Surface Pro 4 vs iPad mini 2 scrolling smoothness

Here's an example of a little detail you'd hardly ever find mentioned in a traditional product review.

The device on the left is a Surface Pro 4 with this website open in the Edge browser. On the right is an iPad mini 2 with the same page in Safari. My fingers are off camera, but I'm slowly sliding up on each display as if I were reading the article casually.

Notice the jitter on the Surface Pro 4. My guess is that either Microsoft's touch driver is wonky (not surprising) or maybe the digitizer itself is less precise, but the 2-year-old iPad mini is perfectly smooth by comparison. It's still possible to read while slowly scrolling on the Surface of course, but the experience is just... suckier.

This slight suck is something that many people would just adapt their behavior to, probably unconsciously. They'd just scroll faster and less frequently, or scroll in large chunks. The difference isn't as obvious as Android vs iOS a few years ago, but it's still an unnecessary quirk that makes using the Surface as a tablet less pleasant.

I never ended up publishing my review of the Surface Pro 4, but even putting the terrible driver issues and lack of apps aside, there are so many similar annoyances (like stylus lag) that I'd be hard-pressed to recommend it to anyone looking to replace an iPad. Microsoft might fix Windows' bigger issues within the next year or two, but I have a feeling that little details like these will continue to suck for much longer.