Windows 8 and the Microsoft Surface

Post by r00fus » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 12:45 AM UTC

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #120

Terretta wrote: post #118

You might want to send your letter to a friend to read. Maybe that friend will send back some suggestions. On an iPad, you can’t see the email with the suggestions and your letter at the same time. Multitasking gestures on iPad and Macs let you slide back and forth between adjacent full screen apps. Your CV probably includes a picture. Maybe you went to a photographer who gave you a CD with copies of the pictures she…

> From your article, I'm guessing you're missing the excellent Logitech ultraslim keyboard case, have multitasking gestures turned off, and aren't that familiar with the productivity applications available. I agree that productivity is possible with an iPad, but perhaps it requires "being familiar" with a lot of stuff before you can be very effective with it.

Post by LocalPCGuy » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 1:08 AM UTC

veeti wrote: post #25

dangrossman wrote: post #5

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Shooting the mouse into a corner is actually one of those gestures that is hardest to get wrong, which is why we've placed the window's close button up there for decades. Your mistake is aiming for the side instead of the top right corner of the screen; you can't overshoot it, so it never takes more than one physical gesture. You can also swipe from the right edge of your touchpad as if it were the screen.

This doesn't work so well when you have two monitors.

Post by Encosia » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 1:26 AM UTC

veeti wrote: post #25

dangrossman wrote: post #5

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Shooting the mouse into a corner is actually one of those gestures that is hardest to get wrong, which is why we've placed the window's close button up there for decades. Your mistake is aiming for the side instead of the top right corner of the screen; you can't overshoot it, so it never takes more than one physical gesture. You can also swipe from the right edge of your touchpad as if it were the screen.

This doesn't work so well when you have two monitors.

Post by SirPulse » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 1:37 AM UTC

pinaceae wrote: post #50

fumar wrote: post #15

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Last summer I participated in a startup accelerator in Chicago. My Macbook died in the first week! At the time, I didn't have the funds to purchase another Apple machine. Luckily, my girlfriend had recently purchased a Surface RT with the keyboard cover. I did not think that the tablet would be able to replace a laptop for "serious" work, but it did. There are a couple of things that allowed me to do this. First, a U…

you did all of that on a Surface RT? Impressive, because Excel and Powerpoint are unusably slow on RT. Source: We've developed a business app for Win 8, development was co-sponsered by MS and Intel. We have a very succesful iPad app in our vertical, it allowed large swaths of our customer base to switch to iPads for their fieldforce. MS themselves acknowledged that if you want to handle "large Excel" files, the RT is…

Post by sliverstorm » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 2:19 AM UTC

slantyyz wrote: post #108

sliverstorm wrote: post #105

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OS matters way way less than it used to (Think of the bad old days, where Macs couldn't read Windows floppies), but it can still be a pain. For example, Google Music integrates best with Android. Microsoft OneDrive is most slick on Windows. iTunes runs like crap on anything other than OSX. You can get away with any hodgepodge mix these days if you want, but it's still more convenient to match.

>> iTunes runs like crap on anything other than OSX. I know a lot of Mac users who would beg to differ. I use Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive across all my devices, and I don't have many complaints at all. YMMV, of course. My use case is probably much simpler than yours.