that the iPad is a device for reading/getting/consuming and not making/creating/producing. This may have been the case early with the iPad on but it's less valid now.
这是您经常看到的轴，通常是人们说iPad是用于读取/获取/消费而不是进行制造/创造/生产的设备的一种方式。 iPad早期可能就是这种情况，但现在已经不那么有效了。
If you're a writing using an iPad, there are a number of excellent keyboards and 3rd party keyboard covers for the iPad. Personally, I've paired an Apple Wireless Keyboard to my iPad and written on it quite happily. The real issue with producing on the iPad is its lack of a shared file system and most application's mediocre offline integration with services like Dropbox. There are a number of Markdown editors like IA Writer that get close, but none quite achieve the dream: get on a plane, write a bunch offline with a great word processor, get off the plane and sync to Dropbox. We are always forced to "think" about where thing are. Even in Pages - which is a fantastic technical achievement - there's still a constant "copy from WebDav" and "Copy to iTunes." Dealing with iPad documents is such a hassle, in fact, sometimes just emailing the thing is easiest. This is something that COULD be solved, I'm sure, if there was the will to do it right. If you buy into using only iCloud, the experience is better, of course. QuickOffice Pro HD also gets close, but the inability to use one app for storage and another for editing is a consistent problem.
如果您使用iPad写作，那么iPad会有许多出色的键盘和第三方键盘盖。 就个人而言，我已经将Apple Wireless Keyboard键盘与iPad配对，并在上面写得很开心。 在iPad上进行制作的真正问题是缺乏共享文件系统，并且大多数应用程序与Dropbox等服务的脱机集成程度一般。 有许多Markdown编辑器(例如IA Writer)接近了，但没有一个能实现梦想：登上飞机，用出色的文字处理器离线编写一堆书，下飞机并同步到Dropbox。 我们总是被迫“思考”事物在哪里。 即使在Pages(这是一项了不起的技术成就)中，仍然存在不断的“从WebDav复制”和“复制到iTunes”。 处理iPad文档是如此麻烦，实际上，有时仅通过电子邮件发送邮件是最容易的。 我敢肯定，如果有意愿做正确的事，这是可以解决的。 当然，如果您只使用iCloud，体验会更好。 QuickOffice Pro HD也将接近，但是无法使用一个应用程序进行存储，而不能使用另一个应用程序进行编辑是一个持续的问题。
If you're a coder, you can use an iPad or Surface to remote into a larger machine via Remote Desktop or VNC or SSH (with an app like Prompt from Panic) but then you've turned your modern machine into a terminal. That's fine, but it doesn't really take advantage of its capabilities.
如果您是编码员，则可以使用iPad或Surface通过Remote Desktop或VNC或SSH(使用Panic的Prompt之类的应用程序)远程访问较大的计算机，但随后您已将现代计算机变成了终端。 很好，但是并没有真正利用其功能。
The Surface RT has a similar but slightly different problem. There IS a clear file system and it's accessible to you, even from "modern" apps. However, there's no DropBox application (yet) although there's word that an app has been submitted to the store. I'd like to see it in the standard file dialogs like this screenshot. I'd like to see SkyDrive, DropBox, Google Docs, etc. all be available and smart. SkyDrive is well integrated into Office and standard dialogs. I hope others can be. We shall see!
Surface RT具有类似但略有不同的问题。 这里有一个清晰的文件系统，您甚至可以从“现代”应用程序中访问它。 但是，虽然有一个应用程序已提交到商店的消息，但还没有DropBox应用程序。 我希望在此屏幕截图这样的标准文件对话框中看到它。 我希望看到SkyDrive，DropBox，Google Docs等都可用并且很聪明。 SkyDrive已很好地集成到Office和标准对话框中。 希望其他人也可以。 我们将会看到！
UPDATE: The DropBox app has just arrived in the Windows Store and YES you can open and save files to it from any applications! Get the Dropbox app here.
更新： DropBox应用程序刚刚到达Windows应用商店，是的，您可以从任何应用程序中打开文件并将其保存到其中！ 在此处获取Dropbox应用。
An Ultrabook (or a MacBook), since it's a full computer, doesn't have any of these restrictions. You can do whatever you like however you like with whatever programs you want whether they are "in the store" or not.
