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Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by nileshtrivedi »

yellowbeard wrote: post #601
superuser2 wrote: post #473

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ThinkPad is pretty embarrassing; you're supporting a company that decided to MITM all its users traffic to inject advertising using factory-installed malware by trusting the same certificate, whose private key can be extracted from any Lenovo product and trivially used to MITM all the others. Lenovo needs to fail hard and fast. I recognize we'll probably never get those responsible into prison, but at least we can ma…

> all its users traffic It was only a subset of their customers, and none of the ThinkPad models. https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish

I think even Thinkpads were prone to Lenovo's malware (if not Superfish)

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by babuskov »

scholia wrote: post #815
babuskov wrote: post #709

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Yes. And Surface has 5200. It's even worse.

Microsoft compared the Surface Pro 4 with the MacBook Air and the Surface Book with the 13in MacBook Pro. It didn't compare either with, say, a Dell Precision mobile workstation that delivers serious power...

Thanks for clearing that up. I got confused by names and expected "Pro" to mean the same in both camps.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by unabst »

scholia wrote: post #934
unabst wrote: post #851

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Please stop putting words in my mouth or those of Mac fans. I stated a simple fact, but got downvoted, so I gave up. Glad you admitted there was a lack of innovation somewhere though. > Mac fans would be wetting themselves so hard that a lot of people would drown @IkmoIkmo How is that for bias?

> How is that for bias? I stated a simple fact. Well, I assume that's how you would describe it ;-)

I can state for a fact that the statement was not a fact, and that it was biased regardless of anything I could have said.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by sonnyp »

eosrei wrote: post #958
jhasse wrote: post #726

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Another Vaio Pro 13 user here :) Have you tried the internal Wifi with a newer Linux distribution? I'm using Ubuntu 15.04 and it works great :) No disconnects, speed good be better though ... Regarding a replacement: What do you think about the Librem 13? It's one of my favorites along with the Dell XPS 13 and the Lenovo X1 Carbon.

I'm running Mint 17.2 which switched to following Ubuntu LTS releases only. So, I haven't tried a newer Ubuntu, but the wifi is terrible in Win8 too. The "Panda Ultra 150Mbps Wireless N USB Adapter" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00762YNMG was my solution for a massive range/reliability increase. Related: This screen protector makes the glossy display usable outside: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HDTVJKQ I'm…

The Librem 15 has i7 and backlit keyboard.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-15

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by WorldWideWayne »

partiallypro wrote: post #870
WorldWideWayne wrote: post #214

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I'm running Windows 10 with multiple Linux server distros in the background. Hyper-V shuts them down and brings them up with Windows. WinSCP is my file manager and Putty is my terminal. I prefer this over OS X on Apple hardware because I can get the exact Unix experience that I want without having to fight with Apple about who is in control of the machine. Perhaps more importantly, I get the desktop experience that I…

I really enjoy Bitvise over PuTTy. If you haven't checked it out, give it a gander. BUT, in the upcoming Windows 10 update SSH support is coming to Windows' shell. So technically you won't need either. It will be more like Terminal on Mac. I still will be using Bitvise, just because of how it manages key files, etc.

Thanks! I have tried Bitvise a few times over the years, but it seems to be missing some features of WinSCP such as "Keep remote directory up to date..." which I use a lot. The terminal immediately seems nicer to use than Putty, but I have to find some way of using Bitvise terminal with WinSCP, or I need to find that one feature of WinSCP in Bitvise' file explorer.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by tarblog »

ekianjo wrote: post #903
aianus wrote: post #796

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Most people don't own digital cameras any more, they just use their smartphones (which have USB/networking).

LOL, your comment is quite funny. This may be true for "most hipsters that don't care about photography", but in reality there are still many folks using regular mirrorless camera or even better, full frame DSLR because their price has dropped so much in the past 3 years. And these folks also happen to be the ones looking for premium laptop options in order to get data transferred fast (wifi is too slow for RAWs) and…

Wifi is not too slow for RAWs. I backed-up my entire library to the cloud over wifi. I would bet most people don't need to transfer their files on a fast enough timescale that wifi is too slow for them.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by tmd83 »

baddox wrote: post #822
tmd83 wrote: post #462

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This! At least from the initial look and spec it looks like they did a lot of the things right and put effort in making this nice. Yes there are things that maybe I can get by without but the basics looks fantastic. You don't chip $50 off a premium laptop and make it crappy. OEM just keeps making too many model at every price point .. at every 20 dollars it feels like. While I hate the almost singular choice for OsX…

> While I hate the almost singular choice for OsX I actually find that this is less true now, and I miss when it was more true. There are a lot of choices now, not just at price points, but at form factors. Do I get a 13" MacBook Air, a 13" MacBook Pro Retina, a 12" MacBook, or the upcoming 12.9" iPad Pro?

What I meant is a single vendor. There are other laptops out there good or bad and if I wanted one for price or design I can't. For example I would probably love to run OSX on something like a surface book if that was possible, or linux for that matter.

I hate the lack of ports in the Macbook 12 but thats the only 12" OSX machine you can get.

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by lhl »

natmaster wrote: post #841
MatthiasP wrote: post #276

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.

Dell XPS laptops are amazing. What flaw did you find that noone else did? I would even go as far as to say the hardware is better (obviously many here will disagree about software side). I mean, they are carbon-fiber, lighter, smaller, with better build quality.

If he's running Linux, it might be that it tooks 5 months after the release of the Developer Edition (the one w/ Ubuntu preinstalled) to fix the most basic/egregious issues: http://bartongeorge.net/2015/08/28/recent-fixes-for-xps-13-d...

Also, that even now, they still ship w/ Broadcom, not Intel wifi. (drivers not in the kernel)

I'm curious about the new Skylake XPS models, but you'd have to either be foolish or a masochist to guinea pig their new models...

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by scholia »

unabst wrote: post #973
scholia wrote: post #934

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> How is that for bias? I stated a simple fact. Well, I assume that's how you would describe it ;-)

I can state for a fact that the statement was not a fact, and that it was biased regardless of anything I could have said.

In comments https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

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Post by aianus »

ekianjo wrote: post #903
aianus wrote: post #796

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Most people don't own digital cameras any more, they just use their smartphones (which have USB/networking).

LOL, your comment is quite funny. This may be true for "most hipsters that don't care about photography", but in reality there are still many folks using regular mirrorless camera or even better, full frame DSLR because their price has dropped so much in the past 3 years. And these folks also happen to be the ones looking for premium laptop options in order to get data transferred fast (wifi is too slow for RAWs) and…

Actually, I have a dSLR myself. But I'm a tech nerd and extremely aware that most people are nothing like me. Most people just take selfies on their smartphone cameras, run them through an ig filter, and call it a day.
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