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Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
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Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
#12I've had about 4 generations of surface devices. Never again. The frustration of that SP4 where every bodies screen would jitter and they would just stoiclly send me a replacement with the same problem. Until warranty expired.
Or every model after that just slowed down to a crawl after a year. Or the keyboard connection not working reliably.
No thank you very much.
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
#13Surface has seen so many iterations, some terrible, some nice. Still rocking the discontinued surface laptop studio as Wacom on the go, smallish footprint (14”) creative development machine. I just love its quirkiness and the fact that I can jump on photoshop to touch up an image, use it as tablet for movies, or vs code for (not great nowadays) 6h on battery. It is an odd intersection.
And I have one that I use as thin client for my desktop, Linux made it usable! 10 year old surface pro 3, 8 to 9hr battery life, takes less than 20s to boot up to Gnome, no issues browsing on Firefox, it's a solid device on the go. And to my total surprise, it retained charge even after almost a month of no usage.
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
#14What's conspicuously absent, is the CPU that's going to power this thing. Yes, it's got an Nvidia GPU, but does it have an Intel CPU, an AMD CPU, an Nvidia ARM CPU, or someone else's ARM CPU?
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
#15"The world is full of makers. Only a few make the world." What does this mean ? How can you make the world ?
Be a creator instead of a consumer.
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
#16"The world is full of makers. Only a few make the world." What does this mean ? How can you make the world ?
It means nothing. The LLM thought it was edgy.
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
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#19These machines are total garbage in my experience.
> And with all-day battery life[ii]
If they managed to get anywhere near Apple, they'd have confidently published some kind of actual hour figure without a scare citation.
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
#20„Built on Windows”. That’s like anti-ad these days. Maybe, maybe worth looking at if you can run other OS than Windows on it, but that will probably take some time.
Ya, i dont know of anyone wanting to run very large AI models in a windows environment. Or, frankly, on a laptop. Why not just VPN into a dedicated server?