由于Ultrabook(或MacBook)是一台完整的计算机，因此没有任何这些限制。 您可以使用所需的任何程序执行自己喜欢的任何操作，而无论程序是否“在商店中”。
This brings me to the next axis...
这将我带到了下一个轴...
键盘或无键盘或机盖键盘 (Keyboard or no Keyboard or Keyboard in a Cover)
To get "real" work done, until voice recognition reaches 99% or subvocalization becomes reality, you'll need a keyboard. The touch keyboard on the iPad is excellent, really. There's some amazing dynamic resizing of the buttons as well as some smarts when the keyboard is split in two. However, tapping on a screen hurts my bones after a few pages. It's just not as comfortable as a keyboard with "throw" where the keys give under pressure. Not to mention an on-screen keyboard takes up half the screen.
要完成“真实”的工作，直到语音识别率达到99％或变声成为现实，您需要一个键盘。 iPad上的触控键盘确实很棒。 当键盘一分为二时，按钮和智能按钮的动态调整大小令人惊讶。 但是，点击屏幕几页后会伤到我的骨头。 它只是不像带有“掷”键的键盘那样舒适，因为键盘会在压力作用下发出声音。 更不用说屏幕键盘占据了一半的屏幕。
The Surface RT's claim to fame is the Touch Cover. It's a magnetic cover not unlike the iPad one except it doesn't fold. There's an integrated keyboard within the felt cover. You really have to try it to decide if it's for you. It's not for me. I have tried to type on it for weeks now and I've given up. I am only about 80% of my regular speed and it consistently misses my touches. This need to double-touch to make sure a key is hit has been the deal breaker for me, preventing me from getting work done with the Surface.
Surface RT声名claim起的是Touch Cover。 这是一种磁性保护套，与iPad相似，只是不会折叠。 毛毡盖内有一个集成键盘。 您真的必须尝试确定它是否适合您。 不是给我的我已经尝试输入了几个星期，但我已经放弃了。 我的速度仅为正常速度的80％，并且始终无法触及到我。 这需要双击以确保击中了按键，这一直困扰着我，这使我无法使用Surface进行工作。
I went and bought a Type Cover. This is the magnetic Surface cover with an actual keyboard with keys that move. This is a fantastic keyboard rivaling that of my ThinkPad. It's super thin but it's a few millimeters thicker than the Touch Cover so I'm a tiny bit sad. Also, when you fold the Type Cover back, the keys are facing outward so you can feel them when you use the Surface. It bothered me for a bit but then I just decided to get over it. It remains to be seen if others will, but I can attest to the fact that the Type Cover is a killer keyboard, not unlike my Apple Wireless Keyboard.
我去买了一个Type Cover。 这是带有实际键盘并带有可移动键的磁性表面盖。 这是一款出色的键盘，可与我的ThinkPad媲美。 它超薄，但比Touch Cover厚几毫米，所以我有点难过。 同样，当您将Type Cover折回时，按键朝外，因此在使用Surface时可以感觉到它们。 这让我有些困扰，但后来我决定克服它。 至于其他人是否愿意，还有待观察，但是我可以证明Type Cover是一个杀手级键盘，与我的Apple Wireless Keyboard键盘不同。
In fact, if Apple would make an iPad keyboard that didn't have the round battery area that sticks up so much, they'd have a great little combo. I tried carrying an iPad and the Apple Wireless Keyboard around for a while but but the resulting thickness is greater than - and less useful than - a MacBook Air or Ultrabook alone.
实际上，如果苹果公司制造的iPad键盘没有那么多的圆形电池区域，那么它们的组合就很棒。 我尝试携带iPad和Apple Wireless Keyboard键盘了一段时间，但所得到的厚度比单独使用MacBook Air或Ultrabook更大-有用程度更低。
I love the idea of a no-compromises "convertible." A full keyboard that takes up only the space required and then goes away as much as possible when I just want a tablet for touch or movies. The Lenovo Yoga (or some MacBook Air that doesn't yet exist but has a touch screen and folds) approaches this perfection. The new Samsung Chronos Ultrabook Series 7 doesn't fold but includes a touchscreen and looks pretty awesome as well.
