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It's an inconvenience though.
How would you rather treat your $1500+ piece of technology? I don't throw that sort of money around lightly.
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The specs say the Maximum Operating Altitude is "-300m to +4877m".
Where? I'm getting it from http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-band/en-us/support/hardwa... and it says Maximum operating altitude: +1200 m (3937 feet)
I wish there were a better distinction between the two; this should be called the Band 2, not the "new Band." This is made worse by the fact that your link is reachable by clicking "Support" -> "Hardware" -> "Microsoft Band Specifications." Nothing in that path suggests anything about the old Band.
The specs for the new Band are at https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-band/en-us/features - you have to click on "tech specs." This supports the -300 to +4877 meters number.
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I think that complaining about "too much choice" is disingenuous. One of the things I don't like about the Apple eco-system is that there is hardly any choice. Choosing between a tablet and a laptop is not really making a choice. It must be hell for you to by a car...
I'm a fan of Mazda. Your analogy would make more sense if instead of Mazda offering a choice of compact (Mazda 3), sedan (Mazda 6), or sports car (Mazda Miata), instead Mazda decided to build a lineup of: * Mazda6L (Our most green Mazda 6) * Mazda6 Yoga (Our Mazda 6 that transforms into a Miata) * Mazda6W (Our power version) * Mazda6T (Our version which includes more gizmos) * Mazda6X (Our version which includes even…
* Mazda 6 SE Saloon
* Mazda 6 SE-L Saloon
* Mazda 6 Sport Saloon
* Mazda 6 SE Tourer
* ...
... and then within each trim level, with or without nav
... and then within each, auto or manual transmission
... and then within each, petrol or diesel engines (sometimes several power levels)
... and then of course colours, paints and fabrics and alloy wheels and all that cosmetic stuff.
Admit it, there's more different option in a car configurator even at Mazda than in a laptop manufacturer's line-up.
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…
[1] http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Microsof...
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.
Exactly this ... outside of ThinkPad, many Windows hardware options have been pretty embarrassing.
Cons:
- It's a bit pricey
- Gamery branding
- Not a lot of ports
Does anyone have more details on the "NVIDIA GeForce"? I can't find the model, memory or any other info. What I really want to know is how powerful the GPU really is, and some benchmarks, but for now just some model-number or series-letter would be fine.
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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…
And every price point has one thing you want that the other ones don't have, so you end up sophie's choice-ing your way through Dell's website. And then you go from their Home to their Business site and the prices, features, bundles, and add-ons are different for the same hardware. It's the same reason Google started making Nexus phones: so that someone , somewhere , would make a good Android phone without messing so…
The problem Google have though is they have zero input into the hardware design, other than choosing from the existing models. So their ability to prevent cock ups only extends to the software.
Except there was the Nexus 7 TRIM issue that killed SSD performance and took a year to patch. I suppose they've had a lot to learn.
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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
"Fun fact": Steve Jobs is said to have admired Sony [0] and things like the MacBook Air is presumably inspired by the Sony VAIO X505 [1]. [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...