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Re: Microsoft Surface Go 2 review

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Post by tiew9Vii »

lentil_soup wrote: post #15

You reckon these kind of tablet/laptops would be able to handle remote desktop smoothly? Since the quarantine started I've been using my laptop to remote desktop to my PC in the office (I need a pretty hefty machine so a laptop doesn't cut it). I've been surprised how well it works and opens a world of possibilities for me. I'd imagine I'm not the only one realizing this.

Should be perfect for that kind of thing. A few people use iPads for Remote Desktop.

The previous version ran Linux on it to. I don’t need one but finding myself trying to talk myself out of one. As a secondary device for travel or just throwing in a bag to browse, email etc it seems ideal. My iPad goes goes ok but think I’d struggle using it as a primary device on a work trip and prefer that more for consuming media / annotating PDFs / docs.

Re: Microsoft Surface Go 2 review

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Post by ABS »

syllogism wrote: post #20
ABS wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have the exact opposite complaint :-) the kickstand is not a problem but performance is so abysmal I can basically keep only one application open at the time. I often wondered what I was doing wrong since many people are reasonably happy with its performance but never found an answer, even after disabling everything that can be disabled.

Did you check the heat? Maybe you got a lemon and it was constantly being CPU throttled.

thanks, it's slow as soon as it starts while everything looks normal (CPU, temp, etc).

And I got the higher spec Go so proper SSD, max RAM, etc

Re: Microsoft Surface Go 2 review

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Post by mattlondon »

lentil_soup wrote: post #15

You reckon these kind of tablet/laptops would be able to handle remote desktop smoothly? Since the quarantine started I've been using my laptop to remote desktop to my PC in the office (I need a pretty hefty machine so a laptop doesn't cut it). I've been surprised how well it works and opens a world of possibilities for me. I'd imagine I'm not the only one realizing this.

I wondered a similar thing regarding remote development using VS Code's remote-dev plugins (for SSH and/or Containers).

I've done this workflow (i.e. used a local VS Code to develop on code hosted on a remote machine) quite a lot, but always using fairly well specced laptops (Core i7s, 16+gb ram etc) to connect to the remote and the experience has largely been seamless.

Anyone got any experience of this?

Looking at my local VS Code now as I am connected to a remote SSH host working on a very small python workspace it is using a couple of hundred meg of ram and fluctuating from 0-2% CPU on a i7 quad core. I don't have a large workspace in something more demanding (i.e. something where the IDE can do something useful unlike with python where it is a glorified notepad) to test with right now though :(

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Post by fiskfiskfisk »

emilfihlman wrote: post #14
GEBBL wrote: post #2

Damn, why are TechCrunch hijacking the browsers back button behaviour? I had to close down my browser instance complete and then open a new one to come back to this thread. Awful.

It's not directly an issue with TechCrunch but the lack of an api that does not push a history state OR pollute your history. Ie you can't change the visible URL without at least one of these happening (and it's infuriating)!

Isn't that what the `History.replaceState()` method achieves?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History/rep...

Re: Microsoft Surface Go 2 review

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Post by tim-- »

jl6 wrote: post #17

My Surface Pro 4 just died this weekend to the “screen scramble” issue. As I bought it more than 3 years ago, Microsoft are asking me to pay >$700 for a replacement. OK, I understand it’s out of warranty, and I’d accept its fate if this were genuine wear and tear, but this is an admitted manufacturing defect so it feels very raw. I was a happy user while the thing worked, but I can’t bring myself to recommend any Sur…

The worst part is they will replace the whole device, probably not with a new one.

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Post by jablala »

nfoz wrote: post #12
GEBBL wrote: post #2

Damn, why are TechCrunch hijacking the browsers back button behaviour? I had to close down my browser instance complete and then open a new one to come back to this thread. Awful.

I blame browsers for implementing such an obnoxious anti-feature.

Humans don't kill people, guns do.

Re: Microsoft Surface Go 2 review

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Post by emsy »

jl6 wrote: post #17

My Surface Pro 4 just died this weekend to the “screen scramble” issue. As I bought it more than 3 years ago, Microsoft are asking me to pay >$700 for a replacement. OK, I understand it’s out of warranty, and I’d accept its fate if this were genuine wear and tear, but this is an admitted manufacturing defect so it feels very raw. I was a happy user while the thing worked, but I can’t bring myself to recommend any Sur…

Microsoft lost any trust I had in them for building hardware. Of the 5 people I know with a Surface, only 1 doesn't have any issues. The other 4 have problems with the touch input, boot loops and loud fans on low CPU load. Software issues that go for month and years unfixed. These issues only occur slightly out of warranty (I don't assume planned obsolescence, just bad engineering).

Re: Microsoft Surface Go 2 review

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Post by Tepix »

retrofuturism wrote: post #13

Look at that faux-bokeh effect on the product photos. They're so laughably bad that I'm baffled they included them with the article.

Yeah, it's ridiculous that they didn't catch it before publishing the article. I don't mind faux bokeh if it works well (it's easy to spot around the hair if you look for it), but it's a complete mess here.

Re: Microsoft Surface Go 2 review

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Post by madjam002 »

jl6 wrote: post #17

My Surface Pro 4 just died this weekend to the “screen scramble” issue. As I bought it more than 3 years ago, Microsoft are asking me to pay >$700 for a replacement. OK, I understand it’s out of warranty, and I’d accept its fate if this were genuine wear and tear, but this is an admitted manufacturing defect so it feels very raw. I was a happy user while the thing worked, but I can’t bring myself to recommend any Sur…

If you are in the EU then you may be covered by EU consumer law if it is a manufacturing defect
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