我喜欢“不折不扣”的想法。 一个完整的键盘只占用所需的空间，然后在我只想让平板电脑触摸或看电影时尽可能地消失。 联想瑜伽(或尚不存在但具有触摸屏和折叠功能的某些MacBook Air)可以达到这一完美效果。 新的三星Chronos Ultrabook Series 7不会折叠，但是带有触摸屏，看起来也很棒。
速度 (Speed)
I don't know what the speed of the Surface or my iPad but I don't care. Knowing the processor speed doesn't tell me if apps load in a second. Some do on my iPad. Some do on my Surface. All the important ones (Mail, Calendar, etc) load on my iPad in a second. It unlocks instantly. On the Surface they almost load in a second. Sometimes it's instant, sometimes it's 3 seconds. I don't know why it differs. Perhaps sometimes the apps are "warm." I think the Surface RT could do for some app-specific speed optimizations because some apps (Maps) take as long as 5 seconds to load which, in my mind, isn't acceptable for something classified as a "tablet." I expect instant from a tablet.
我不知道Surface或iPad的速度如何，但我不在乎。 知道处理器速度并不能告诉我应用程序是否在一秒钟内加载。 有些在我的iPad上执行。 有些在我的Surface上执行。 所有重要的邮件(邮件，日历等)都将在一秒钟内加载到我的iPad上。 它立即解锁。 在表面上，它们几乎可以在一秒钟内加载。 有时是即时的，有时是3秒。 我不知道为什么会有所不同。 也许有时候应用程序是“温暖的”。 我认为Surface RT可以对某些特定于应用程序的速度进行优化，因为某些应用程序(地图)的加载时间可能长达5秒，在我看来，这对于归类为“平板电脑”的产品来说是不可接受的。 我希望平板电脑能立即提供。
Here's where things get interesting. Are the expectations that different from a tablet vs. a laptop? We seem to be more patient with our laptops. I expect basically everything except Gameloft games to load instantly on my iPad. Loading in 5 seconds? Time to Force Quit you because something's taking too long.
这是事情变得有趣的地方。 平板电脑和笔记本电脑的期望不同吗？ 我们似乎对笔记本电脑更耐心。 我希望除了Gameloft游戏以外的所有其他产品都能立即在iPad上加载。 在5秒钟内加载？ 是时候退出了，因为时间太长了。
This expectation of speed started with the original PalmPilot. I wrote apps for the PalmPilot - one very successful - and they always told their developers "our platform has no concept of a wait cursor. Everything must be instantaneous." That perception persists today. You touch, it jumps. Fast.
对速度的期望始于最初的PalmPilot。 我为PalmPilot编写了应用程序-一个非常成功的应用程序-他们总是告诉开发人员“我们的平台没有等待光标的概念。所有内容都必须是即时的。” 这种看法一直持续到今天。 您触摸，它会跳跃。 快速。
This is where the Surface straddles two realities. It's Windows 8. A different version in that it only runs the included Microsoft Office desktop apps, recompiled for ARM processors, and apps from the Windows Store. I haven't had any speed issues to speak of with apps in the Windows Store. The only app that has felt "pokey" is the overloaded default Mail application.
这是Surface跨越两个现实的地方。 它是Windows8。它是一个不同的版本，仅运行包含的Microsoft Office桌面应用程序(针对ARM处理器重新编译)以及Windows应用商店中的应用程序。 对于Windows应用商店中的应用程序，我没有任何速度问题。 唯一感觉到“ pokey”的应用程序是过载的默认Mail应用程序。
In fact, it's only my Ultrabook (given it's a full i7 processor) that has no issues with speed. However, it does have a fan that kicks on while the Surface and iPad run silent.
