New Microsoft Surface Hardware Is Arriving Tomorrow (techcrunch.com) 73
Microsoft is teasing a new Surface device announcement for tomorrow. The company tweeted out the leading question "Where will Surface go next?" along with an image of the full lineup -- the Pro, Laptop, Book 2 and swiveling all-in-one Studio. Each computer in the image displays 6:00 on Tuesday, July 10. TechCrunch reports: The big news will probably drop tomorrow, most likely in the A.M. So, what's on deck for the Surface line? Given that all of the key players are present and accounted for here, an entirely new entry seems like a pretty reasonable guess. Rumors of a new, low-end device have been making the rounds for a few months now. Back in May, talk surfaced of a new, low-cost entry, aimed at competing more directly with the iPad. That certainly makes sense from a Portfolio standpoint. Other rumors include the loss of the proprietary Surface connector, in favor of USB-C and "rounded edges." UPDATE: Microsoft jumped the gun and announced "the newest member of the Surface Family," the Surface Go. It starts at $399 and features a 10-inch display, integrated kickstand, and Windows 10. It is available starting July 10th and will ship in August.
ohhhhhhhh (Score:4, Funny)
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I'll likely be buying two of these for my twins when they start high school next year. They're currently sharing a Surface 3 we picked up as a refurb a few years back, which has worked out pretty well. (Among other things, they use it for writing music using StaffPad so having a pen actually matters.)
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We're in 2018. What classic Mac OS software do you still need to run? And if you absolutely need to, nothing is preventing you from running it inside a VM.
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We're in 2018. What classic Mac OS software do you still need to run? And if you absolutely need to, nothing is preventing you from running it inside a VM.
Final Cut Studio suite. Apple's sound suite. As well, I much prefer a Unix environment. .
As for running a VM on Windows, there is no way I'm trading a 100 percent uptime machine to run brittle Windows ten - and put up with all of the regular failures it has?
Interesting enough, I do run Windows 7 in Bootcamp on my personal Mac. It works pretty well. Not a VM of course, but pretty much the opposite of what you suggest.
What I absolutely need - and this is the most important part - I need my machine t
apple needs to step up. (Score:4, Insightful)
apple needs to step up.
Mac os is better then windows 10 ways but the hardware sucks and it very out of date with the same old pricing.
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Its the other way around I work in a Window shop but use iphone and ipad because of the better hardware.
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He's talking about Macs, not iPhones and iPads.
Sent from my old mid-2010 Mac mini because Apple is not offering me any reasonable upgrade path.
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It's really not that clear cut as to which is better or worse. For myself I stick with the MacBook for various
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Macs don't use ARM.
But they probably will soon. Apple likes competent suppliers and Intel has proven that they aren't that. They won't go AMD; instead, they will want something in-house. The only kind of core they have in-house is ARM, so ARM it shall be. iOS already runs on ARM, and iOS and OSX are based more or less on the same code, so the only disruption will involve changing binary formats. They can emulate x86 for a while, and then drop the emulator while people are still using it just like they did with 68k on PPC in o
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apple needs to step up.
Mac os is better then windows 10 ways but the hardware sucks and it very out of date with the same old pricing.
I dunno - I don't mind the iMac Pro too much. But if that sucks - what are you running?
iMac Pro high start point / forced raid 0 locked (Score:1)
iMac Pro high start point / with forced raid 0 locked to the MB. Also need cut the screen to change ram or you can apples ram markup.
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Ummm... I can't tell if this is a real answer or not. Translate at Google fails me. Anybody?
iMac Pro high start point
The starting price is expensive
with forced raid 0 locked to the MB.
the disk drives cannot be altered for different configurations, like one to prevent data loss.
Also need cut the screen to change ram or you can apples ram markup.
Upgrades are difficult or impossible or pricy.
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Here's another anecdotal evidence: I never had any Wi-Fi related problems with my mid-2010 Mac mini. Not once in eight years.
