The new Tablet now has a higher price ($799 vs $499)
Well I would never have thought a i5 would be more expensive than a i3. Or that the performance wouldn't be the same. How I have had my head in the sand....
Also get the pricing right.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/20/technology/mobile/microsoft-surface-pro-3/
The Surface tablet continues to struggle and the idea to take down the iPad failed so with Surface Pro 3 the plan has changed.
The new Tablet now has a higher price ($799 vs $499) and is aimed at corporate
customers.
It also includes a crappy i3 processor instead of the i5 that the Surface Pro 2 had.
You can get a i5 or i7 but the prices goes way up.
Looks like the regular Surface RT tablets will be discontinued thus Surface will now start at $799 instead of $499.
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$799 (Core i3, 4 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD)
$999 (Core i5, 4 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD)
$1299 (Core i5, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD)
$1549 (Core i7, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD)
$1949 (Core i7, 8 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD)
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Surface RT caused MS to take a 900 million dollar write down ouch! Surface RT has always sold very poorly and did not have many apps available. A Surface Mini was developed but then the decision was made to no longer try to complete with low cost iPad's and Android tablets. Thus Surface RT will be cancelled shortly, collect them for door stops while you can.
:)
The RT Surface tablets should have never, ever come out. Just a giant mistake on MS's part. Says "Windows" on the damned thing and you cannot run any traditional Windows (x86) software on them. One of the most dead in the water products I've ever seen.
And here I was thinking, that I should get a lifetime membership of amiga.org.
It is not suitable for the SysAdmin to post stuff like this.
Anyway glad I did not throw money after amiga.org
A few got excited that the Pro 3 is $100 cheaper than the Pro 2. They easily achieved this by swapping out the nice i5 processor for the crappy i3. Even the original Surface Pro that's almost 2 years old had an i5 so this is a step back.
Looks like the regular Surface RT tablets will be discontinued thus Surface will now start at $799 instead of $499.
I assumed you'd want to correctly represent the device because of your keenness to keep us up to date with its ongoing failure. As opposed to other similar tablet releases that fail to get a mention here.
You are getting far too hung up on the fact it has a i3 in it. Lots of laptops come with i3 in that, for day to day stuff, is perfectly fine. A business looking to replace a fleet of aging laptops will not go "oh the i5 is so much more powerful lets get that!" they will look at the cost and go for the cheapest option. Especially if they have no need for i5 speeds.
You are hardly likely to hand a i5 or i7 powered computer to someone that is only going to be running powerpoint or wordprocessing. It is pointless.
Also do your math. $799 from $999 is not $100. Try $200.
When Surface Pro 2 failed to sell at $999 they reduced it to $899 and it has been that price for some time.
http://www.cnet.com/news/whats-new-with-the-microsoft-surface-pro-comparing-surface-pro-2-specs-vs-new-the-surface-pro-3/
Surface Pro always had an i5 so playing processor games by switching it to an i3 and bragging that it's cheaper is a so Microsoft. Everyone one is different but I would never buy or want a machine with an i3. Apple offers no machines with an i3 for a reason.
You are getting far too hung up on the fact it has a i3 in it. Lots of laptops come with i3 in that, for day to day stuff, is perfectly fine. A business looking to replace a fleet of aging laptops will not go "oh the i5 is so much more powerful lets get that!" they will look at the cost and go for the cheapest option. Especially if they have no need for i5 speeds.
You are hardly likely to hand a i5 or i7 powered computer to someone that is only going to be running powerpoint or wordprocessing. It is pointless.
Also do your math. $799 from $999 is not $100. Try $200.
Um, I can buy an i3 laptop for $300, so I want this why?
Maybe with an AMD processor and a better integrated GPU...
After all, I may not want big cpu power, but what about decent gaming capability?
Completely different beast, Iggy. It's not being made nor marketed for those wanting a $300 laptop, nor is it marketed towards gamers and gaming.