实际上，只有我的Ultrabook(考虑到它是完整的i7处理器)才没有速度问题。 但是，当Surface和iPad静音运行时，它的确会启动风扇。
笔记本电脑与平板电脑 (Laptops vs. Tablets)
For me, the Surface's greatest strength and confusing weakness is that the Surface sometimes looks like a laptop. It has a great keyboard in the Type Cover so I keep having laptop expectations. The Surface wants to be held in landscape - not vertically like an iPad. Because I want it to be a great little laptop I keep being disappointed that is isn't one. I actually removed the cover a number of times to try to force myself to use the Surface as a Tablet. In this mode, as a largely consumption-focused device, the Surface shines in ways my iPad doesn't, mostly because of two things: Its 16:9 screen ratio and the ability to really multitask two apps at once.
对我而言，Surface的最大优点和令人困惑的缺点是，Surface有时看起来像一台笔记本电脑。 它的Type Cover键盘很棒，所以我对笔记本电脑的期望很高。 Surface希望保持在风景中-而不是像iPad那样垂直放置。 因为我希望它成为一台很棒的小型笔记本电脑，所以我一直对那不是一台电脑感到失望。 实际上，我多次拆下保护套，以试图迫使自己将Surface用作平板电脑。 在这种模式下，Surface Surface作为一款以消费为重点的设备，以我的iPad没有的方式发光，这主要是由于两件事：它的16：9屏幕比例和一次真正可以同时执行两个应用程序的功能。
The screenshots below have be running Hulu and looking at my calendar. I've got Hulu on the right in the first screen, with the calendar big. Notice the Hulu app knows this and makes great use of the space when it's small. Same thing when I switch them with Hulu Large. I get a different but adaptive view of the calendar. This is a great example of the Surface (and Windows 8) shining as a Tablet. I've even considered rooting my iPad to get this kind of Multitasking. I use the iPad gestures and task switching a lot, but sometimes you just want your video playing while you do other stuff.
下面的屏幕截图正在运行Hulu并查看我的日历。 在第一个屏幕上，我将Hulu放在右边，日历很大。 注意，Hulu应用知道这一点，并在很小的时候充分利用了空间。 当我用Hulu Large切换它们时也是一样。 我对日历有不同但适应性强的看法。 这是Surface(和Windows 8)作为平板电脑发光的一个很好的例子。 我什至考虑过将iPad扎根以获得这种多任务处理。 我经常使用iPad的手势和任务切换功能，但是有时候您只想在播放视频的同时执行其他操作即可。
尺寸 (Size)
This is such a relative thing. I took the boys to the Apple Store to check out an iPad Mini. They were ALL over it. They have iPod touches and have used the iPad, but you guessed it, the iPods are squinty and the iPad is pretty big. The iPad Mini (and most 7" tablets in general including the Kindle Fire HD and slightly larger tablets like the dead (and rooted) HP TouchPad running Android.
这是这样一个相对的事情。 我带男孩去苹果商店去检查iPad Mini。 他们到处都是。 他们使用iPod touch，并且使用过iPad，但您猜对了，iPod很古板，iPad很大。 iPad Mini(以及大多数7英寸平板电脑，包括Kindle Fire HD平板电脑)和稍大一些的平板电脑，例如运行Android的已故(已扎根)的HP TouchPad。
My wife, on the other hand, currently has a 15" Dell Laptop that she likes just fine. It's about 5 years old and runs Word and Excel and Gmail and looks at pictures. She has no complaints. She's written thousands of papers on it and it's currently seeing her through a third advanced degree. She uses her iPad for Words with Friends. For her, it's literally a Words With Friends tablet, and that's cool. I showed her the Surface and told her it was "Windows, except you can only run Office and apps from The Store." She wanted to see what apps were in the store, got Bejeweled and Netflix and was happy. She then proceeded to bang out a paper using Word. I warned her she couldn't install Quicken but she said "all my apps are on the web anyway. It does Gmail, right?" So right there, Spouse Acceptance Factor (SAF or "WAF") handled. Funny thing is, she is confused her old laptop is huge now. She's clearly a good candidate for either a Surface or something in the 11" to 13" range, perhaps an Ultrabook.
