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Macs really are some of the best Windows laptops you can buy - and now with full UEFI support Windows boots as fast as OS X.
For me, the only thing holding them back is not being able to switch between discrete and integrated graphics on Windows.
I was on a Youtube binge last night watching Windows 10 videos. It looks really impressive. Automatically switching between tablet and desktop mode when you dock appears to actually work - perhaps it is possible to make a UI that works for both use cases! The Cortana feature is slick and I'm tempted to cancel my Amazon Echo order and get a Surface (which has a free Windows 10 upgrade). I was never a fan of the OSX Do…
> "possible to make a UI that works for both use cases!" That was what Windows 8/8.1 tried to do, but apparently people didn't like at all ( never understood that, to me is a fine OS)
Macs really are some of the best Windows laptops you can buy - and now with full UEFI support Windows boots as fast as OS X.
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> "possible to make a UI that works for both use cases!" That was what Windows 8/8.1 tried to do, but apparently people didn't like at all ( never understood that, to me is a fine OS)
People didn't like it because it wasn't adaptive to the present use. The tablet and desktop views were the same regardless, which made for some poor UX. Square peg, round hole.
I think the whole thing is very subjective. I have a way better UX with Windows 8/8.1 that I had with Win7 and with OSX.
The change resistance effect should not be dismissed too, people tend to be scared when a change is dramatic.
> 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…
Macs really are some of the best Windows laptops you can buy - and now with full UEFI support Windows boots as fast as OS X.
Maybe... Still my Yoga 2 Pro feels and looks better than any Mac laptop I have own or seen. Touch screen is definetely a must-have to me. It is specially useful if you are developing for touch devices.
I'm now tempted to buy a Macbook Pro so I can install Windows 10!
Why not just an Asus Zenbook then? Really good hardware, and comes with Windows and a keyboard that has a Windows button.
> 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…
"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
I'm finding Mission Control a bit slow too. The whole Exposé thing was a lot snappier when they still called it that. That said, in Task View on Windows do the iconified windows still play live content? E.g., under mission control, a video window will continue playing video live in its preview texture. Does this happen on Windows too?