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The headphone jack position is a deal-breaker. Rookie mistake.
there has to be another headphone jack on the attached keyboard. if not, then it will be a terrible experience to listen to music while working as the headphone cable will be interfering with the keyboard.
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The point is mostly to make sure people are feeling as part of the community by the time they get downvote privilege, and downvote based on what contributes and what doesn’t.
Ah. My question is regarding this: > And why the people who can get to decide who can’t. How does someone with downvote privileges get to decide who can't downvote? Simply because a downvote removes a unit of karma from the downvotee's score?
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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.
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13-inch MacBook Pro has Intel Iris 6100 Graphics, no?
Yes. And Surface has 5200. It's even worse.
It didn't compare either with, say, a Dell Precision mobile workstation that delivers serious power...
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The Surface Pro 3 you could. Just had to disable Secure Boot for setup, boot from a USB stick, and after installation you could re-enable it (assuming you had a Linux distribution that supports Secure Boot signing). Obviously nobody outside of Microsoft will know if that remains true with the Surface Pro 4.
Secure Boot is always disable-able on x86. This has been true since Surface Pro 1.
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This is what I was hopeful for when VAIO was spun off of SONY last year. When I saw the "machined magnesium body" line in their video [1] I was immediately reminded of the VAIO laptops that had beautiful material way back in the 90's. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVfOe5mFbAE&feature=youtu.be
I still miss the z series... But the z series had ethernet ports. This surface thing is useless to me.
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> by doing as Apple does, only later and weaker Seems to me that touch, pens, detachable screens and a full desktop operating system is Microsoft doing things ahead of Apple, and stronger. Putting the same base OS on laptops, tablets, convertibles, smartphones and games consoles is, arguably, ahead of Apple. Putting smartphone apps on Windows, Android and iOS is ahead of Apple. Running a world-class global cloud serv…
Windows 8 was not stronger. Microsoft Tablet PC was a modest attempt in 2002, but again, not stronger. The issue with the Surface Book is how closely they intentionally align themselves with their biggest competitor. They are begging for a comparison. And I could have easily mistaken the page for a 2002 Tablet PC overview. Only the pictures are different. "Redefining the laptop" is hardly inspiring copy. Which demo?…
So when Apple is obviously working on a self-driving car, you'd say that Apple is aligning themselves intentionally with their biggest competitor and 'begging for a comparison' to Google? Or not? Or when they finally allow adblockers, finally allow split screen, finally have a low-battery mode, finally add (private) NFC, jumped on the smartwatch bandwagon, jumped on the bigger-phone bandwagon, they're also begging for comparisons and aligning themselves with the competition? When Apple copied the Surface Pro's, and finally shipped a pencil after Jobs bashed them for years, they're also begging for a comparison?
Innovation doesn't always have to be some grand scheme that is completely unprecedented and radically different from everything else. Microsoft is engineering real innovations that are valuable and share some similarities with competitors, just like Google or Apple do, alongside of which it has some big ideas that nobody is really pursuing like the Hololens. I think you're giving them too little credit here.
[0] http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2015/09/ipad_pro...
What Microsoft has done today is prove they're very focused about providing a top of the line personal computing experience. You can argue about server, but when it comes to applications (which are floating windows), Microsoft Windows has proven they can keep that title for their operating system. I'm glad to see them take ownership over the hardware. That has always been the black mark. I build my own PCs and always…
Microsoft's server software is actually top-notch and has been for years. Server 2003 was rough, but after that MS really started improving the management tools and allowing a lot more command line via powershell, etc. And in corporate America, Microsoft's Server products are near-ubiquitous. Consider that most of the in-house workflow tools at any company are built in Sharepoint -- and Sharepoint is actually a great…
Exchange/Outlook/Lync are amazing, sure. (Lync destroys other PBX software.) But Windows as a platform, outside of managing a large company's internal IT is really not so fantastic.
Could be a MBP replacement for developers. The only thing is those of us running on OS X, how is Windows 10? I love my command line and linux like commands and tools. - Homebrew - Bash scripts - Docker (Windows 10 currently not supported) - Vagrant I just feel the tooling for MS isn't in the direction I am. I still have a Windows 7 desktop and it's just not the same.
It's all there, just different. PowerShell = bash, Chocolatey = homebrew, Windows Server Containers = docker, Hyper-V+powershell = vagrant, DSC = ansible etc etc. I don't use Windows 10 for reference though. Still on 8.1 until they fix a few things and release a version-matched server platform.