另一方面，我的妻子目前拥有她喜欢的15英寸戴尔笔记本电脑。它大约有5年历史，可以运行Word和Excel和Gmail并可以查看图片。她没有怨言。她在上面写了数千篇论文。目前，她正在升读第三级学位。她使用iPad进行“与朋友交流的单词”。对她来说，这实际上是“与朋友交流的单词”平板电脑，这很酷。我给她看了Surface，并告诉她是“ Windows，除了你只能运行The Store中的Office和应用程序。”她想看看商店中有哪些应用程序，Bejeweled和Netflix感到很高兴。然后，她继续使用Word制作论文。我警告她不能安装Quicken。但她说：“无论如何，我所有的应用程序都在网络上。 它确实有Gmail，对吗？”所以就在那儿，处理了“配偶接受因子”(SAF或“ WAF”)。有趣的是，她感到困惑，因为她的旧笔记本电脑现在很大了。她显然是Surface或iPad上某些东西的不错选择11英寸到13英寸的范围，也许是一本Ultrabook。
Me, I keep coming back to my Ultrabook. It's 1600x900 resolution is nice, although I'd prefer 1080p. Perhaps the Surface Pro or a new Samsung would do. It's full Windows, plus it has a touch screen. However, it's kind of a lousy tablet as I can't flip it around or yank off its keyboard.
我，我继续回到我的超极本。 1600x900分辨率很不错，尽管我更喜欢1080p。 Surface Pro或新的Samsung可能会做。 它是完整的Windows，加上触摸屏。 但是，它有点烂，因为我无法翻转或拉动键盘。
生态系统 (Ecosystem)
即使在最近的几个月中，Windows应用商店的规模仍在不断扩大。 例如，如果Markdown编辑器的数量可以证明App Store的运行状况，则有13位Markdown编辑器，但是一半的应用程序像App Store早期那样被淘汰。 作为用户，我对是否有20,000个应用程序或100,000个应用程序不感兴趣。 这些数字对我来说意义不大，因为我将使用并喜欢和告诉朋友的100或200个应用程序。
According to the Windows Store when I select "Your Apps," I've downloaded and installed 198 apps. I have 55 pinned to my start screen and 15 are games. I'd tell my friends about all these apps and others. I'm comforted, however, as there are apps to write code with syntax highlighting so an Emacs with SSH app can't be far away. People ARE writing apps for the Surface and the Windows 8 ecosystem.
根据Windows应用商店的说法，当我选择“您的应用程序”时，我已经下载并安装了198个应用程序。 我有55个固定在我的开始屏幕上，另外15个是游戏。 我会告诉我的朋友所有这些应用程序和其他应用程序。 但是，令我感到欣慰的是，因为有些应用程序可以使用突出显示语法的代码来编写代码，所以带SSH的Emacs应用程序离我们也不远。 人们正在为Surface和Windows 8生态系统编写应用程序。
Comparing this to my iPad which has about 95 apps where 30 of them are games. These are apps that I use every week and they are apps I'd tell my friend about. In this measure, as of today the Surface lacks behind. However, 90% of the big apps I care about are there like Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, Plex, MarkPad, Pulse, Podcasts, Skype, Flixster, FitBit, All Recipes, Remote Terminal and Remote Desktop, etc. Actually, the Google Search apps is fantastic, especially the Voice Search feature which is lots of fun to impress the family with.
与此相比，我的iPad拥有约95个应用，其中30个是游戏。 这些是我每周都会使用的应用程序，它们是我会告诉我的朋友的应用程序。 在这种情况下，到目前为止，Surface仍然落后。 但是，我关心的90％大型应用都在其中，例如亚马逊，Hulu，Netflix，Plex，MarkPad，Pulse，播客，Skype，Flixster，FitBit，所有食谱，远程终端和远程桌面等。实际上，Google搜索应用程序很棒，尤其是语音搜索功能，它给家人留下了很多有趣的印象。
The iOS ecosystem has a large number of really high quality apps. I have noticed with some digging there are some gems in the Windows Store like Discourse, NextGen Reader, Google Search, ReddHub, MetroTwit, and many others. They don't all have recognizable names yet, but with time I suspect we'll seem some unknowns independent publishers become knowns.
