Anybody have any idea about memory? How much gigs of RAM it compromises ?
Since the Surface Pro 4 has up to 16GB of RAM, I'd assume this has at least that.
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#102Next 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.
They already have Surface (10.8") and Surface Pro (12"), so I don't see that changing.
There was speculation of a Surface Phone, but with the Lumia 950XL being pen compatible and still keeping the Lumia name, it's very unlikely.
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Neoprene sleeves are pretty inexpensive and would afford a little more protection.
It's an inconvenience though.
Not really? My VAIO Z has lived inside a sleeve in my back-pack its entire life. I just slide it in and out of the sleeve at the same time as putting it away.
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#104I think the Surface Book is finally something that can give the MacBook Pro line a run for its money, this should be interesting.
I had a long discussion a few weeks ago with some friends about how in the short term, Apple messed up with iOS/OS X while Microsoft took the hard, long, correct route and made the OS work in both places.
This was after the launch of the iPad Pro which is xbox-huge. I was imagining a product which was a MacBook "Base" which you could connect an iPad to as the 'screen' - except you'd have two different OSes that you'd have to cover. It's not exactly a product that fits anywhere in Apple's lineup.
This Microsoft thing is exactly what I was envisioning. You have a solid base which can include a GPU and more battery life and a detachable screen that works as a tablet. Brilliant!
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#105Surface Book looks neat but is it an admission that the Surface Pro and its flexible keyboard, kickstand, etc. perhaps aren't the best design?
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Panos was an obnoxious douche, the products and "One more thing" reveal deserved a much better presenter.
Funny, I thought he just did one of the best product launch presentations of the last few years. He gave it more personality, passion, and authenticity than you normally see in these type of things. To each their own I guess.
Authenticity? The guy comes off as a sleazy frustrated 2nd hand car salesman who doesn't even believe the crap he's shoveling. It's not even a matter of taste, telling people they should be excited and their too stupid for not having realized the Surface is the best thing ever made, is plain obnoxious.
The guy demoing Continuum was much more likable, MS needs more him and less panos.
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If they are able to optimize the Oculus for this hardware, it could be a winning combination.
Why? Are you really going to drag an Oculus out to a coffee shop etc. and flail around in a VR world to everyone else's amusement? Not to mention you'll have a heck of a time getting positional tracking setup in a public environment.
No, I wasn't thinking about mobility. I was thinking that this may sell pretty well, the price is adequate for the specs, and it's standardized (just one product, unlike HP or Lenovo with their Z, X, P, T32... variations).
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#108In closed state, the surface book has a giant gap between screen and keyboard ( https://goo.gl/n5B7Te ). I think, it can easily happen that things in your backpack slip between screen and keyboard and damage the screen. That is why the old Thinkpads used to have a "click" mechanism.
That is a design to allow for accessories. Like a pouch or a surface-book-empty-space-between-screen-and-keyboard-cushion.
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#109Silverlight or Flash needs to be installed? ... Eh no, thank you. Googling for Surface Book reveals enough; a beefy (but Ultra-thin) Ultrabook with Skylake CPU + Nvidia GPU and detachable as tablet. Surface Pro is similarly specced with a Skylake CPU based tablet as successor to the previous version. Dutch Tweakers.net: http://tweakers.net/nieuws/105651/microsoft-brengt-zijn-eers... http://tweakers.net/nieuws/105648/…
The CPU and RAM are inside the tablet, the GPU is inside the keyboard.
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> So they managed to let you hot-plug the GPU while the OS is running? Yes. And I think they said that with DirectX 12 it'll split the load between GPUs when both are connected.
I'm curious how this works in practice? I have a laptop with AMD integrated + dedicated graphics, and AMD's implementation with dual-graphics resulted in herky-jerky framerates (it seemed to alternate between the GPUs, so frames rendered with the integrated one took slightly longer than the dedicated one). I ended up telling the driver not to do that and just use the dedicated GPU (and splitting the work didn't reall…
It's a DirectX 12 feature that software developers have to opt-in to, and it is up to the software developer to figure out how they plan to spread the workload across the GPUs, but they can program against any and every GPU on a device regardless of manufacturer now. (The fun thing here will be to see software handle hot drops as GPUs get attached/reattached with the Surface Book.)