They are going for the enterprise market and driving the Surface 3 machines as laptop replacements to engineers, doctors, IT people, etc.
http://www.macworld.com/product/586734/21-5-inch-core-i3-imac-3-06ghz.html
Exact model I have, still works just fine for the minimal amount I use it.
Funny, but I don't see those people using tablets, and this offers few advantages over a laptop.
So, do you really think engineers, doctors, and IT people WANT a device like this?
I know people in all three fields, and I think I'd have a hard time selling them this device (and having previously sold electronics, I'm pretty sure of this).
Actually several systems at the hospital I work at are getting the tablet treatment. So yes there will be doctors, nurses and support staff running around with tablets and mobile devices. Several execs already have tablets and a couple have a Surface. And I know lots of people in the IT industry myself and nearly all have a tablet that they use in conjuntion with a laptop. So yes, Microsoft (if marketed right) have potential to make strides into the Corporate sector with these things.
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I can play linkies too.
http://www.lifehacker.co.uk/2014/05/20/10-reasons-microsofts-surface-pro-3-can-replace-laptop
At one of our local area hospitals (the one my parents trained at to be specific) only the dietary staff use tablets.
I have friends in IT too, and few of them are embracing the devices (and using them with a laptop seems redundant).
And the market where tablets are most popular, with young people and novice users, seems pretty far removed from the enterprise market you envision.
While the advantages of compact size and portability are obvious, I can't see this device doing more than displacing a small percentage of the other alternatives.
Nothing wrong with that list, I'm sure a few Windows fans will replace their laptops with a Surface Pro 3. The problem with Surface Pro is it never sells in large numbers. A few Windows fans always buy them.
Yes, only 4.6 million people bought Mac's in '13....
I've been wondering who still bought iMacs.
There must be a market for these, but I didn't understand it when the iMacs were introduced and I still don't get it.
I miss the first Surface, the real one.
http://www.tested.com/tech/3181-microsoft-surface-20-launching-early-2012/
Its a iPoolTable killer!
You get a really nice screen with a computer inside for not much more than the price of the screen. The 27 inch screen is beautiful and really large enough that you could live with only one screen if you had to.
The Surface tablet continues to struggle and the idea to take down the iPad failed so with Surface Pro 3 the plan has changed. The new Tablet now has a higher price ($799 vs $499) and is aimed at corporate customers. It also includes a crappy i3 processor instead of the i5 that the Surface Pro 2 had. You can get a i5 or i7 but the prices goes way up.
Happy computing!
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248464/Microsoft_doubles_down_on_2_in_1_enterprise_first_Surface_strategy?taxonomyId=241&pageNumber=2
Don't forget the most important revolutionary feature in the new Surface Pro 3. It's as thin as the original 2010 iPad. Also, you don't need features like 4G(LTE) or even 3G, Surface Pro 3 does not have anything like that. Why would it need it when it has classic WiFi. Maybe in 2018 the Surface if it's around will be as thin as the 2014 iPad.
Don't forget the most important revolutionary feature in the new Surface Pro 3. It's as thin as the original 2010 iPad. Also, you don't need features like 4G(LTE) or even 3G, Surface Pro 3 does not have anything like that. Why would it need it when it has classic WiFi. Maybe in 2018 the Surface if it's around will be as thin as the 2014 iPad.
And here I was thinking, that I should get a lifetime membership of amiga.org.
It is not suitable for the SysAdmin to post stuff like this.
Anyway glad I did not throw money after amiga.org
If tablets are popular, then by default a desktop or 'the old ways' are bad.
Its probably just another fad. People get excited about new technology.
Looks like the regular Surface RT tablets will be discontinued thus Surface will now start at $799 instead of $499.
@psxphill
Surface Pro 3 is cheaper than the Pro 2 because it uses the crappy i3 processor instead of the i5 that's in the Pro 2.
Everyone is different but I would never buy or want a machine with an i3.
may we put this thread to death? its an amiga forum after all!