iOS生态系统拥有大量真正高质量的应用程序。 我发现，在Windows商店中有一些宝石，例如Discourse ， NextGen Reader ， Google Search ， ReddHub ， MetroTwit等等。 他们还没有可识别的名称，但是随着时间的流逝，我怀疑我们似乎会成为一些未知的独立出版商。
积分 (Integration )
What's integration mean? Well, things should just work together. I love AirPlay, for example. It just works great. You can be on your iPad, watching a movie and then just "throw" the video up to an AppleTV, or even a Raspberry Pi. If you live the Apple lifestyle, it pretty works all works together brilliantly. Our family has two iPads, an iPhone and two iPod touches. AirPlay works, iTunes servers are shared, happiness ensures. To get AirPlay to work with my PCs, I have to install AirServer (a brilliant app, by the way) so I can throw video or even mirror my iPad to my PCs.
整合是什么意思？ 好吧，事情应该一起工作。 例如，我喜欢AirPlay。 效果很好。 您可以在iPad上观看电影，然后将视频“扔”到AppleTV甚至Raspberry Pi上。 如果您过着Apple的生活方式，那么它可以很好地协同工作。 我们一家有两台iPad，一部iPhone和两部iPod touch。 AirPlay可以工作，iTunes服务器是共享的，幸福确保。 为了使AirPlay能够与我的PC配合使用，我必须安装AirServer (顺便说一句出色的应用程序)，以便可以将视频甚至iPad镜像到PC上。
The same applies to the Surface. I've got a "Homegroup" setup (took about 5 min) and when the Surface showed up, I added it to the Homegroup. This means that my HP printer just appeared as available and default on the Surface, which was impressive to me. Also, the other machines (my wife's, the kitchen PC, my home office machine) all shared files with the Surface, again without configuration as it's all part of the Homegroup.
同样适用于Surface。 我有一个“家庭组”设置(大约需要5分钟)，当Surface出现时，我将其添加到家庭组中。 这意味着我的HP打印机在Surface上仅显示为可用和默认状态，这对我印象深刻。 另外，其他计算机(我的妻子，厨房PC，家庭办公室计算机)都与Surface共享文件，但又没有配置，因为它们都是Homegroup的一部分。
Both the Surface and the iPad talked nicely to the Xbox using the SmartGlass app, as they should. If I've got a connected device I expect it to talk to other devices without complaint and in this case they did.
无论是Surface还是iPad，都应该使用SmartGlass应用程序与Xbox进行了很好的交流。 如果我有已连接的设备，我希望它可以与其他设备通话而不会受到投诉，在这种情况下，它们确实可以通话。
Where the Surface utterly fell down was when I introduced a micro-SD card. The iPad doesn't allow for extensible memory, but for the Surface RT it's a feature so I took a 64 gig mini SD card and put it in the near-hidden slot. I expected some kind of popup followed by an integration step where I'd click OK and then have more space to store my photos and movies.
当我推出micro-SD卡时，Surface彻底掉下来了。 iPad不允许可扩展的内存，但是对于Surface RT，它是一项功能，因此我拿了一个64 gig的迷你SD卡，并将其放在近乎隐藏的插槽中。 我希望出现某种弹出窗口，然后执行一个集成步骤，在该步骤中，单击“确定”，然后有更多空间存储我的照片和电影。
It was not so, I'm afraid. The SD card showed up like just any other storage. OK, I'll add it to my Library Locations. Nope, you're prevented from adding Removable Storage to Libraries. I tried copying a bunch of Videos to the SD Card and they copied fine and played fine, but the videos (or music, or movies, or photos) don't show up in the Surface applications. Perhaps this can be fixed in some future update, but while I've taken my Surface from 32 gigs of storage to 96 gigs, it sure doesn't feel like it. I have to launch my videos from the Windows Explorer side and not get any integration on the tablet/full screen side of things. It's disappointing. Yes there are workarounds and hacks but there shouldn't have to be.
