Wow, could they make it look more like a Mac Book? Apple will have to come up with a different look for theirs now.
New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
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#952Wow, could they make it look more like a Mac Book? Apple will have to come up with a different look for theirs now.
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Why wouldn't you be able to do that? Seems logical that it would work. Unless Microsoft changed the pen manufacturer (again).
It does work. Microsoft bought n-trig last year.
Ah, I'd been wondering how they had single-handedly managed to take on N-Trig and Wacom with in-house tech. Makes a lot more sense now. I'd missed the acquisition.
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There's been remoting in powershell since V2 the only cool thing about SSH is linux gets to join the party. And that is very cool
Have you actually tried to use Powershell remoting? When you try to do remote automation on Windows machines you land in this Bizarro world where some things work with psexec, some with remoting, and some not at all. A working, secure protocol where things actually execute on the remote machine will be very welcome, and when we think SSH that's what we're excited about. (The hit-and-miss nonsense I'm talking about wa…
The only hassle I've had is trying to use external resources while already in a session. e.g. enter-pssession "someserver"; copy-item "\\netshare" .
In thins case you need to further enable CredSSP on your domain to allow passing on your auth credentials through the session to the third machine.
Any cmdlet I've seen that doesn't take a session (wmi or cim) I've just wrapped up into invoke-expression -computername "commands..."
Ps remoting lets me do great things like import module from servers to clients that I don't have remote tools installed on. e.eg. $session = new-cimInstance "domainController"; import-module activedirectory -sessions $session
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Something I do want to note: everyone seems to only ever look at two, maybe three companies for "serious" notebooks: Dell, Lenovo, and (maybe) HP. However, I've found that by far the best company to buy laptops from is Asus. The latest example of this I've seen is the Asus Zenbook UX305LA. The specs are: 8GB Ram 256 SSD Intel Core i5-5200U 1080p IPS display A keyboard devoid of obviously poor layout[0] Nice large mul…
I've found the general quality of Asus machines, especially the zen book to be exceedingly poor when trying to come off of a MacBook Pro. The touchpad and keyboards typically are horrible. That's what matters to me more than ram or Cpu.
which ones? The zenbooks have been pretty sweet, accurate trackpads, decent keys, although personal preference is hard to really nail down. build quality pretty good, screens could give you 1920 matte screen even back to their 2012 iterations.
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#956Why on earth is it so hard to find video of the keynote? Here we have a genuinely exciting product announcement with a brilliant "one more thing" hook, and I can't find the video. Microsoft should have it plastered over every news outlet in the world. I found the video below (with 97 views!?), which makes me really want a Surface Book...and then it cuts off RIGHT BEFORE the big reveal! Microsoft seems to have caught…
It's at the same URL as the live stream:
http://www.microsoft.com/october2015event/en-us/live-event
But yeah there should be a big link right on the front of Microsoft.com to watch the recorded event.
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I know, and stand by what I said.
Wait, really? So the things mentioned in the comment thread on this¹ post mean less to you than getting a trackpoint? In any case, Lenovo isn’t the only manufacturer that includes a pointing stick in their laptops. HP’s EliteBook series, for example, has one. There’s a full list of manufacturers here². ―――――― ¹ — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10039306 ² — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick#Naming_and…
Yes, far worse. A laptop without a nub-style pointer is effectively keyboard-only. Worse than keyboard-only if there is no way to disable the touchpad.
I know that elitebooks, latitudes, etc used to have these too. None of them do anymore.
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I have a Sony Vaio Pro 13.3", 1080P, i7, 256GB SSD, 8GB, 2.3lbs, touchscreen; dual booting, but primarily running in Linux. It will cover me through this entire tech cycle. The above mentioned "premium fatal flaw" in this case is the terrible internal wifi, but a micro-usb wifi has corrected that. I also fixed IMO the glossy display with a screen protector. Other than those two issues, I really like it. When it's fin…
Another Vaio Pro 13 user here :) Have you tried the internal Wifi with a newer Linux distribution? I'm using Ubuntu 15.04 and it works great :) No disconnects, speed good be better though ... Regarding a replacement: What do you think about the Librem 13? It's one of my favorites along with the Dell XPS 13 and the Lenovo X1 Carbon.
I'm running Mint 17.2 which switched to following Ubuntu LTS releases only. So, I haven't tried a newer Ubuntu, but the wifi is terrible in Win8 too. The "Panda Ultra 150Mbps Wireless N USB Adapter" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00762YNMG was my solution for a massive range/reliability increase.
Related: This screen protector makes the glossy display usable outside: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HDTVJKQ
I'm really happy to see the Librem 13 nearing existence, but it's not ideal for me: i5 only, no back-lit keyboard. Up to 16GB and the matte screen is awesome though. The X1 Carbon 1st/3rd Gens are great, but Lenovo is being so bad recently.
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Can you use the old dock with the Surface Pro 4?
Pretty sure I heard the presenter say 'surface pro dock, yes I said surface pro not surface pro 4 because the 3 works on it, too'. Should double check though.
I've heard this detail but I am curious about the other way around.
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Good point, but not ideal for everyone. Especially with IOMMU and an SSD, performance isn't so bad when it works. I haven't liked the overhead with this in the past though, plus no full disk encryption, (although I guess you could do it in the guest), and Windows security in general, and bad 3D drivers for the guest (compositing please), and anything that wants low level hardware access is out. So if you don't actual…
Windows security in general is better than Linux security in general.Unless you are running Grsec/PaX but hey i do not believe you do that on desktop. Also you can still run EMET on Windows.
Sorry, I didn't really mean to say that Windows securtiy is inherantly worse, so I should probably rephrase. What I mean is I am more comfortable dealing with client security issues on Linux systems than with Windows. Of course you're right that I'm not running grsec patches.
I feel like I know how to reduce the attack surface a bit more easily on linux client systems. Most OEM Windows installations are pretty bad, so I would want to install Windows myself, sans crapware, and with unneeded built in services, apps and hooks and so on removed. If the bootloader was locked, I'm not sure whether I could reinstall the Windows OS of my choosing. Maybe these products have less crap on them though, since the OS image comes directly from Microsoft.
I didn't mean to refer to situations other than personal clients used by me, and I don't really have an opinion about this in general, except maybe: It depends... :)