I have I3 sandy bridge 3.30 ghz. (I might upgrade it to I5 Ivy bridge in Aug but I don't know yet.)This old computer has saved me. My AMD computer died. The hard drive died. I guess I use whatever I can get by.
I second that motion.
Nothing about the Surface is Amiga related. If this forum wants to be a alternative OS site how about changing the domain to altos.org.
As for donating, why should I! Many Amiga businesses get free/cheap publicity flogging their products on here and it remains the fault of the Amiga.org not to pursue these businesses for higher contributions to keep this site active.
Hey, that's super, and far be it from me to dole out advice in regards to what people do in their own beds. :)
A $99 Android tablet is a better solution for the "cookie recipe" types, and that's just fine. Sure beats paying $700 for an iPad to sit on the crapper playing Candy Crush like a good majority of iPad users do.
HP ePrint works terrible for me on my iPads, I know that much - and corporations still prefer wired over wireless anyways. I've used the Lantronix solutions with far better success. AirPlay (AirPrint) is not big in the enterprise by any stretch.
whoever gets hurt that desktop isnt the everybodys darling, is sick. i have enough of desktop, or rather of those uncanny tower bricks under the table (with loose hard drives sticking out of them), because desktop is long dead, with 386, performa and amiga4000, sorry to say. now, who does really care of form factor of computers as soon as it is compact enough and does its job? i loved the a 600 and i like surface. may we put this thread to death? its an amiga forum after all!
...Amazing how many people still connect a mouse and keyboard to their laptops when they really want to get something done.
Amazing how many people still connect a mouse and keyboard to their laptops when they really want to get something done.
And memory and graphics cards are also important, an i3 with a reasonable amount of ram (say 16 to 24 GB) and a GB or two graphics memory on a good card will perform better than an i5 starved on 4 or 8 GB of RAM and a cheap 512 Mb graphics card.
Laptops - Desktop is dead
Netbooks - Desktop is dead
Tablets - Desktop is dead
The mantra continues. The desktop serves as a place for high end power computing with expansion that isn't possible in any other form factor. The traditional desktop has morphed from a huge tower, to a mini-tower, to a desktop case, to something small enough to mount on the back of the monitor.
Don't get me wrong, portable devices have gained in power and for many people they are certainly good enough for everything that they do with a "computing" device. However, I think you'll find that "desktops" still have a very meaningful place in the computing world for some time to come. There are many job functions that don't require portability and many times when I get up off the couch to use my desktop so that I can more efficiently get the job done. Especially, when it comes to any kind of content creation.
Amazing how many people still connect a mouse and keyboard to their laptops when they really want to get something done.
an i3 with a reasonable amount of ram (say 16 to 24 GB) and a GB or two graphics memory on a good card will perform better than an i5 starved on 4 or 8 GB of RAM and a cheap 512 Mb graphics card.
...being a nearly vertically integrated monopoly, they don't follow standards very well. They also make their own "standards" that don't work with anyone else's products and are not enterprise friendly...
No self respecting hardcore gamer would use an i5 machine :)
No self respecting hardcore gamer would use an i5 machine :)Real hardcore gamers use whatever let's them run the games they want properly.
Real hardcore gamers use whatever let's them run the games they want properly.
$799 i3 entry level Surface Pro 3 is the best system for 4K hardcore gamers.
:)
There's a big difference in a casual gamer and a hardcore gamer.
Me, I like my gaming experience like this - you may differ.
No self respecting hardcore gamer would use an i5 machine :)
Didn't say it couldn't pack a lot of punch, and I'm sure such a system is great for the vast, vast majority of people.
For what I require out of a gaming PC, it wouldn't cut the mustard by a long shot, is all.
Maybe it was a Windows 8 thing but the two i3 systems I tried we're slow as f*ck and unresponsive sonetimes.