News? (Score:2, Insightful)
Since when did an upcoming announcement become news?
Wait until they announce something.
At least when Steve Jobs was around there was some excitement about upcoming news events as something innovative might be announced, but no-one cares about minor hardware upgrades.
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Since when did an upcoming announcement become news?
Wait until they announce something.
At least when Steve Jobs was around there was some excitement about upcoming news events as something innovative might be announced, but no-one cares about minor hardware upgrades.
Yeah, those were the days, when Steve Jobs introduced new Windows products......
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Don't be obtuse. AC's point was easy to grok.
Don't confuse homor with obtuse. Here's your Whoosh!
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Then you shouldn't confuse obtuse with humor either.
Obtuse can be humor, Coward
Re: wtfc (Score:2)
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And then they literally blocked the Rosetta software from running in newer OS versions, even ones that could probably still run it - making all legacy OS X software impossible to run.
Surface underwear and it interface porn sites... (Score:1)
yep, a new model just for porn sites. I has lots of VR and USB virtual interfaces. New markets and new roads...
...yawn... (Score:2, Insightful)
If it's microsoft, don't buy it. End of story.
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If it's microsoft, don't buy it. End of story.
Says someone who doesn't do any real work or play video games. For the rest of us Windows does just fine...
the trolls are getting worse... in the not-so-distant past when a product was derided there was usually a cogent technical argument. Now it seems they get away with hating on stuff just because of pure bias...
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Where do I want to go today?
HELL!
It's great to have an OS that vomits locations of installed programs all over a binary configuration database, and can't change them.
Also one that has two settings programs with no real definition between them.
Also one that can't even copy itself, let you back up easily, support longer filenames, or decent permissioning.
Also one that ships with no useful CLI or development tools, doesn't work with the rest of the world.
And to top it all, coming from a company with a long track record of predatory behavior, god-awful design, and zero customer service.
Sign me up!
You can change locations of programs in Windows. Granted, for non-advanced users, you need to re-install the app and select the new folder/drive during the install. However for advanced users, Windows does have junction points (the ability to mount drives and folders to other folders) so you could move a program anywhere and just create a junction point. I've used Junction Link Magic, a free third party app, to do this in the past. But it is also built into Windows. mklink is the Windows CLI tool for t
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I actually appreciate you responding so here goes.
You can't really change install location "manually" since you are guessing - you cannot account for e.g. a program that uses multiple composition from registry keys. Add in multiple SKUs and this becomes difficult. Junctions exist, and I've used them for years, but it's a stretch to say they are supported in the same way as UNIX symlinks.
Long filenames work to a point, and you can switch better behavior via a key. However by default, you cannot e.g. clone so
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Out of the box windows includes the PowerShell and DOS CLI. For development, there are C and C++ compilers in the free Win10 SDK. There is also the free edition of Visual Studio too, but that's a step beyond what I'd consider the OS.
A reasonable response would be "but those things didn't used to be free." They weren't free on Macs for a long time either.
Microsoft is changing. To ignore that and assume
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If it's microsoft, don't buy it. End of story.
Says someone who doesn't do any real work or play video games. For the rest of us Windows does just fine...
the trolls are getting worse... in the not-so-distant past when a product was derided there was usually a cogent technical argument. Now it seems they get away with hating on stuff just because of pure bias...
FYI: I didn't mean to say that people don't get work done on other platforms, just that the majority of business is still carried out on Windows desktops, laptops, and tablets. I do see the underlying OS becoming much less important over the next 10 years as business apps become cloud-based.
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I do tons of real work, mostly engineering. And I don't use Windows. Ever.
Real Windows 10? (Score:2)
Or the craptastic jail cell of the tablet-only, Windows Store-only crap?
"Comfort-of-a-laptop" lie (Score:2)
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The old is new again (Score:2)
So we're back to 10" netbooks. That worked out so well last time.