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I would just install Linux on it.
Good luck getting the touch screen to work flawlessly with your Linux install
As a developer who spends the entire time in the terminal and only touches the keyboard... so?
New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
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Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
#772That'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.
>That's what the OEMs get for not being able to put out a laptop that could compete with Apple in all those years Dell XPS line-up is quite nice, and on par with any Apple laptop.
Theoretically, yes. In practice there's been things like Dell having to issue 130W power adapters because the 95W ones weren't powerful enough. The XPS 16 runs too hot and can't use max GPU and CPU at the same time without sounding like a jet engine. The XPS 15 was nice but weighs a ton, and was also a funny shape to fit into a bag. Hinges fail regularly. Some sort of residue from the keyboard makes grid patterns on the screen if you leave it closed.
I'm now using an e7440 which is my favourite so far, but even that still has hopeless graphics (Intel HD 4400) that get the fan going crazy, and it also has the keyboard drawing patterns on the screen.
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Full SD makes complete sense. Many cameras use an SD card. Now you need a separate adapter to carry around with your laptop instead of a nice built-in SD card reader.
I'd bet an extremely high (and growing) percentage of people never connect a digital camera to their computers, and those that do probably do so rarely. So do the benefits here justify the costs?
How do people transfer photos from digital cameras then?
Many cameras don't have built in USB/networking of any kind.
Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
#774That'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.
Dell XPS 13/15 has been out for about a year.
Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
#775That'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.
When you don't have to make a profit, you can do stuff liek this.
Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
#776That'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.
Dell XPS 13/15 has been out for about a year.
How is your experience with it?
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#777In closed state, the surface book has a giant gap between screen and keyboard ( https://goo.gl/n5B7Te ). I think, it can easily happen that things in your backpack slip between screen and keyboard and damage the screen. That is why the old Thinkpads used to have a "click" mechanism.
A better image of it: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Scree...
That isn't fully closed. Look at the promo video posted elsewhere.
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> Not upgrading to any of your new closed hardware and OS's. I've missed the part whre Windows was announced open source. Can you give me a link?
> I've missed the part whre Windows was announced open source. Can you give me a link? Sure: http://blogs.msdn.com/windows/announcing-windows-10-open-sou...
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Exactly this ... outside of ThinkPad, many Windows hardware options have been pretty embarrassing.
I have tried and failed to buy X1 Carbon last month - i needed it to ship in less than a month, and their online ordering has no expedited shipping (not even an option, wtf?) and doesn't tell you when they will deliver it by (wtf??) and they don't sell X1 in any store in the area (wtf???) I truly fail to understand this - the best laptop is not sold in stores, and takes over two weeks online. The other Lenovos are, b…
It's hard to find "business class" laptops if you want one for your personal usage, and you want to buy one in person or have it shipped quickly.
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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…
You can do Ethernet over many connectors. The end points will still be RJ45, which are very ubiquitous. That issue will not be resolved any time soon.