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Microsoft Reveals New Band 2, Lumia Phones, Surface Pro 4, and Surface Book
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Not going to lie. I have been wanting to get out of the Apple ecosystem ever since the iPhone. I like this from Microsoft
Check out the salt mine this guy is toiling in.
typical kid in-love and manipulated of the video event
maybe wait and try it before sell all your goodies??!!?
Seems like you're trying to battle anecdotal evidence with anecdotal evidence. Not saying it's the norm, but the actual SP3 users in this thread haven't run into any of the issues you're talking about.
Says who? I use mine daily, running pro apps all of the time. I run most of the Adobe and Autodesk suites all of the time.
what about "facebook"? Are you unhappy with that?
And yet when Apple announces their products 3 months before, you must be jumping up and down in joy without even trying it.
how can you buy something based on a video event ?!?
i mean these type of persons are targeted by Microsoft with these products
Not me. I will never buy a product even a car or house without know about it in real life, but you just say what Microsoft wanted
For me. Who has a computer for serious gaming, no tablet because the little use I make of one cannot justify its cost, and looking for a laptop with actual performance. I don't care if it's heavier than a surface pro, but I can use it everyday for work, run real applications on it and play on it during travels or anything else where I can't get bring my desktop computer.
Had I been a Windows user, I would probably love to own a Surface Book.
Looks and sounds like a quality piece of kit.
What I find really interesting is how much Apple and Microsoft have started to 'lend' from one another. Both hardware and software wise. Should make for some intense competition in the near future.
Hoping for new, redesigned MacBook Pros packed with lots of awesome stuff. Soon.
That's still what I would love to own.
Looks and sounds like a quality piece of kit.
What I find really interesting is how much Apple and Microsoft have started to 'lend' from one another. Both hardware and software wise. Should make for some intense competition in the near future.
Hoping for new, redesigned MacBook Pros packed with lots of awesome stuff. Soon.
That's still what I would love to own.
Pretty impressed, I've not said that about apple stuff for a while now...!
I still cant say apple watch without giggling..
I still cant say apple watch without giggling..
for that you can replace your real computer and surface with a nice Alienware laptop
I agree. I've always said that 2-in-1's made a lot of sense so long as someone could execute the OS properly.
I think Apple will continue to methodically evolve iOS and iPad until it eventually replaces the aging Mac OS.
I think that Panos did an excellent job with his presentation btw. You can tell these products (well, Surface in particular) are his babies. This is what made Steve's presentations so endearing. He loved the products, and you could tell he invested a lot of his time and energy into them.
You don't get the sense of that from Phil Schiller, or Tim Cook, or Eddie Cue. And of course Sir Jony Ive seems so pretentious, he is basically a walking parody of himself (now that's a conundrum).
Panos is not nearly as polished as Steve, or close to being as charismatic - but he's come a long way as a speaker from the first time I watched a presentation. You could tell he loved those Surfaces. I've never seen Microsoft employees actually genuinely excited for their products before. It was astonishing.
Notice the trainwreck that was the Google event just a few days ago. Those guys were so dispassionate I wondered why I was bothering to watch something that they didn't even seem they wanted to be at.
The guy who did the Lumia presentation cracked me up as well. He was such a ... different ... personality to have on the stage, but it worked!
There was some actual energy in this presentation, something I haven't seen in these tech companies in a little while. Refreshing.
You don't get the sense of that from Phil Schiller, or Tim Cook, or Eddie Cue. And of course Sir Jony Ive seems so pretentious, he is basically a walking parody of himself (now that's a conundrum).
Panos is not nearly as polished as Steve, or close to being as charismatic - but he's come a long way as a speaker from the first time I watched a presentation. You could tell he loved those Surfaces. I've never seen Microsoft employees actually genuinely excited for their products before. It was astonishing.
Notice the trainwreck that was the Google event just a few days ago. Those guys were so dispassionate I wondered why I was bothering to watch something that they didn't even seem they wanted to be at.
The guy who did the Lumia presentation cracked me up as well. He was such a ... different ... personality to have on the stage, but it worked!
There was some actual energy in this presentation, something I haven't seen in these tech companies in a little while. Refreshing.
This is the official note from Apple: "You don't need it. We know what you need until competition beats us.. then we follow them!"
Or I can keep my real computer, whichalready has way more horsepower than any Alienware that will be made in the next few years, does everything I want or need, and supports a lot of game in 4K.
And buy this because this is sexy as hell, is light, can become a tablet for the few times i need it, support a stylus and has a professional look an alienware sure does not have.
You're trying to compare replacing a Mac Pro + macbook air with a macbook pro.
I keep hoping MS hits their stride again. I like the new CEO, he seems to be moving them in a good direction. If they built up their industrial design team and got rid of the last few people who seem to think not-quite-there is good enough, they might get interesting.
The Office/El Cap fiasco is inexcusable, though. They blew that in a big, big way.
I'm still wary of a company competing with their customers. MS will eventually have to decide if they want to maintain the open model they were built on, or go walled garden like Apple. They've shown they're capable of better products when they go the walled garden route, but changing their business model over entirely is going to require deep gene therapy and more than a little turmoil.
We may wind up with Apple and MS competing using the same business model and Google being the open alternative-- most likely by being more open than Microsoft ever was by open sourcing more of their code in exchange for more saleable customer information.
The Office/El Cap fiasco is inexcusable, though. They blew that in a big, big way.
I'm still wary of a company competing with their customers. MS will eventually have to decide if they want to maintain the open model they were built on, or go walled garden like Apple. They've shown they're capable of better products when they go the walled garden route, but changing their business model over entirely is going to require deep gene therapy and more than a little turmoil.
We may wind up with Apple and MS competing using the same business model and Google being the open alternative-- most likely by being more open than Microsoft ever was by open sourcing more of their code in exchange for more saleable customer information.
Like Apple never caved into the pressure of making large iPhones or large/small iPads or stylus.. Never! Apple never caves in!
Hahaha, wow, the video they made (here on YT):
... is so Apple-like, I seriously kept expecting to hear Jony Ive chime in - in fact, do a little SJI in your head while you're watching, it's _super_ fun
That's an immensely fugly Fisher-Price rip-off.