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Microsoft Debuts $999 Surface Laptop, 'Streamlined' Windows 10 S, and More at Education Event
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Major difference that you seem to over look:
One is supposed to target Pros amongst its user base ( MacBook Pro ) . The other for education ( this Surface )
One is supposed to target Pros amongst its user base ( MacBook Pro ) . The other for education ( this Surface )
You mean buying a MacBook at a cheaper price. Apple is getting punched on all fronts. But they had it coming.
What bad things have Microsoft done to Minecraft? Seems to me the platform has exploded under MS tutelage/funding. Sales continue to be strong. I see no end in sight, 200 million sold by 2020.
I've been to UC Davis. It's nice. Super nice. Not as nice is in that picture. That's like Richard Branson's vacation house nice.
They've done nothing to Minecraft, which is the issue, and the game has died out. I really doubt the sales increased, but even if they did, I don't care because the community is gone. They also are probably the ones who killed Bukkit.
Exactly! Don't get me wrong, if someone adamantly doesn't want a touchscreen and they want the oem to pass along the savings I don't blame them. It's just those blanket statements which make it seem like a touchscreen is useless for everyone bother me. Just the benefit of using a touchscreen instead of craning my arm/wrist/hand in an injury prone position while using mine on my lap (gasp...it IS a "LAPtop") is enough for me to love my touchscreen.
4GB of RAM needs to die on premium hardware already. RAM is simply too cheap nowadays. On the other hand, keeping the base RAM low forces developers to make efficient software.
I like this amiable conversation we were able to have haha. Too much blatant negativity on here lately. One of these days I'll get around to building a gaming PC.
And oh, never saw that before lol, thanks.
When I first looked at that image and the large font I got excited, cause I thought MS went into the escort business, but then I realized It's just a thousand dollar laptop with crappy 4 gigs of ram and a crippled version of Windows.
Except the MacBook runs macOS, which is a necessary and sufficient condition for probably half the Mac owners.
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They only launched Minecraft: Story Mode & Minecraft: Education Edition. Also sales are up to 121 million from 60 million when MS bought Mojang in 2014. That's f-en amazing no matter how you slice it. I don't know anything about some niche community that they axed, but that will always happen when something goes 'Hollywood'.
Yes, the last part... 4GiB was considered a huge amount in 2006. New software has managed to chew all that up without any real benefit.
Windows Slim. Much more capable with true multitasking for most households than iOS with the option of upgrading to Windows 10 Pro for free until 12/31/2017.
I don't care about those versions. PC version is the good one. It wasn't a niche community; it was basically the ONLY community at the time MS bought it, which was when Minecraft was already one of the top selling games for multiple years.
Yet sales increased by 100% since Microsoft owned Mojang, refuting your narrative that they ruined it.
Heh, yeah, at least there is no brown color available.
Seriously, the Hardware looks cool.
Windows 10 Pro is usable and i even like it somehow. But that limited Windows S idea is just like an evolution of Windows RT, and this will fail for sure. People will expect the freedom they are used to have, but they won't have it. This will lead to frustration, and bad mouthing of the surface laptop. This even has the potential to harm the good reputation of the whole surface brand.
Good grief. Do you people even read? And this is just from the 1st comments page. Not going to bother going through the other 13.
It's a pared down, locked down version of Win10 because that is the intended purpose in an education setting. A sandboxed desktop environment.
It's not meant for you or the average consumer.
For education, you still need to be able to install software.
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I don't care about the sales. I'm don't own any stocks related to Minecraft sales, so they do not matter to me. The game was much more fun when Mojang ran it, and now it's over. IDK who's still playing it, probably all the elementary school kids who are just getting into video games.
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Steve Jobs intentionally put it in the iPhone and called it iPod when he unveiled the iPhone