恐怕并非如此。 SD卡与其他任何存储设备一样显示。 好的，我将其添加到“库位置”。 不会，您无法将可移动存储添加到库中。 我尝试将一堆视频复制到SD卡中，并且它们可以复制并播放良好，但是视频(或音乐，电影或照片)不会显示在Surface应用程序中。 也许可以在将来的更新中解决此问题，但是当我将Surface从32个存储空间升级到96个存储空间时，肯定感觉不满意。 我必须从Windows资源管理器端启动我的视频，而不能在平板电脑/全屏端实现任何集成。 真令人失望是的，有解决方法和黑客手段，但不一定非要这样。
That said, having a USB port on the Surface is a plus. My USB mice and USB keys have all worked just fine.
也就是说，在Surface上具有USB端口是一个加号。 我的USB鼠标和USB钥匙都工作正常。
As my friend Jon says: "Apple solves media sharing, Windows solves file sharing. It would be nice if one of them solved both. Completely."
正如我的朋友乔恩(Jon)所说：“苹果解决媒体共享，Windows解决文件共享。如果其中一个解决了这两个问题，那就太好了。”
完成工作 (Getting Work Done)
Well, depends on what your work is. Take this blog post for example. It's just text and some pictures. You need a good blog editor, support to get the data into your blog and some picture editor. Being able to assemble a competent blog post (or doctoral thesis for that matter) is a good litmus test for any device that purports to do more than play games and watch movies.
好吧，取决于您的工作是什么。 以这篇博客文章为例。 这只是文字和一些图片。 您需要一个优秀的博客编辑器，并支持将数据导入您的博客和一些图片编辑器。 对于任何声称除了玩游戏和看电影以外还能做更多事情的设备，能够撰写一篇出色的博客文章(或有关该主题的博士学位论文)是一项很好的试金石。
I tried to write it on the iPad, which has a lot of great Markdown apps but no good XML-RPC blog front ends, and I don't run Wordpress. There is Blogsy, which is arguably the only decent blog editor on iOS, although there's also BlogPress. Blogsy is close and I may use it to fix the occasional typo from the road, but there's no way to crop, edit or resize photos. Fine, I'll use the iOS photo app or PhotoShop in iOS. There's not even a way to move an image like dragging it once its placed. This isn't the iPad hardware's fault but it does point out that it's challenging to do work when work consists of moving a lot of diverse data around without a file system.
我试图在iPad上编写它，iPad上有很多很棒的Markdown应用程序，但是没有很好的XML-RPC博客前端，而且我没有运行Wordpress。 有Blogsy ，可以说是iOS上唯一不错的博客编辑器，尽管还有BlogPress 。 Blogsy已经很近了，我可能会用它来修正偶尔出现的错字，但是有 无法裁剪，编辑或调整照片大小。 很好，我将使用iOS照片应用程序或iOS中的PhotoShop。 甚至没有一种方法可以像拖动图像一样移动图像。 这不是iPad硬件的问题，但它确实指出，当工作包括在没有文件系统的情况下移动大量不同数据时，进行工作具有挑战性。
The Surface RT fared a little better. Since the Surface includes Word 2013 and Word supports the MetaWeblog interface out of the box I was able to type and edit this post in Microsoft Word (who knew that Word was a reasonable Blogging app?). It works pretty well as there are no great Blogging apps on the Windows Store as of this writing. Additionally, I wasn't able to find some kind of a free Paint.NET clone to crop and markup my screenshots. The closest I found was Artefacts but at $13.99 I wasn't willing to go for it. Fortunately the Free version of Artefacts supports cropping via its "reframe" command. It's a gorgeous app but I had to dig to find it.
Surface RT的表现要好一些。 由于Surface包含Word 2013并且Word开箱即用地支持MetaWeblog界面，因此我能够在Microsoft Word(谁知道Word是一个合理的Blogging应用程序)中键入和编辑此帖子。 由于撰写本文时Windows Store上还没有出色的Blogging应用，因此它运行良好。 此外，我找不到某种免费的Paint.NET克隆来裁剪和标记我的屏幕截图。 我发现的最接近的物品是Artefacts，但以13.99美元的价格我不愿意买。 幸运的是，Artefacts的免费版本通过其“ reframe”命令支持裁剪。 这是一个很棒的应用程序，但我不得不去寻找它。
I finished this post on my Ultrabook using my favorite (and the best) blogging app, Windows Live Writer. This makes me feel like I would personally be best served by an Ultrabook (or possibly a Surface Pro, which is effectively an Ultrabook) that would let me run any Windows application, whether it's in the Store or not. I want a small, touchable, fast machine that can do anything.
