[...]I wish Microsoft would consider releasing a version of Surface Pro that dispenses with this screen and uses the 1366 x 768 Surface RT screen instead.
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You’d think that the full HD display in the Surface Pro would offer one benefit in the Metro environment: [...] But that’s not the case at all. In numerous side-by-side comparisons, I couldn’t see a lick of difference in Metro apps.
[...] you get the exact same Start screen layout, too, with just three rows of tiles.
[...] What about the desktop?
[...]Text, icons, and other on-screen elements are far too small to be useful at the default, 100 percent desktop scaling. It’s like viewing the desktop from space. So Microsoft actually ships Surface Pro with desktop scaling set to 150 percent. [...] the overall effect is that it makes the desktop seem like a 1366 x 768 display in that on-screen elements—icons, text, and so on—are now readable and even somewhat tappable with a finger.
[...] external display. [...] that’s where it all falls apart.
[...]on a desktop display, like the 27-inch 1920 x 1080 Planar screen I use, the result is a Fisher Price disaster, with gigantic on-screen elements. [...]there’s no way to set the scaling differently for each display. So you can choose between tiny on-screen elements on Surface or gigantic on-screen elements on the external display.
[...]It gets worse. The desktop’s lack of technical smarts also means that all of the application windows you use will be resetting and resizing every single tim you move between your desktop and that on-the-go configuration. Every single time. Every. Single. Time.