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by scholia 14y ago
Possibly, but that claim is false. On the 64GB Surface Pro, the fraction should be 1/2, if the calculation is done in decimal (billions of) bytes. As with the MacBook Air and other systems, the 64GB or 128GB (decimal) that is advertised onl
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by scholia 14y ago
You mean, I should stand idly by while you casually malign the integrity of a good journalist? Sorry, I'm calling you out for bullshit. So far you score highly for innuendo and zero for producing any substantial facts or other concrete evid
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by scholia 14y ago
Many thanks for the piece, Chris. I enjoyed it.
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by scholia 14y ago
You need to do more product research. What's the point of claiming a "lack of innovation" if you don't actually have a clue what innovations these products offer?
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by scholia 14y ago
He actually did have a point anyhow. Did you ever wonder how the drive is laid out?
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by scholia 14y ago
You're a jerk if ever I saw one.
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by scholia 14y ago
I was parodying your argument to make it look ridiculous, which it was, and I apologise if you missed the point. However, I agree that neither of us knows a definite answer ;-) I'm not particularly optimistic about Surface sales myself, but
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by scholia 14y ago
I'm not sure that overstating your case is a sensible approach to argument. Lenovo is not the only company with good PCs, and a handful of PC companies sell more units than Apple, so clearly people do buy them. More than 300m a year of them
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by scholia 14y ago
The Surface RT is a tablet (that also happens to run Microsoft Office). The Surface Pro is a PC (that also happens to work as a tablet). I can understand consumers being confused (though I have no evidence that they are) but surely it's not
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by scholia 14y ago
So you don't think the Asus Transformer represented any sort of hardware innovation? The Asus Padphone? The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon? The TouchSmart 9300 Elite? Really?
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by scholia 14y ago
You're wrong. Ed Bott has a track record of being very accurate with the facts. You are, of course, welcome to produce some bulletproof factual examples (since you have just shown your opinions are not worth anything) to prove otherwise.
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by scholia 14y ago
Yes, good point. Maybe Surface Pro is better value than some people think? ;-)
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by scholia 14y ago
You may well be correct. However, since this is Windows, there is some chance that Lenovo, Acer, Asus, MSI, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, Fujitsu, HP, Dell or one of several hundred other companies will hit your sweet spot. It's not like you were
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by scholia 14y ago
cooldeal VAIO Duo 11 Ultrabook http://store.sony.com/c/VAIO-Duo-11-Ultrabook-Laptops/en/c/S... 3rd gen Intel® Core™ i7 processor available Windows 8 64-bit 11.6" Full HD IPS touch display (1920 x 1080) Converts from tablet to laptop Digit
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by scholia 14y ago
"Rant" means "to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave" http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rant So either you don't know what a rant is, or you don't understand English very well.
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by scholia 14y ago
Beagle A tablet is nothing like as portable as a smartphone (which also has 3G), and nothing like as fast, as powerful or as capable as a laptop (which also has a keyboard). Are there any people who are looking for something that's sort-of-
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by scholia 14y ago
The answer is Surface Pro http://www.anandtech.com/show/6695/microsoft-surface-pro-rev... QUOTE: "Even listening to Intel's description of Haswell you can get a good idea for where part of the industry is headed: everyone is working towar
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by scholia 14y ago
The thing you're missing is any semblance of fact.
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by scholia 14y ago
As I said, it's not a pig of a mobile OS, it's a full copy of Windows 8. You know, that's like Mac OS X <feline animal>. And it doesn't fit on a ROM chip.
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by scholia 14y ago
Not really. However, since you're operating on prejudice, there's no point in wasting rational arguments on you.
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by scholia 14y ago
It's not insane, it's a rational marketing decision. Users buy on the headline price, and price plus $50 would be much less attractive. People who want to move the recovery partition to their own choice of "recovery usb stick" can do so.
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by scholia 14y ago
Microsoft CANNOT prevent licensees from loading any old crap they like. The US Justice Department sued Microsoft to establish this fact, and put a judge in oversight for the next decade. The DoJ also prevented Microsoft from doing deals wit
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by scholia 14y ago
Except the MacBook Air is a much worse deal by not having a touch screen, by not having a digitizer pen, and by not including the equivalent of a free iPad. You don't in fact get as much capability even if you buy both a MacBook Air and an
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by scholia 14y ago
It's assumed you'll get the Type Cover, which has a very usable real keyboard and a real touchpad. Plus, you also have a real touch screen as well. Yes, quite expensive by Windows PC standards, but a terrific package. You should try one for
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by scholia 14y ago
Partly it's one of the pains of backwards compatibility. Unofrtunately Microsoft cannot, like Apple, just throw people who use its old stuff under a bus....
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by scholia 14y ago
It's not a pig of a mobile OS, it's a full copy of Windows 8. You know, that's like Mac OS X <feline animal>. And it doesn't fit on a ROM chip.
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by scholia 14y ago
A "no compromise" tablet that also includes a full PC. Basically, a MacBook Air and an iPad in one device.
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by scholia 14y ago
It has a 20GB restore partition....
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by scholia 14y ago
(a) Marco is an Apple fanboy so he's not supposed to have a sense of perspective. He doesn't really need to have any sense at all.... (b) Maybe Marco hasn't discovered cloud storage yet... Or the microSD card.
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by scholia 14y ago
The point about Surface Pro being that it can run both desktop apps and tablet apps, without you having to buy or carry two systems....

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