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Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Wow, this page is a mess - here's an element based breakdown of the switching elements in their presentation: MSFT: - nav 1 - nav 2 - header with what sounds like a call to action, but no button to buy? - hero image with text overlaid that has terrible contrast nobody will read - inter-page menus with some insane zooming function that scared my browser - another hero image - 3 columns - maybe buttons? no not clickabl…

Turn off JS. Then it works fine. I think their servers are hammered.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Because I use Emacs, I was pumped when I saw that the keyboard has symmetrical keys around the spacebar like a Thinkpad or Microsoft's own Natural Ergonomic 4000 keyboard.

Then I went to the computer with the big monitor and zoomed in on the keyboard photo. The assignments are committee meeting fucked. Fn and <- instead of two Cntl's on the third key outboard. Oh well.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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That's what the OEMs get for not being able to put out a laptop that could compete with Apple in all those years, they always managed to introduce some fatal flaw in their premium laptops, from weird keyboard layouts to bad fan management software. Let's hope the Surface Book will be succesful and Apple finally gets serious competition in the premium laptop market.

I dunno; My Acer S7 was definitely a competent MacBook Air competitor. They were out there, if you looked.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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post #550

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Including the href="" bit?

Just the values. The same things you'd get by accessing the href property in JavaScript.

Well, with just grep and curl, it'd be something like:

    curl http://slashdot.org/ | grep -o "href=[\"'][^\"']*" | sed -e "s/href=\"//"

But presumably this is being discounted due to the lack of HTML parsing, so not the same as the Powershell example. Then one somewhat ugly method would be using the html xml utilities provided by the W3C and available on most package managers:

    curl http://slashdot.org/ | hxpipe 2> /dev/null | grep Ahref | sed -e "s/Ahref CDATA //"
Obviously not as pretty, but it does do a nice job of going through the HTML tree, and doesn't rely on nicely formed XML that /usr/bin/xpath would.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Microsoft has been chasing Apple for a while now, but chasers never win, because they depend on whom they are chasing for instructions. They even hired the Apple store firm to do their stores. Now they are making notebooks at Apple's price points. What's ironic is Microsoft has often tried things first. They tried tablets and hybrid laptops and smartphones before Apple. They even tried flat design before Apple. They…

?!

You missed the iPad Pro?

Microsoft have always been confident enough to go in their own direction. Apple are playing catch-up now.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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I still miss the z series... But the z series had ethernet ports. This surface thing is useless to me.

I use a surface and I have an ethernet to USB adapter, works pretty well.

But then you loose the USB port. But the main problem of USB adapters is that they don't like being unplugged and plugged back which happens quite frequently with a laptop. With a real port connectivity is pretty much instantaneous. I used USB adapters for a while on a MacBook pro and came to the conclusion that I will never ever buy a laptop without ethernet ports.

What I wonder is why they don't come up with a mini-ethernet port format? Ethernet ports aren't exactly high tech.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Exactly this ... outside of ThinkPad, many Windows hardware options have been pretty embarrassing.

I'm relatively unfamiliar with ThinkPads and happened to be looking at them yesterday. Here's my problem with ThinkPads (as well as most other Windows laptop vendors): http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/?menu-id=laptops Which ThinkPad are you talking about? ThinkPad X, ThinkPad T, ThinkPad W, ThinkPad Yoga, ThinkPad E, ThinkPad L, or ThinkPad Helix, or ThinkPad 11E? Let's say we're talking about ThinkPad T.. Which…

That's the issue right there. You get swamped by options, some may be good, most are crappy. How can you tell? Sometimes they'll add a letter and an otherwise good product will be a crappy mess.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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None of the Surface Pro range has ever been either flimsy or plasticky. At the launch, Sinofsky put wheels on a Surface Pro and used it as a skateboard....

You ever use their keyboard?

Yes, I've used all the Surface Pro keyboards. However, the keyboard is an optional accessory. You can use just about any USB or Bluetooth keyboard you like. You can probably get something industrial strength, if that's what you need....

However, I suspect we're talking at cross-purposes here. I don't know about the Surface Book keyboard. I watched the webcast but have not had a hands-on....

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

#679

That's what the OEMs get for not being able to put out a laptop that could compete with Apple in all those years, they always managed to introduce some fatal flaw in their premium laptops, from weird keyboard layouts to bad fan management software. Let's hope the Surface Book will be succesful and Apple finally gets serious competition in the premium laptop market.

>That's what the OEMs get for not being able to put out a laptop that could compete with Apple in all those years

Dell XPS line-up is quite nice, and on par with any Apple laptop.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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post #462

That's what the OEMs get for not being able to put out a laptop that could compete with Apple in all those years, they always managed to introduce some fatal flaw in their premium laptops, from weird keyboard layouts to bad fan management software. Let's hope the Surface Book will be succesful and Apple finally gets serious competition in the premium laptop market.

This! At least from the initial look and spec it looks like they did a lot of the things right and put effort in making this nice. Yes there are things that maybe I can get by without but the basics looks fantastic. You don't chip $50 off a premium laptop and make it crappy. OEM just keeps making too many model at every price point .. at every 20 dollars it feels like. While I hate the almost singular choice for OsX…

>You don't chip $50 off a premium laptop and make it crappy

I got that kind of feeling though when he was talking about both the Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book. The SP4 is thicker than it could be because you wanted to add a full USB-A??? WHY?? and there are USB-A and not USB-C and a full SD slot on the Book ... WHY??? It made me ill to see them add that shit. It felt like typical MS snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Full SD?? Not micro SD??? Not mini SD??? Why again??? sigh

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