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Is it just the surface pro that has this tech built in..? Crazy that this feature has not been promoted more.
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The app shouldn't know about the DPI being used by the OS. It should be completely transparent to the app — this is not the app's responsibility.
Yes and no, it should be transparent as in the app shouldn't be broken because someone has set their DPI to be different than usual. This becomes especially important when you have an application that can run on different devices with high and low DPI. Also, the 150% DPI setting is an accessibility feature for people with bad eye sight. All apps on windows desktop should support it. If your app doesn't, and setting i…
In a well designed operating system the application should not have to explicitly handle arbitrary DPI settings for correct touch/pointer input.
An unsupported application should simply look blurry if it does not provide correct raster assets for the specified DPI. That's it.
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The app shouldn't know about the DPI being used by the OS. It should be completely transparent to the app — this is not the app's responsibility.
If app don't manifest itself as DPI aware then it's completely transparent because of so-called "DPI virtualisation". But some apps don't use system font rendering or want to draw lines precisely 1 pixel width or want to control anti-aliasing during zoom or so on, and such applications are either blured by DPI virtualisation (because 1 pixel width line is now 1.5 pixel at 150% scaling) or they manifest itself as "DPI…
One specific problem that arises on a Surface Pro is that the touch input on Civ 5 is off unless you set the DPI back to 100%. An app should not have to switch its touch/pointer handling just because the DPI changed.
It seems like the low level input handling should have been wrapped by Windows 8 to handle these cases.
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It's been a while since the tablet market was defined as 'iPad'.
I didn't say that, what I said was that Apple's vision is that there's a market for tablets and that iPad will thrive as long as there's a market for tablets. Thrive as in 90%? 70%? 40%? 320% but 50% of the profit? Who knows. But I don't define the tablet market as iPad and only iPad. And it's possible that Apple is wrong and that there isn't a tablet market. Maybe it's just that PCs suck so much, but given time and…
The conclusion I draw from everything I've heard is that the Surface Pro is a terrible iPad and an excellent PC laptop. Issues like the battery life, heat, weight, RAM free, and so on are reasonable for a Windows machine. If my perspective is correct, look for the Surface Pro to cannibalize sales from MS's "partners." I do expect it to appeal to the kind of person who buys a PC laptop and an iPad. And that's a great…
Expect this thing to gather momentum once people see early adopters playing real games on this thing. Will start having a lot of people with iPad regret.
It has changed my mind on surface pro. It will still be out of my price range and I am not going to buy it, but it has changed my mind about it.
Best tradeoff for MS with surface series ever? For one tablet, HN is changing its mind?:D
This entire post was about a tablet that runs uncomfortably warm, with buggy software, short battery life, tiny available user storage and an occasionally useful flip stand, but has a pressure sensitive stylus and it is the best. Oh yeah, and Microsoft gave him the device, so I dare say he didn't actually research his options.
Has no one heard of Jot? I'd be interested to read his comparison of the pressure sensive jot on his iPad to the Surface Pro.
Are there any digitizer users here? I use a Wacom digitizer daily for notes and sketches instead of using pen&paper. My wet dream is a pressure&tilt sensitive/e-ink based device, but it looks like the Surface Pro is the closest you can get currently - and this is a good review. If you want a portable device (laptop/ultrabook/tablet) with a good digitizer that you can actually use (that is, wacom based), your options…
Samsung Galaxy Note N8000 tablet uses wacom digitizer.
Are there any digitizer users here? I use a Wacom digitizer daily for notes and sketches instead of using pen&paper. My wet dream is a pressure&tilt sensitive/e-ink based device, but it looks like the Surface Pro is the closest you can get currently - and this is a good review. If you want a portable device (laptop/ultrabook/tablet) with a good digitizer that you can actually use (that is, wacom based), your options…
Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet 2. Dell Latitude 10
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Ever since it was first announced I thought it would be an ideal on-the-go photo management/editing program (I could easily get by in Lightroom without a keyboard, and the pen would be tons of fun) so it's cool to see that they hit that mark for that. I'm going to hold off until a cooler/longer battery life revision 2, though. Or possibly a ThinkPad Helix or something, but that's still not really a loss for MS. MS's…
Back in the day, I used the original lightroom on a Toshiba m200 (one of the original XP tablet machines). Even with the greater weight, far more limited battery life and relatively limited processing power (I think I had a 2.0GHz single core - mostly processing 4MP files off the 1DmkI so it was able to keep up decently), the Wacom digitizer in screen was amazing for touchups (it makes masking so much faster than any…
I'd be curious how well Lightroom runs on the Surface Pro, or similar.