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New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
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#12I think they've pulled the rug from under other HW vendors, and that is well-deserved (for the vendors). MS essentially made the ultimate Windows PC (tablet, pen, long battery life, powerful GPU if needed), after waiting for the partners for years.
Arguably, the vendors needed it.
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#13I think the Surface Book is finally something that can give the MacBook Pro line a run for its money, this should be interesting.
Surface book looks very interesting.
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#14I think they've pulled the rug from under other HW vendors, and that is well-deserved (for the vendors). MS essentially made the ultimate Windows PC (tablet, pen, long battery life, powerful GPU if needed), after waiting for the partners for years.
Arguably, the vendors needed it.
Yeah, the high-end Windows laptops these days are all mostly Apple knock-offs. No wonder everyone who's serious wants the real thing instead. So Microsoft made a hero laptop that isn't a MacBook knock-off. Now the Windows OEMs will start knocking it off instead.
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#15I wonder if I can get it to run Linux. That would make a pretty nice machine, if so. Edit: I'm not hating on Windows. I just don't prefer it.
Linux does not support hybrid graphics properly. (I've got a Zbook G2, dockable, Nvidia + Intel. I'm developing for Linux, so it'd be great to run Linux on it, but it's not practical at all.)
At this point, it definitely works, but it depends on the distro and how much tweaking you're willing to do. I've got hybrid graphics working on a Dell XPS 15 with no real problems. Bumblebee works like a charm when set up correctly. The battery life isn't perfect, but it's still much better than just running the nvidia chip.
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#16I think the Surface Book is finally something that can give the MacBook Pro line a run for its money, this should be interesting.
My thoughts exactly. To me, OS/X's quality has been slipping, but I haven't found any non-Apple hardware that's comparable. If they get the trackpad and keyboard right on it, this will open a lot of interesting doors.
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#17Next year there will be a Surface Pro 5 (5"), Pro 8 (8") and Pro 12 (12") all with pens. 12 will be the successor to current Surface Pro 4.
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#18I think the Surface Book is finally something that can give the MacBook Pro line a run for its money, this should be interesting.
Credit to Panos and everyone who put that together, I didn't see the removable screen coming. That was the kind of "one more thing" moment that rivals Apple at their best showmanship.
Right before he said that I noticed the vents in the top of the screen and thought "huh, that's a weird place to put ventilation" but it didn't click in my mind until I saw it in the video.
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#19The surface book looks nice. I like the idea of tablet/laptop hybrid, but not a fan of kick stands and keyboard covers. I liked the idea of Asus's transformers but I don't recall seeing one with really good specs. They were either Android(don't need a laptop there) or the Windows ones I remembers seeing were Atom powered.
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#20Funny how both fruity and glassy company "inspire" each other - first fruit's version of surface, now glass' version of a "book" :-D