New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

Post by outworlder » Tue, Oct 06, 2015, 9:20 PM UTC

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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…

The human biases related to paradox of choice type issues are real, but there are all sorts of ways to manage that for yourself. You end up with something objectively better if push through the psychological toll that a lot of choices takes on humans. Sometimes this is clearly worthwhile, sometimes not. It's totally reasonable to make the choice that a lowest common denominator set of features is acceptable if it mea…

Post by dogma1138 » Tue, Oct 06, 2015, 9:20 PM UTC

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USB ports, dock, and SD card will work no matter what orientation the screen is in.

Sure, but it seems like if they wanted to be able to connect USB devices while the Book is in a tablet mode, they would simply put USB ports on the screen instead of engineering a fancy reversible hinge. Ports just don't seem like the killer reason to offer that mode. Usually the keyboard-folded-back mode is offered in lieu of a detachable screen.

Post by outworlder » Tue, Oct 06, 2015, 9:24 PM UTC

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I think the num pad is a huge addition. I use it both in Excel and Photoshop. that being said i love this device more than anything ive seen since the XPS 13

This is 100% a decision in line with much of the core premium Windows audience - corporate employees who use Excel and other programs with numerical data entry on a daily basis. There has been massive encroachment of MBP and MBAs into the corporate world as BYOD policies have been adopted. Very smart move.

Post by brudgers » Tue, Oct 06, 2015, 9:26 PM UTC

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I 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.

Post by Arnavion » Tue, Oct 06, 2015, 9:27 PM UTC

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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…