And yet it does everything well enough.
This is exactly how MS does and should compete with Apple, and why this is the platform that will dominate over time.
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And yet it does everything well enough.
This is exactly how MS does and should compete with Apple, and why this is the platform that will dominate over time.
Try sending your professor a document written in Apple Pages. Get back to me.For academic area, Macs are superior simply because it uses industry grade UNIX for which thousands of science and other programs are available. There is not need for Windows with its viruses
Strangely enough, if you remove the word 'Metro' from that phrase, it remains equally true. Well designed apps are both awesome looking and easy to navigate through. Though the 'easy to navigate through' is more consistently noted, since the 'awesome looking' part is much more subjective. (Personally, I think the 'Metro' style is blocky, and wastes a lot of space that could be put to better use.)
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Why on earth would you need a mouse pad when using an iOS device? The UI is fully touch-centric.
You need the mouse pad on the Surface because they include the non-touch 'desktop' mode which is a pain to use without a mouse.
Export to PDF?
Besides, if it's for your professor, you should be using LaTeX.
Heck, you can export to Word format as well. I certainly never had trouble turning in any of my assignments, even though I was using Pages.
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I'd tend to agree. I was just pointing out that many of the iPad keyboard designs maintain greater usability than the Surface ones.
(That reminds me, I've got an old bluetooth keyboard floating around somewhere. I should see if I can't dig it out and pair it up with my iPad some time.)
And more precise.
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No, they'd more likely buy the company.
After all, why rent, when you can own?
Nvidia is vested in ARM through Tegra. They're not a third party passively observing the landscape
How exactly are they going to mobilize OS X? Apple's entire strategy is predicated on keeping their tablet and desktop environments separate and everything from the chipset to each OS's distinguishing features reinforces this. They can't mobilize the OS X ecosystem without blowing up the iOS ecosystem
http://store.apple.com/us/product/FD223LL/A/refurbished-macbook-air-17ghz-dual-core-intel-core-i5
http://store.apple.com/us/product/FD224LL/A/refurbished-macbook-air-17ghz-dual-core-intel-core-i5
http://store.apple.com/us/product/FD231LL/A/refurbished-macbook-air-18ghz-dual-core-intel-core-i5
And if you don't about Apple refrub products they are as good as new ones and come with the same warantee as new ones. Of course when they are gone they are gone.
Also, how about:
http://www.macconnection.com/IPA/Sh...MC968LL/A-_-CI&ci_src=5784816&ci_sku=13055588
You seem to have missed the fact that Microsoft are starting from WAY behind in the market and are needing to provide some reason for people to use their device.
"pro" on a tablet says to me that it is to be used by business when away from the office. i.e., on the move, out of range of wifi networks.
You would NEVER buy an iPad for BUSINESS without a mobile data connection either.
I'm saying that as a tablet, no mobile data for BUSINESS is useless.
Sure, i can plug a dongle into it.
WHY should i need to do this when in the market that device is aimed at, it should at least be an option internally, if not STANDARD. A USB dongle will take up a (scarce) usb port and is another thing to lose. It's something to break off when the device is dropped. It's something that on a tablet, should be internal.
What the macbook pro has or doesn't have is entirely irrelevant, it isn't trying to position itself as a highly mobile device for usage while on the move and away from a desk.
If the macbook pro had a removable keyboard and was designed for handheld use, no mobile data connection internally as an option would be a massive oversight also.
For the people crying about free space on the Surface, you can stop now - the numbers were wrong and the free space is the same as a MBP:
http://www.zdnet.com/surface-pro-ve...eing-dishonest-with-storage-space-7000011009/
http://www.zdnet.com/surface-pro-ve...eing-dishonest-with-storage-space-7000011009/
Apple Pages:
export as pdf, word or txt.
Done/
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Nvidia has a massive business making GPUs and integrated chipsets for Intel platform as well, both on Windows and OS X.
They're however betting their future on ARM, ie mobile.
One tends to think that Haswell will be as competitive as ARM chip.
But in terms of cost: OEMs call Intel’s Haswell pricing, “Absurd”
http://semiaccurate.com/2012/10/03/oems-call-intels-haswell-pricing-absurd/#.URSu7KVsvHg
Intel thinks Haswell is going to change Ultrabooks, but there is one big problem, price.
