Any word on the batter life, what with it being thinner and lighter the previous models?
Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 3
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#142Did I miss that or they said nothing about the battery duration? For me that's a very important information. For the rest is a really great piece of hw edit: Yep I missed: "Over ~20% more battery life than any product Surface has shipped before" and: " battery life is up to 9 hours on the Surface Pro 3."
...and how hot it gets!
"The first surface that can't boil your eggs" would be a slogan that make me buy one.
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#143Warning, rant. Why the duck isn't there information on the Surface Pro 3 on the MS website? Apple has done this so well, for so long, I am pissed-off MS can't get its act together. You make an announcement, you need presence on the web. You need to start your customers expectations building, whet their appetite, and tease them. Their experience starts now and right now that experience is reading news articles and rea…
I'm not sure why you were getting downvoted because the one thing that stuck out to me, after saying to myself "Huh, I'd love to get one of those to play around with." was that in the marketing page [1] it said "Go to microsoftstore.com/whatever" to preorder one yet when I poked around that site there was no reference whatsoever to the Surface Pro 3.
It just seems odd to go to so much trouble for the unveiling and then say, "but you can't check out the specs/look at accessories/drool over it" until 12:01am.
[1] http://blog.surface.com/2014/05/announcing-surface-pro-3/
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#144Small things continue to kill the surface pro acceptance: - The Surface site on the surface site hasn't updated with surface pro 3 info/pricing. The run way for this is long, why isn't the site updated or ready to go? - Accessories are notoriously out of stock. Why are they hard to get? Docking station, keyboards, mice. Fix that. - The dock has 10/100 Ethernet. In 2013-2014? Why? - Updates for firmware and drivers as…
It has been a pain in the ass to get PXE booting working on the Surface Pro 1 and well as Lenovo's Yoga and Yoga 2. Some of their USB-Ethernet adapters don't support PXE at all.
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#1453:2 screen ratio is a killer feature. The size (800g, 9.1 mm) is quite unbelievable as well.
It will be interesting to see how that aspect ratio feels. I definitely like the 4:3 ratio on the iPad, and hate the fact that Android devices are all 16:9 or 16:10, which is a terrible tablet ratio for anything other than watching widescreen video content. I would also prefer a laptop with a taller display. 3:2 might be a really good sweet spot.
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#146That's a really nice piece of hardware. I've used MacBook Airs since 2010, but the Surface 3 looks to be strictly dominating in the hardware department. Unfortunately, I don't think Microsoft will convert many OS X devs unless they make some changes to their software. One of the advantages of OS X is that it's a Unix, and lots of Unix software runs on it. It's not hard to compile tools such as nmap, Vim, or steam loc…
OSX is less unix than it can get. No X. Crazy apple-only-standards... Heck you can't even use vim! i will eat my hat if you open vim in OSX and be able to copy/paste. The + register just goes to nowhere. OS X is broken unix. windows sucks in many regards, but it always had million more devs than OSX... i know implementing fixes on top of windows goes against the free software philosophy, but there are already too man…
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#147No wonder it's cheaper - N-trig instead of Wacom. (I'm not commenting on the technical merits of either choice, just that one tends to be cheaper than the other.)
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#148For reference:
Surface Pro 3: 12" @ 2160x1440 => 216 PPI
MacBook Air 11": 11.6" @ 1366x768 => 135 PPI
MacBook Air 13": 13.3" @ 1440x900 => 128 PPI
MacBook Pro 13" (Retina): 13.3" @ 2560x1600 => 227 PPI
(Rumor) MacBook Air 12" (Retina): 12" @ 2304x1440 => 226 PPI
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
The ISE is clever, but honestly, nothing beats a PuTTY-like terminal.
I actually find PuTTY to be horribly frustrating to work with, compared to a proper terminal emulator on OS X or Linux. Part of that is just Windows (when the window closes it's gone), part of it is that it's really just an SSH command (no local terminal, no easy SCP), part of it is the cumbersome UX (make a bunch of changes to the connection and then hit 'go'; oh wait, you didn't save the changes first? crap). I do…
In 2014, PuTTY still makes you set your whole window to a complete Unicode font (usually buggy and weird-looking) to avoid international text showing entirely blank. Surely even Windows has better text API than that?
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#150Warning, rant. Why the duck isn't there information on the Surface Pro 3 on the MS website? Apple has done this so well, for so long, I am pissed-off MS can't get its act together. You make an announcement, you need presence on the web. You need to start your customers expectations building, whet their appetite, and tease them. Their experience starts now and right now that experience is reading news articles and rea…
Maybe because they're still selling Surface2's? But some cohesive story like Surface2 is now $X00 cheaper, or pre-order Surface3 today would be the level of messaging needed to match Apple.