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Re: Introducing Surface Laptop

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Video and more info here: https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2017/05/02/introducing-sur...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-s

Windows 10 S integrates with OneDrive so files are saved to the cloud, in sync and accessible from your devices. Use compatible apps available from the Windows Store. If you need to use professional tools or would rather run non-Store apps, you can easily and affordably switch to Windows 10 Pro.7

Re: Introducing Surface Laptop

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post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah that sounds like Windows RT but up-gradable if needed. The thing is, for a lot of people just running Office and a browser they'll be happy. What a lot of people won't like is having Edge only as their browser though.

Mozilla and Google are free to add their browsers to store.

Though it's unlikely they'll want to maintain another distribution for Windows while most Windows users are still on Windows 7.

Re: Introducing Surface Laptop

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post #22

Let's stop doing clickbait on HN please.

I have seen a few messages about this being clickbait. I am confused by this. I clicked on a link and it is an unveiling of a new Surface which seems to be a Chromebook competitor since it is aimed at the education market. That seems to be in line with what the title says. What qualifies this as clickbait?

When it was first posted it was before any announcement, thus the headline was based on guesswork and rumours as opposed to linking to an article containing any actual information.

Re: Introducing Surface Laptop

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They're now demoing the Surface Laptop. Thinner than a MacBook Air. Faster than a MacBook Pro. Longer battery life than either. The downside? "Windows 10 S", which only runs apps from the Windows Store. The upside over Windows RT from the Windows 8 era? You can port Win32 apps to the Store today, don't think you could back then. Edit: You can upgrade Windows 10 S to ordinary Windows 10 Pro for $50. Laptops that run W…

Can you put Electron apps in Windows store so they could run on Windows 10 S?

Well yes. Electron apps are still win32 apps underneath.

There's also a 'native' HTML+JS stack for UWP/Win10.

Re: Introducing Surface Laptop

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Dead on Arrival for our company. We only buy Thunderbolt 3 equipped notebooks for compatibility with our Dockingstation-Flexdesk setups.

I would have bought them in a heartbeat over Dell XPS 13s for our Customer Support guys.

It makes me really sad because this points to longer clinging to the Surface Pro 3 Connector, so the next Surface Pro & Surface Book are likely not to ditch it in favor of TB3. I'm still on my Surface Pro 2 and want to upgrade badly, but this makes me look elsewhere. Sadly.

Re: Introducing Surface Laptop

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post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mozilla and Google are free to add their browsers to store.

Though it's unlikely they'll want to maintain another distribution for Windows while most Windows users are still on Windows 7.

I'm not sure how easily win32 apps can be ported to the store, might be worth the trouble.

Re: Introducing Surface Laptop

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They're now demoing the Surface Laptop. Thinner than a MacBook Air. Faster than a MacBook Pro. Longer battery life than either. The downside? "Windows 10 S", which only runs apps from the Windows Store. The upside over Windows RT from the Windows 8 era? You can port Win32 apps to the Store today, don't think you could back then. Edit: You can upgrade Windows 10 S to ordinary Windows 10 Pro for $50. Laptops that run W…

Can you put Electron apps in Windows store so they could run on Windows 10 S?

The Windows Store already supports HTML/JS-based apps, but not using electron. (It uses Microsoft Edge's engine IIRC)
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