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Touch screen on a laptop. Yuck.
What's the problem with additional functionality on a laptop screen?
Nothing. I retroffited a soda fountain on mine.
Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10
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Re: Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10
#72> Here's the real kicker: it's fast. It's smooth. It renders at 60FPS unless you have a lot going on. It's unequivocally better than performance on OS X, further leading me to believe that Apple really needs to overhaul how animations are done. Even when I turn Transparency off in OS X, Mission Control isn't completely smooth. Here, even after some Aero Glass transparency has been added in, everything is smooth. It's…
And guess what... We're using the same tools available to third party app developers, in an effort to ensure the dev platform is rock solid. The Start menu is just a universal XAML app. We don't have to do any special optimization on top of what the framework offers.
Disclaimer: Microsoft employee working on the Windows 10 Start menu.
Re: Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10
#73>Little design touches have really improved the way things look, such as the switch to circular account pictures on the login screen This is the thing I and many other Windows users hate with passion, see rants like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/35zsgk/excuse... https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/forums/101801-feature-sug... https://windows.uservoice.com/forums/265757-windows-feature-... https:…
Yes, new + different = bad.
Re: Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10
#74I find it funny that Windows 10 runs well on a MacBook yet it's terrible on my gaming desktop. Color profiles refuse to work, there's no way to prevent auto updates, auto updates completely reinstall the whole OS which can take 30+ min and reboots the computer without asking, video drivers break on every update, games are far less stable than with 8.1. To top all that off it seems to be stuck in some kind of update l…
It's almost as if it's a technical preview that's not ready for release yet.
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#75"Until thorough benchmarking is completed by me or someone else, I think the best way to put it is this: Task View often runs at 60FPS, while Mission Control never runs at 60FPS" So, it seems that in this case a beta version of Windows works best than MacOS
Based on how buggy Yosemite is this should really be rephrased as a beta version of Windows runs better than a beta version of MacOS.
How buggy was it, really? I've heard several painful stories, but nothing concrete, except some changes Apple made to the DNS infrastructure.
The same kind of stories I've heard for every release since 10.4, about how the new one is so buggy, etc. Then, the next release comes and people wax nostalgically about how stable the previous one was.
Re: Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10
#76While we're talking about windows, any advice on how to make it developer friendly outside of .net? (Say for people whose main tools are bash, vi and a compiler)
Re: Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10
#77Macs really are some of the best Windows laptops you can buy - and now with full UEFI support Windows boots as fast as OS X.
Completely disagree -- the Apple trackpad drivers on windows are awful, and on a laptop, most of your time will probably be spent using a trackpad. Trackpad++, which the author of the article mentions, can help, but it's a horrible program for the following reasons: 1. The developer requires that you put windows into "test mode" (creating a non-removable desktop watermark) to install it at all, apparently to get arou…
>the Apple trackpad drivers on windows are awful
Which, going by Linux logic, is entirely Apple's fault.
Re: Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10
#78Macs really are some of the best Windows laptops you can buy - and now with full UEFI support Windows boots as fast as OS X.
does Windows 10 still support old legacy BIOS?
Re: Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10
#79> Here's the real kicker: it's fast. It's smooth. It renders at 60FPS unless you have a lot going on. It's unequivocally better than performance on OS X, further leading me to believe that Apple really needs to overhaul how animations are done. Even when I turn Transparency off in OS X, Mission Control isn't completely smooth. Here, even after some Aero Glass transparency has been added in, everything is smooth. It's…
And guess what... We're using the same tools available to third party app developers, in an effort to ensure the dev platform is rock solid. The Start menu is just a universal XAML app. We don't have to do any special optimization on top of what the framework offers. Disclaimer: Microsoft employee working on the Windows 10 Start menu.
You guys have knocked it out of the park with the start menu. It's wonderful. Besides occasionally having to kill explorer because it becomes non-responsive it's been an absolute pleasure to use. I really like that you guys have downgraded the size a bit since earlier builds; really sleek and useful now.
Re: Testing the 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10
#80While we're talking about windows, any advice on how to make it developer friendly outside of .net? (Say for people whose main tools are bash, vi and a compiler)
Step one: Install Cmdr http://gooseberrycreative.com/cmder/
Step two: If on !Win10, use the chocolatey nu-get package manager (https://chocolatey.org/), but if on Win10, I _think_ the native package manager will be a drop-in, tho I'm not sure.
That is literally _all_ you have to do to get 90% of what I do on a linux terminal into a windows console.