With Haswell, the ULV part with the Crystallwell memory costs more to make, but not a huge amount more. Think $5 or less for the DRAM, and maybe double that tally for construction losses. For this, Intel is trying to charge OEMs $50-60 on a CPU that already breaks the bank at $225 or so. Several OEMs contacted SemiAccurate recently to complain about Intel’s pricing, one calling it, “Absurd”, and that was the nice one.
Why do they think they can charge this much money? Marketing. Intel is going to make yet another moronic brand for the ULV/Ultrabook versions of Haswell, and make you pay for it. And pay. And pay. The concept worked well when Intel had a desirable product, but now, well, no one wants Ultrabooks, they are not an iPad or MacBook Air.
Ultrabooks are coming in at 1/4 of Intel’s sales projections for 2012, the economy is in shambles, and they are trying to sell fashion against Apple. What could go wrong with a vastly more expensive product in light of this? Intel is quick to counter bad news with specious numbers, but today the first touchscreen Ultrabook that SemiAccurate has seen announced, the Acer Aspire S7 took the price up to $1399. That is not a reduction in price as Intel has been promising.
ARM chips tend to cost just 20 dollars compared to hundreds of dollars for Intel chips. An only advantage of Intel that it can run Windows molasses.
Guess which is more competitive?
But people don't care when Apple lies to them. They only get upset if other companies lie. Microsoft being deceiving about the storage capacity of the Surface is terrible and they should be banished from the universe. Apple does the same thing, but it's ok because everyone does it. Or at least that's the logic of a lot of people here.
Tablets will be tablets, ultra books will die off like eNotebooks, and laptops and desktops will remain.
Tablets are good for internet, email, reading stuff -- just about EVERYTHING a home user does. Coupled with a bluetooth keyboard and something that streams video wirelessly -- who needs an ultra book?? Tablets will take away the space from people who used to use notebooks and ultra books for media and wordprocessing.
Notebooks will still be used for creative people who are ALWAYS on-the-go and need to retain desktop-like power.
Desktops are slowly dying in the consumer space. They are not portable -- which makes them excellent workstations for computer labs in schools and other work-related areas.
Actually compared to a Wacom 12 Cintiq, the surface pro offers a higher resolution all in one tablet with 1024 pressure sensitivity, and free from the wires that the Cintiq 12 is saddled with. Additionally its a full computer.
Cintiq 12 is around $899 too. So for some of us, the surface pro is not that bad a proposition.
For the likes of Corel Painter 12 on the go, it seems ideal and its a lot cheaper than the Mod Book Pro at $2500
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What's wrong with the prt location?
For us artsy Lefties its perfect
From ArsTechnica review
That molasses also has a software base that's currently irreplaceable
If the Surface Pro disrupts the tablet market, it'll basically mean cost and energy efficiency are slightly overrated (at least when it comes to tablets) and that power and software matter too.
I think there are people out there who want a tablet to be a small computer instead of a big smartphone. That's where the x86 Core line and x86 software come in and the ARM and $5 apps go away.
Was going to post this. Further - Apple doesn't report disk usage in the same way Microsoft does as indicated by the article linked earlier on this page.
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No. So you can be sincerely productive in those 4 hours by using full programs and applications instead of apps that have limited functionality.
also about that "crap" 4 hour battery life
Using stats from Anandtech
MacBook Air 11" (Core i5-3317U from the mid 2012 MBA 11" review)
Light: 5.5 hours
Medium: 3.95 hours
Surface Pro (w/ same Core i5-3317U)
Light: 5.2 hours
Medium: 3.85 hours
Wait, what? Where did Apple lie about anything?But people don't care when Apple lies to them. They only get upset if other companies lie. Microsoft being deceiving about the storage capacity of the Surface is terrible and they should be banished from the universe. Apple does the same thing, but it's ok because everyone does it. Or at least that's the logic of a lot of people here.
Lie? More like spin. Did you read how Apple now reports disk size/usage?
http://www.zdnet.com/surface-pro-ve...eing-dishonest-with-storage-space-7000011009/
Please do and then come back and ask that question if you still have it.
There was a decade of touch computers with x86 and Windows, all failed. Any reason this one will not?
Perhaps because the past doesn't equal the future and the market has changed/adopted the tablet concept more widely?