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I really like how this site does that, while other sites flood the front page with 8 threads of the same thing.
like when steve jobs died there was only one top story? i hope this is a new standard and not special treatment for microsoft - it's super helpful to merge the topics and other important threads should be also handled this way.
Wow, this page is a mess - here's an element based breakdown of the switching elements in their presentation: MSFT: - nav 1 - nav 2 - header with what sounds like a call to action, but no button to buy? - hero image with text overlaid that has terrible contrast nobody will read - inter-page menus with some insane zooming function that scared my browser - another hero image - 3 columns - maybe buttons? no not clickabl…
Apple isn't exactly who I would point to as a good comparison. They have plenty of overdesigned pages: http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
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I don't think people understand the magnitude of this betrayal. When you buy a tool, it should obey you , and any deviations from that expectation should be disclosed upfront. Imagine if you bought a car that detected when you were driving to a particular business, locked out steering, and instead drove you to a competitor that had "partnered" with the manufacturer. You totally own the car, and no one ever told you i…
Considering we apparently don't "own" our Kindle ebook purchases, I can see a future where our hardware purchases are on indefinite loans to us rather than outright purchases.
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The new Vaios? Vaio recently announced their newest offerings and they look, to me, like they're still in that high-end business offerings bracket.
As far as I know (and searching around seems to confirm this) Sony is out of the laptop business and just produces tablets. I should've phrased myself a little better, "what laptops are Vaio owners switching to".
They just launched their Surface Pro competitor in the US: http://us.vaio.com/
(Typing this on the final version of the Sony Vaio Z, eagerly looking for a Skylake based successor...)
That's what the OEMs get for not being able to put out a laptop that could compete with Apple in all those years, they always managed to introduce some fatal flaw in their premium laptops, from weird keyboard layouts to bad fan management software. Let's hope the Surface Book will be succesful and Apple finally gets serious competition in the premium laptop market.
Weird keyboard layouts. Shifting the keyboard off-center to include numeric keypad which no one uses anymore. (Gamers? Please stop.) This alone makes one question what exactly they are "smoking". There wasn't a single big Windows laptop on the market that wouldn't fall into this hole of a flaw.
I've never used the numpad in a game in my life (except maybe some flight sim from 1998).
I had to use one of those dinky Apple keyboards without it for a while, and I dearly missed it using Blender, Excel and even just Calc. I installed a numeric keypad app on my phone to work around it.
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I use a surface and I have an ethernet to USB adapter, works pretty well.
But then you loose the USB port. But the main problem of USB adapters is that they don't like being unplugged and plugged back which happens quite frequently with a laptop. With a real port connectivity is pretty much instantaneous. I used USB adapters for a while on a MacBook pro and came to the conclusion that I will never ever buy a laptop without ethernet ports. What I wonder is why they don't come up with a mini…
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I dunno; My Acer S7 was definitely a competent MacBook Air competitor. They were out there, if you looked.
No function keys though :(
I've had the laptop since it was first introduced and I've found I've missed stand-alone function keys exactly... zero times.
Your mileage may vary I guess.
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Exactly this ... outside of ThinkPad, many Windows hardware options have been pretty embarrassing.
I'm relatively unfamiliar with ThinkPads and happened to be looking at them yesterday. Here's my problem with ThinkPads (as well as most other Windows laptop vendors): http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/?menu-id=laptops Which ThinkPad are you talking about? ThinkPad X, ThinkPad T, ThinkPad W, ThinkPad Yoga, ThinkPad E, ThinkPad L, or ThinkPad Helix, or ThinkPad 11E? Let's say we're talking about ThinkPad T.. Which…
1. how does it charge? I've looked at the promo video, I don't understand where the power plug is 2. on a completely related note, why the Type A ports? Why not put a bunch of nice Type C, maybe a single Type A for backwards compatibility?
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Can't use mouse-scroll on this page, only arrow keys.
Disable JS on Apple.com and reload the pages. They should render flawlessly and give you back responsiveness, without the animations. (I'm talking about their iPad Pro and Mac Pro product pages, not necessarily the whole site.)
