Windows 10: Projecting to a windows 11 laptop from a windows 10 surface pro

Hello!A user in my IT Department is wanting to project her surface pro screen to her personal laptop for an extended desktop to help with her eyes. She decided she didn't want a second monitor, so I figured setting up wireless display through the windows settings menu option "connect a wireless display". When I try to connect her surface pro to her laptop, I'm constantly getting an error message "cannot connect to device" or "cannot establish connection". I've made sure all windows and driver updates are installed on both devices, both devices are connected to the same network, as well as both

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Surface Tools for IT Update for Surface Pro and Surface Laptop

Source: Surface Tools for IT Update for Surface Pro and Surface Laptop Surface

 

Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 Pro Gets Priced

With all due respect, I think you intended to say:

However I can only guess you didn’t understand my post because I was only suggesting that people who take the time to read and post in tech forums will likely be able to tell the difference and that general consumers probably wouldn’t.

Microsoft may have released full specs on the Surface Pro but I don’t recall seeing a full spec sheet. For example, “Intel Core i5 Ivy Bridge CPU” doesn’t specify a model and CPU model would be a factor in overall price. This wouldn’t matter if there is only one Core i5 Ivy Bridge mobile CPU though (i5-3360M, i5-3320M, i5-3427U).

Furthermore your suggesting that OEM’s will release Windows 8 Pro tablets and laptops and undercut the pricing suggests that you are unaware that OEM’s have already released products. For what its worth there is a range (Atom, i3, i5 and for laptops i7) but the pricing is similar to Microsoft’s offering in the Surface Pro for similar OEM hardware in the same form-factor. An example of this is Acer Iconia Tab W700 series, Acer Iconia Tab W500 series, Samsung ATIV SmartPC Pro XE500xx, Samsung ATIV SmartPC Pro XE700xx,….

As I stated before though, when you shrink the product you often pay more money with respect to processing power. So comparing a general 17”, 15” or 13” laptop to a sub 11” screen PC touch tablet isn’t the same thing.

 

Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 Pro Gets Priced

Look at the links I provided above. Surface Pro is priced competitively for ultrabook/tablet. Yes, you can get old fashion laptops for less and better equiped but it isn't an old fashion laptop.