Hey Iggy,
In this machine, which is actually an older gaming PC from a few years ago - an i7 2600K, 32 GB RAM, nVidia 590. My main gaming machine has a 4930K oc'ed a wee bit, 32 GB RAM, and 2 Titan cards. Original Titan cards, not the new Titan Black. Both run SSD's, this machine having a 240 GB OCZ for the boot drive and a standard SATA 1 TB drive for media, and the other more powerful machine has a 1 TB Samsung SSD solely. Those drives were on sale recently for $460 so I had to snap one up, been real happy with it thus far.
The 4930 runs a bit hot for my tastes and I should have water cooled it from the start, but the Zalman cooler I have on it keeps it within range.
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/05/20/microsoft-corporation-launches-thermonuclear-war-o.aspx
Former Windows 8 developer
This reminds me of the old Windows Vista days when it was almost universally hated but had a few defenders. MS solved the Vista problem by killing it and replacing with something better. I never bought or used Vista and I'll never buy or use Win8.
This reminds me of the old Windows Vista days when it was almost universally hated but had a few defenders. MS solved the Vista problem by killing it and replacing with something better. I never bought or used Vista and I'll never buy or use Win8.
Microsoft hasn't used the word "metro" in a couple years, and then only as a code name, never officially. The new apps are Windows Store Apps.
And every person in the MS related Press areas still refers to it as "Metro" behind closed doors. Some call it Windows Store Apps, some say "Modern UI". Call it what you like. I call the brick a brack "formerly known as Metro" simply "Legoland Design School".
Even the most fervent MS press folks like MJ Foley, Ed Bott, and our own illustrious ex Amigan, Paul Thurrott use the Metro term in passing still. You can gild a turd, but I can still smell the stink :) But let's not get into semantics, it's just a name.
It (Metro) indeed was full, blazing official term at one time, but they hit a lawsuit snag on it.
I call it 1996 AOL wants their interface back.
Cant we go back to win95? No more metro junk.
Actually, they just kept polishing it and released the results as Win7 (which seems to be much better received).
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As much as I like them--and I do--iPads are still just iPads. If they were actual desktop replacements running Mac OS X, I'd view them differently. Being able to do "everything" on a Surface Pro is a big draw. (I'm still going to game on my PC and consoles, but I'm sure you get my meaning.)
I'm typing this on my iPhone, but let me know when I can run Xcode on it. ;-)
You didn't watch today's WWDC Keynote. iPhones, iPads, Macs are all extensions of the same thing. It's an information ecosystem that shares everything within it. If you are at all interested in Apple watch the Keynote, the vision is back.
The highlight of WWDC this year was Swift
As much as I like them--and I do--iPads are still just iPads. If they were actual desktop replacements running Mac OS X, I'd view them differently. Being able to do "everything" on a Surface Pro is a big draw. (I'm still going to game on my PC and consoles, but I'm sure you get my meaning.)
You didn't watch today's WWDC Keynote. iPhones, iPads, Macs are all extensions of the same thing. It's an information ecosystem that shares everything within it. If you are at all interested in Apple watch the Keynote, the vision is back.
For most work purposes, however, it was fine. I'm sure if it had been an i3 I would've been able to stick with it as a primary (as well as super portable) work machine.
But I'm sorry, even the improved Windows 8.1 is a complete piece of #$%^ Jekyll and Hyde job. It's the merging of the new tile apps with the old system, they just don't get along at all and create all sorts of confusing scenarios. You will never convince me otherwise that it isn't anything but a horrible mistake.
The difference is Apple never promised you could run Mac applications on the iPad.
Oh wait, I remember I can't easily figure out how to close a Metro app. I guess they just close themselves after not being used for a while like all tablet OS's do? I really don't know, and I shouldn't have to figure out some strange incantation of how to close it, so I just switch back to the desktop view where I had opened the PDF from in Windows Explorer.
When did Microsoft promise you could run desktop applications on Surface RT?
The dropping of basically everyone responsible for Win8 does give me hope for Win9, but we'll have to see how that all plays out - is Microsoft really willing to own up to the fact that they willfully made a colossal mistake, and go back to the drawing board?
By giving customers the standard Windows Desktop in Surface RT it's implied that it's Windows compatible.
