Microsoft Surface Studio

Post by ChuckMcM » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 5:18 PM UTC

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That NEC display is nearly 4 feet long. I am thinking the same width as a full size keyboard so on the order of 15 - 18". 1920 x 480 would be ok for a display that was 18" wide and 4" tall. Although I'd prefer it be 3450 x 768 (192 dpi)

Not sure if you'll make it back to this thread, but I found the other (much more interesting) manufacturer of bar-type displays: LiteMax and their spanpixel line of panels: http://www.litemax.com/en/product/category/Spanpixel/22 I see smaller (15 and 19 inch) displays as well as the "smart shelf" displays. Here is a 3840x536 display @ 43.5", which is the one I am interested in: http://www.litemax.com/en/product/Spanp…

Post by 8_hours_ago » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 5:58 PM UTC

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"The screen. Clearly that is the thing which makes this announcement. For me, the 3:2 aspect ratio is so more reasonable for computers than 16:9. And having a zillion pixels is wonderful although my CAD package (TurboCAD) still doesn't deal well with the high DPI screen off the Surface Book, I'm sure it would look silly on this machine." It may interest you to know that there is a reasonably priced 1:1 aspect ratio m…

That is pretty cool. Oddly enough something I've been thinking about would be a high dpi "ribbon" screen, something that is perhaps 14 - 16" wide by 3 - 4" tall. To sit just behind my nice mechanical keyboard. That screen would have application specific tool bars with large icons and easy to tweak controls (sliders, buttons, etc). That would allow me to give over my "big" display to the project workspace, whether it…

Post by int_19h » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 6:30 PM UTC

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but you should be able to loopback-mount a "proper" file system (e.g. ext4) from a file on NTFS, and then you'll have no limits other than what ext4 imposes. Of course, you then lose easy interop with the filesystem from Windows side, but that is the inherent trade-off here.

WSL doesn't actually run a Linux kernel; it emulates the syscalls and process environment Linux offers and provides a binary loader. It's WINE in reverse. So there's no ext4 driver, and no concept of loopback mounts.

Post by thisisdallas » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 9:06 PM UTC

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Then sell the screen itself. Why chain it to mediocre, non-upgradeable hardware?

If they were to, would you buy it?

Post by singularity2001 » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 9:49 PM UTC

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MS is definitely taking the steps in the hardware department that Apple has been lagging behind on. But I still feel Windows itself is not a productive OS. I'm big on keyboard shortcuts but MS is very much mouse based. Being required to use my pinky to try and hit CTRL instead of my thumb to hit COMMAND to do simple things like copy and paste is HUGE to me. I didn't use a Windows machine for 3 years and when I did ne…

I am using company provide rMBP for 2 years and I like to linux like terminal/bash, but otherwise I can't find any reason it is so revered. Multi monitor support sucks so bad, I have to wiggle mouse few seconds at bottom of monitor before it is taken as active, but boy popup of active window still opens on 2nd monitor. I minimize Firefox it goes down in Dock, now when I press Cmd+Tab, Firefox is in the applications l…