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Surface Book – It’s Easy to Switch from Mac to Surface

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Post by csixty4 »

The page is kinda light on details.

From my experience doing web development, msys2 + PuTTY/Pagent give me pretty much everything I need. I don't even use bash; everything I need is available from cmd.exe, including tools like ls & grep.

Microsoft isn't going to say so, but you can get an Office365 gift card for like $20 on eBay. That gives you the Office apps plus a good chunk of storage on OneDrive and some Skype credit for a year.

It wasn't as painful of a transition as I expected. I guess it helps that so much of my life is in the cloud these days anyway.

Re: Surface Book – It’s Easy to Switch from Mac to Surface

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Post by mgkimsal »

jamesmp98 wrote: post #2

Unless you are a mobile developer and your clients always want iOS apps.

this was the opposite of 20 years ago - sure, you can do loads on macs, except build visual basic apps for the windows ecosystem.

shoe's on the other foot now.

if MS had done a better job in mobile, there'd be more reason to target windows for regular joe consumers, but they lost that market (for now anyway?). :(

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Post by izacus »

jamesmp98 wrote: post #2

Unless you are a mobile developer and your clients always want iOS apps.

Well, you kinda pegged your fate and future to Apple by choosing to worked into their locked ecosystem right?

It's not like it was an accidental choice, you knew that you'll have to buy whatever Apple serves you in whatever form they want as long as you want to service that platform.

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Post by dublinben »

csixty4 wrote: post #3

The page is kinda light on details. From my experience doing web development, msys2 + PuTTY/Pagent give me pretty much everything I need. I don't even use bash; everything I need is available from cmd.exe, including tools like ls & grep. Microsoft isn't going to say so, but you can get an Office365 gift card for like $20 on eBay. That gives you the Office apps plus a good chunk of storage on OneDrive and some Skype c…

>I guess it helps that so much of my life is in the cloud these days anyway

This seems like an excellent reason to not be using Windows as your underlying OS. The rampant privacy and security issues should be enough to keep any business from trusting it. The lack of a compelling reason to choose it should be the end of the story.

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Post by gnaddel »

I have become extremely weary of buying Microsoft hardware products. I was (and am) very happy with my Surface Pro 2. Recently, my power supply broke after two years of use, perfectly fine in my book, it happens. However, Microsoft has stopped selling replacement parts after less than three years. I did not find any vendor in Germany that could still deliver. I got lucky and found _one_ seller in the UK. There are some third party copies of the adapter, but due to the proprietary connector they are rare and reviews are abysmal.

Re: Surface Book – It’s Easy to Switch from Mac to Surface

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Post by wyager »

This "switch from mac" furor is hilarious to me. In 3 years people will be saying "Remember how upset people were getting about losing the escape key?". This feels the same as Apple not supporting flash or microsd cards on iPhones. Everyone made a big stink about it at the time, and a few years down the road flash is dead and no one cares about microsd cards. It will be the same with USB C and dongles; in a few years everything will be on USB C anyway.
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