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Microsoft Says Its New Surface Book 2 is Twice as Powerful as Latest MacBook Pro
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I don't think in the age of superthin notebooks (which is obviously Apple's design direction, and apparently the Surface as well) we're going to see non-soldered primary chips (RAM, etc.), but I'd definitely agree on some better GPU options (hopeful with Apple's interest in AR). A 17" with a display density like a 15", and resolution to account for the display size, with 5 USB-Cs, two TB3 and an SD slot ... hmmm, since it's dream mode, I'll go ahead and say an option for at least a GTX 1070
FWIW, I'm actually all in on USB-C, with a few TB3 ports, so I kind of don't mind dongling - though I might miss the convenience of an SD card slot.
FWIW #2, I've used a Razor Blade machine a few times, nice performance, great general packaging, awful trackpad, funky driver issues. Came _so_ close to getting one for one of our portable xR demo machines, wound up with a different, less portable, more powerful option (that also has an awful track pad and driver jankiness ...).
I still prefer MacOS, I'm old school *NIX, I spend a ton of time in terminal, I _way_ prefer using is for opensource based projects, love the free dev tools, doing iOS dev I'm in XCode, and for general computing, I just prefer it (photo management, video editing). As a professional I also need end-to-end support of hardware + software, some commercial apps, which is why - when anyone asks - I don't forsake Apple and MS run desktop Linux
In general, I've experienced personally, and in the 25+ years I've been doing "this" (you know, that ...) professionally, more over time performance degradation and runtime funk on Windows vs. MacOS or various Linux flavors (not specifically attributable to AV products).
Except you are still running a garbage OS. I would run Linux over Microsoft OS
Actually they are turning their back on their traditional fan base and focusing on gimmicks that appeal to the emoji generation . It's turning into an emoji company trying to be super hip and cool run by old men .... Angela like all her other appointments has helped out rising the prices .... profits are up while more and more traditional fans leave.
Problem with aiming at the young.... they switch so quickly ...
Windows 10 is okay, but Windows is prevalent because of vendor lock-in and exclusivity. Generally speaking, most business software is only available on Windows. There is effectively no choice.
Secondly, popularity and quality are two completely different metrics. For example, the Transformers movie franchise sells a lot more tickets and makes a lot more money than most movies, but they are also complete garbage.
It’s assumptions from the past people like to refer too. Same those who hail everything Apple does today
Windows used to be a good os but sadly the last decent version was windows 7, everything after has been terrible, especially with spyware 10.
I spend 8-10 hours a day on Windows at work and it is still horrible compared to MacOS. Too many issues and the user experience just fails.
Yep, and Microsoft is bringing it to mobile as a piece of their continuity solution.
Over time, the benefit of Apples ecosystem is going to slowly erode as other vendors work together to build heterogeneous alternatives that work across multiple vendors and platforms. As that happens, the staleness of Apple's approach is going to become more evident. By staleness, I mean Apple deciding for you which technologies you get to use on which platforms.
The reality is that the Surface Book doesn't have an Apple alternative, and you'd need to by an iPad Pro and a Macbook Pro to have any kind of comparison.
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They have one...
your right...i don't...if i did I'd buy the appropriate device to use with that app .
They may drop it at some point, but they seem to be going out a high note!
"Windows rot" isn't a term, its BS sprouted continuously by people who dont know better. I dont believe in luck or coincidence so If I can run a windows 10 box with multiple VMs, media servers, etc simultaneously and not have an issue...so can anyone else.
I agree with you when looking what they've been done with messages. But the youngsters over here want freedom and total customizable phones. Many of the youngsters over here find the iPhone the perfect solution for elderly people. They want the latest tech and certainly not that big bezel 8 phone.
Samsung and huawei are trending over here. But also in part because lots of Apple services don’t work (Apple Pay) or are too expensive (iTunes) and everyone is using WhatsApp over here.
Not sure what business Apple wants anymore anyway. Just iOS/devices ?? Their new retail configuration dedicates more space for iPhone cases than computer hardware.
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Well... You know you are damn wrong when the only point you have against the competitors who are kicking your ass is desperately trying to make fun of them.
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Eh... 8th generation quad core cpu vs older generation dual core? Plus you forgot (for your own convenience) the NVidia 1050/1060 vs Intel Iris? That could be easily 2x as powerful. Seems there is not much reason to get pissed off about.
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Actually Microsoft long term planning has paid off. You can now have a MacBook Pro and iPad in one with the same software. Each release Microsoft is perfecting it while we need two different expensive devices for apple’s solution. If Apple keeps innovating at the pace they've been done the last five years they surely will be needing those billions rather sooner than later.
Windows 10 is as stable as Mac OS is today. Same for viruses. Where Apple stalled these last five years everybody else has been delivering and perfecting their products. Kudos to Microsoft.
Hmm Just spent several hours trying to find why a game on my son's Asus doesn't work and it was the graphics driver. Auto update said it was the latest and everything was fine but in fact you need to go to the Geforce site and download it yourself to be sure because update doesn't really work properly.
Wanted to prepare a USB key for my daughter and knowing it'll be used on a Windows machine, went to the Asus which said it was 200mb. Eventually had to reformat it on the mac to get it up to 8Gb
My wife was complaining her .pdf file was too big at 2.9mb so I used preview and Quartz filter to make it a lot smaller- about 650kb. I don't know if you can do that on windows but I've never seen it.
I also had to run maintenance on the registry and as my dad bought a new HP, so had to uninstall all the bloatware on that for him.
Just another typical week with Windows.
But it is a lot better I'll give you that
It has to in order to keep up. If these were cars, the Pro would be 1500 lbs. and 500 clean, reliable HP. The Surface would be a beast at 3200 lbs. and 1000 HP piston knocking, missing hunk of crap.
Or like comparing the Challenger HellCat to a Ferrari.
Or like comparing the Challenger HellCat to a Ferrari.