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I really like how this site does that, while other sites flood the front page with 8 threads of the same thing.
like when steve jobs died there was only one top story? i hope this is a new standard and not special treatment for microsoft - it's super helpful to merge the topics and other important threads should be also handled this way.
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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…
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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…
As a long-time Thinkpad owner, there are really only two answers for most tech-savvy users with typical needs (media, browsing, travel, and maybe programming): The X series and the T4XXs models.
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It doesn't sound like you are making fair comparisons between Thinkpads and Macbooks. My 15" T550 is just .2 lbs heavier than a 15" Macbook Pro. The charger for my T550 is much lighter than the one I have for my Macbook Pro, so the overall weight might actually favor the Thinkpad. The 13" business-class ultrabooks that Lenovo sells are pretty close in weight to the 13" Macbook Pro and the Macbook Air. It sounds like…
Thinkpad W520. Core i7, like a Macbook. 16GB of RAM, like a Macbook. Spinning hard drive, worse than a Macbook. Has a desktop video card that is required in order to use video out, but you have to reboot and enable the video card, then it won't sleep until you reboot and disable the card... unlike a Macbook. Because Nvidia won't make Linux drivers for Optimus. No, it's not in the same class as a Macbook, that's half…
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No function keys though :(
Not stand-alone, no. I've had the laptop since it was first introduced and I've found I've missed stand-alone function keys exactly... zero times. Your mileage may vary I guess.
Also I don't have a picture of the keyboard at hand, but what about turning brightness / volume up and down?
I remember this being the only flaw I saw in the S7.
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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…
Regular ethernet is so ubiqutious that you'd end up needing adaptors anyway. At that stage, you may as well use a USB-whatever to Ethernet adaptor.
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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…
This is what I was hopeful for when VAIO was spun off of SONY last year. When I saw the "machined magnesium body" line in their video [1] I was immediately reminded of the VAIO laptops that had beautiful material way back in the 90's. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVfOe5mFbAE&feature=youtu.be
[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=steve+jobs+admiration+for+so... [1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/6/5385716/sony-vaio-iconic-pc...
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* 128GB / Core Intel i5 - 8GB ($1499) * 256GB / Core Intel i5 - 8GB ($1699) * 256GB / Core Intel i5 - 8GB / dGPU ($1899) * 256GB / Core Intel i7 - 8GB / dGPU ($2099) * 512GB / Core Intel i7 - 16GB / dGPU ($2699)
Are any of those quad cores? I've been trying to find the actual cpu models but I can't seem to find them mentioned anywhere.
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How can we trust Microsoft Azure then?! Not even able to serve their own product
https://www.microsoft.com/surface/assets/.. . is resolving to 2600:1409:a:18c::2768, which is owned by Akamai. But your point still stands: even Microsoft doesn't trust Azure's CDN offering.