"The laptop that can replace the tablet that replaced your laptop is also a tablet" - someone on twitter (edit: @schaemelhout)
https://twitter.com/zzatkin/status/651445545194622976
Classy move to retweet it and attribute it to yourself.
New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
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#292One advantage that Microsoft has is better cloud services and integrated apps. I am typing this on a MacBook, but I use Office 365, and all of the cloud services and apps run just fine also on my Android phone and iPad. Perversely, Microsoft supports Linux very well: I find the web versions of the Office 365 apps useful on my Linux laptops and I use Linux VPSs on Azure.
The Surface Book blows me away. It looks like it covers all use cases except for a phone.
Apple has their advantages, primarily most people love Apple devices. They just need to improve their cloud services.
Google's huge advantage is their AI based systems. Google Now has no real competition right now.
I am almost 65, and even though I enjoy running a machine learning/AI consultancy, I am transitioning to a more complete retirement. I am looking for a "winner" in the digital life space, adopt their products, and make my leisure years simpler. But, Microsoft, Apple, and Google blow me away with their products and choosing will be difficult.
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#293What a joke. Don't they vet out and optimize the page before mass releasing a new product? Just shows why MSFT lags behind Apple and Google and Amazon. ASP.NET FTL
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#294I 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…
Exactly right! The dual operationg system approach was a good short term decision, but I also think that Apple made a mistake, taking a long term view.
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>> Could be a MBP replacement for developers. The only thing is those of us running on OS X, how is Windows 10? >> I love my command line and linux like commands and tools. - Homebrew - Bash scripts - Docker (Windows 10 currently not supported) - Vagrant I switched from OSX to Windows last year. I thought I'd miss stuff, but you don't. There are package managers like chocolatey to replace homebrew. I use Cmder as my…
I found compiling on Windows always a bit of a PITA. On Linux I just install build-essentials and everything works fine. On Windows I had to install a specific version of VS and fiddle around with the path to get things running. But maybe there is something like the build-essentials package in chocolatey? The terminal command history also feels strange. But I like cls more than clear, haha :D
I use msys and mingw for Windows compilation. It's so much easier than Visual Studio --- no messing about with stupid configuration panes and easily scriptable. I also get to use the same makefiles as the Unix port of my program.
The only difficulty is that msys doesn't support parallel make, so builds are fairly slow, but my program's small and I do most of my development on Linux, so I don't care.
(As an additional bonus --- gcc supports C99!)
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My hunch is both halves have a battery. Also that 12 hours is listed as video playback, which is not how Apple measures.
Or they're just misleading about how they measure the battery life. We used to have "8h of battery life" 10 years ago, when in fact they lasted 3h. Apple has done this, too, more and more lately unfortunately. Their "12h" battery life is more like 8h for moderate usage.
Apple products consistently get their advertised battery life (or beyond).
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#297can you install linux
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#298Not different than most current offers on laptops, the keyboard still looks horrible for programming[1]. Fn keys shared with Home/End/PgUp/PgDwn, Up/Down arrows sharing a key. I guess they call it "slick", I call it won't buy.
[1] ok, depending on what you are programming, I'm sure there will be people saying they only need the "0" and "1" keys working.
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#299I 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.
I run Linux on a VM inside my Surface Pro 2. Best of both worlds. All the touch and pen gestures are handled by Windows and carry over through VirtualBox. Would love to get a Surface Book as soon as possible.
Does you version Linux properly support the touch input?
I'm on a Lenovo T440s, and aside from a handful of gestures to manipulate window size, all Ubuntu programs insist that my touchscreen is just another mouse input. It's a bit of a bummer that I can't use proper multi-touch for my own OpenFrameworks sketches.
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#300I 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.
I run Linux on a VM inside my Surface Pro 2. Best of both worlds. All the touch and pen gestures are handled by Windows and carry over through VirtualBox. Would love to get a Surface Book as soon as possible.
Does you version Linux properly support the touch input?
I'm on a Lenovo T440s, and aside from a handful of gestures to manipulate window size, all Ubuntu programs insist that my touchscreen is just another mouse input. It's a bit of a bummer that I can't use proper multi-touch for my own OpenFrameworks sketches.