我使用我最喜欢(也是最好的)博客应用Windows Live Writer在Ultrabook上完成了这篇文章。 这使我觉得最好由Ultrabook(或者可能是Surface Pro，实际上是Ultrabook)来最好地为我服务，这将使我可以运行任何Windows应用程序，无论它是否在商店中。 我想要一台可以执行任何操作的小型，可触摸，快速的机器。
结论 (Conclusion)
The iPad is a great tablet with a great ecosystem that is continuing to push the device to the limit. There are consistently great apps coming out for iOS. I'd love to see new features like picture in picture (PiP) or some basic multi-window multi-tasking. The hardware is solid and comforting. Pages and Numbers are great productivity apps for $10 additional each but the lack of seamless DropBox integration slows me down. ICloud syncing works great, however. I use my iPad for surfing, Netflix, Hulu, and Comics every day.
iPad是具有出色生态系统的出色平板电脑，正在不断将设备推向极限。 一直以来，iOS都出现了很棒的应用。 我很想看到诸如画中画(PiP)或一些基本的多窗口多任务处理等新功能。 硬件坚固耐用。 Pages and Numbers是出色的生产力应用程序，每个都需要额外支付10美元，但是缺少无缝的DropBox集成会使我的工作慢下来。 但是，iCloud同步效果很好。 我每天都使用iPad冲浪，Netflix，Hulu和Comics。
The Surface RT is a landscape tablet with an optional keyboard. It's got a great feel, good weight, is about the same size as an iPad but a little longer. The inclusion of Office (Word, Excel, etc) is a clever one and made my wife happy. I could see a Surface RT as a good balance between tablet and laptop for students, parents, and folks who can find apps that can do what what they need to do in the Windows Store.
Surface RT是带有可选键盘的风景平板电脑。 它的手感很好，重量也很好，与iPad差不多，但更长一些。 包含Office(Word，Excel等)是一个聪明的选择，使我的妻子高兴。 我可以将Surface RT视为平板电脑和笔记本电脑之间的良好平衡，让学生，家长和人们能够找到可以在Windows Store中完成所需工作的应用程序。
An Ultrabook (I have a generic) is a 11" or 13" laptop with a touch screen. They almost all have fans - today - and they are fast, light and at least twice as much money as a tablet. They are full and fabulous "everything and the kitchen sink" machines. Some are good tablets like the Yoga, and some are great laptops. I suspect that at some future point I'll find a good touchscreen Ultrabook for around $1200 at a 13" size and it will become not only my primary machine but also my primary tablet. But in order for me to stop throwing my iPad or Surface in my backpack along with my laptop - as I do on every trip - Ultrabooks will need 10 hour battery lives, reliable touchscreens and lots of apps in the App Store.
Ultrabook(我有通用名)是具有触摸屏的11英寸或13英寸笔记本电脑。 今天，他们几乎都拥有粉丝-而且速度快，重量轻，而且至少是平板电脑的两倍。 它们是功能强大而神话般的“一切和厨房水槽”机器。 有些是像Yoga这样的好平板电脑，有些是很棒的笔记本电脑。 我怀疑在将来的某个时候，我会找到一款优质的触摸屏Ultrabook，它的尺寸为13英寸，售价约为1200美元，它将不仅成为我的主要机器，而且也成为我的主要平板电脑。就像我每次旅行一样，Ultrabooks需要放在背包中以及笔记本电脑上-超级电池需要10小时的电池寿命，可靠的触摸屏以及App Store中的许多应用程序。
It's a great time to be a user of consumer electronics. Whether it's the coming Surface Pro (I haven't seen one) or a possible MacBook Air with a touchscreen (I don't know of one) I believe there will be some great choices available this coming year.
现在是消费电子产品用户的好时机。 无论是即将面世的Surface Pro(我还没有见过)还是可能的带触摸屏的MacBook Air(我都不知道有一个)，我相信来年会有很多不错的选择。
翻译自: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ipad-surface-ultrabook-are-we-there-yet
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