joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ

I've seen some very complimentary reviews of the Surface Pro 4 for use in the field downloading and editing photos with PS and LR. It comes with a pen tool that seems to create a Wacom tablet editing interface. Any real world experience among my fellow Hogs. I've been using my I Pad Mini while traveling to backup Raw images and do minor editing with the LR and PS mobile apps.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

The advantage is that a Surface is a fully featured Windows computer, so you can load fully featured applications. That being said, I would not want to run Lightroom or Photoshop with only 8 Gb or RAM. My RAW images from a Nikon D810 are just too friggin big. That being said, one major difference between Windows and iOS is with a Windows system you can plug in a USB reader and view photographs without having to transfer them to internal storage like you do with iOS.

WayneT Loc: Paris, TN

You can purchase Surface Pros with 16G of RAM and up to 512G SSD. You can go bigger with the Surface Book with up to a Tb in an SSD. I personally use a Vaio Canvas with 16GB of RAM and 512GB M.2 SSD. My Vaio can handle anything my desktop can handle and that's an i7 2011 V.3 motherboard with 32Gb of Ram and an 1Gb m.2 and a 1Gb SSD as the first two drives. It's a fast computer but My Vaio is a little faster, plus it has an SD slot, 2-USB3 slots and an RJ45 socket built in. I just watch my Vaio to be sure I don't overload it and carry an extra 2Tb WD Passport to catch any overage on the laptop. The beauty on the Laptop is I use it for both photo and art and it's like using a Wacom Cintiq as I draw and correct directly on the screen like you can do on the Surface. I'll put my Vaio Canvas up against any Apple laptop any day of the week.

joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ

Thanks for the Vaio info, I will check it out.

rafikiphoto Loc: Spain

I use the Surface Pro 3 for travelling. Top spec and it works great with Capture One Pro 10x, travels well with the dedicated keyboard attached and carried in a soft third party case.

Plieku69 Loc: The Gopher State, south end

I am typing this on a Surface Pro 4 with 8 gb ram. It works well with Adobe CC programs. No bogging down. My Surface 3 had 2 gb and it choked badly on Publisher and large files. Not so much with Photoshop. The 4 is fine. My issues, one that can be solved, is calibrating the monitor. I have Colormunki and need to run it without the disk.
Other than that is is great, the new keyboard is 500% better than the older one. Battery life is great. I have not tried to use the pen for editing, though it works great for freehand drawing.
Microsoft is now pushing the Surface Laptop, near as I can tell it is a Pro 4 with a new name.

Ken

joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ

Thank you everyone for your reviews/comments.