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How can I edit it? To clarify the reason I mentioned RT in the title is that since decent Windows 8.1 Pro tablets can be priced so low, I believe there is no room for RT.
repeating my question: is it possible to edit it ?
Asus was previously touting a Transformer Book Trio which ran both Android and Windows 8. It appears to have vanished from existence, and I now wonder heavily if they got a visit from the Microsoft legal or marketing department (as seems to have happened with the Ativ Q)?
Asus was previously touting a Transformer Book Trio which ran both Android and Windows 8. It appears to have vanished from existence, and I now wonder heavily if they got a visit from the Microsoft legal or marketing department (as seems to have happened with the Ativ Q)?
People love to talk about Android and fragmentation, much more so than I find constructive, but putting both Android and Windows in two different universes on the same device is pure madness.
I would never buy a device like that, and I think that applies to most technically minded people I know as well.
I'm curious as to why you think Microsoft's legal or marketing team would be opposed to this sort of product though.
The netbook of 6 years ago had an ethernet port and ran Linux out of the box. Feature parity has not been achieved by later models, if this is reimagining things they're imagining with a case of Alzheimer's.
6 years later I hardly ever plug in my laptop - its wifi all the way. No ARM based tablets that I know of have an ethernet port, and I don't see anyone complaining about it.
For daily stuff, sure. When I need to shift gigs and gigs of media or VMs or whatever though: Cabled is the only way.
It's the only thing which is reliable enough to not make me tear my hair out and for stuff like this performance really matters. Especially when it's orders of magnitude faster. To some people, not having a physical ethernet port seriously is a deal-killer. Yes.
Apple has successfully shipped models without it, but Apple's biggest market-segment isn't IT professionals. It's non-technical people fed up with Windows and hipster bloggers.
The netbook of 6 years ago had an ethernet port and ran Linux out of the box. Feature parity has not been achieved by later models, if this is reimagining things they're imagining with a case of Alzheimer's.
Gee, I wonder why a notebook that's like an eight of an inch thick doesn't have an ethernet port. Well, it's probably because they are too stupid to remember 6 years ago... I mean, what else could it be?
Rather than requiring movable parts, it could be built into the keyboard with some sort of protective cover on both top and bottom (if there's enough clearance on the bottom for the end of the ethernet connector).
It's possible. It might be too costly to get acceptable reliability, but it's possible and it's been done.
Peeve:
I visit a lot of companies, and a lot of my works involves displaying a presentation or video. Modern offices' projectors almost exclusively use a VGA cable. A few more modern offices, re-fitted in the past 2-3 years, do have projectors with HDMI ports, but there's rarely a cable as the laptops they use have VGA cables, usually the laptops are ThinkPads.
Question:
Why has a VGA connector been dropped from most modern machines given a current if legacy usage?
A personal peeve, and question. Peeve: I visit a lot of companies, and a lot of my works involves displaying a presentation or video. Modern offices' projectors almost exclusively use a VGA cable. A few more modern offices, re-fitted in the past 2-3 years, do have projectors with HDMI ports, but there's rarely a cable as the laptops they use have VGA cables, usually the laptops are ThinkPads. Question: Why has a VGA…