From Windows Supersite.
"Windows 8 is not well-designed. It's a mess. But Windows 8 is a bigger problem than that. Windows 8 is a disaster in every sense of the word.
This is not open to debate, is not part of some cute imaginary world where everyone's opinion is equally valid or whatever. Windows 8 is a disaster. Period."
"More Microsoft exec departures mark end of a Windows era
With Jon DeVaan and Grant George officially retired and most of rest of Windows 8 team out to pasture, Microsoft silently acknowledges complete lack of faith in Windows 8."
When did Microsoft promise you could run desktop applications on Surface RT?
Possible ways of closing a metro app
Alt f4
click the close button in the top right
right click on the task bar icon and click close
open task manager and end task it
The close button and task bar icon might only be in the latest Windows 8.1 update, but Alt f4 even works in Windows 8. Alt-f4 has been used to close windows since the 80's.
Prior to that the only way I could figure out how to close that rubbish was by grabbing the "window" at the top center of the screen, and dragging it downward entirely off the bottom of the screen. Makes sense if you're using a tablet with your finger, rubbish for use with a mouse. But just wanted to add one more way to your list, lol. ;)
Touch on the desktop is a fool's errand anyway, because it is just plain uncomfortable to hold your arm up and interact with something in front of your face for extended periods of time.
Another problem is that Windows Store apps suck on the desktop, so being able to run them on a desktop is meaningless. Apple got it right, tablet and phone are different to desktops and laptops.
And touch screens on laptops and desktops will always be secondary to trackpads (or I suppose mice). The price of the touch interface on the two or three 27 inch or larger monitors you have on your desktop would be better spent on a 4K screen instead.
The scale of Windows 8.x’s failure is staggering!
http://betanews.com/2014/05/08/the-scale-of-windows-8-xs-failure-is-staggering/
You sure spend a lot of time trying to get us to buy Windows 8.
I said Windows 7 works fine for me so why do you care what version of Windows I or others in this thread use?
It's a fact that Windows 8 was a huge failure and most of the team that created it have been fired. Those facts are not debatable they are easily verified.
If Microsoft losing 900 million on the Windows 8 based Tablet is success to you I would hate to see what you think failure looks like. That almost 1 billion dollar loss was in one quarter of the year.
I have never encouraged anyone to buy Windows 8.
You sure spend a lot of time trying to get us to not buy Windows 8.
Including lying that Microsoft promised desktop Apps would work on Suface RT.
One minute you say people have retired and now you're saying they were fired. It's hard to verify facts when they change all the time.
The loss was on Surface and not Windows 8, it's the first thing you'd find out when trying to verify the facts. Microsoft made a loss on the original xbox for a long time as well.
Losing 1.2 billion dollars sounds like a lot, but they have 88 billion dollars in cash and had an income of 5.7 billion dollars for the last quarter. Which makes Surface the same type of failure that people go through every week playing the lottery.
Including lying that Microsoft promised desktop Apps would work on Suface RT.
I actually know people who went to PC World, had a tablet demonstrated to them, they were told "it runs windows, so you already know what to do"... They get it home and it doesn't run any of the software they already have despite the fact it is running windows...
The graph looks quite different if you add Windows 8 & 8.1 figures together, so you can tell he wasn't even trying to be objective about it.Yes, the graph certainly would look different if no sales of 8.1 were from someone upgrading from the horror that was vanilla 8.
Yes, the graph certainly would look different if no sales of 8.1 were from someone upgrading from the horror that was vanilla 8.
Tons of enterprise customers do this as well. Get boatloads of Win8 PC's and reimage to Windows 7 before they are deployed in the company.
Hadn't gone to 8.1 because apparently driver support wasn't complete for the AlienFX keyboard on my model according to Dell, but maybe I'll give it a shot anyway.
Don't tell the masses the truth, they hate that! :)
Yes, you can turn Metro off entirely, people. Easy peasy, a couple clicks. I don't begrudge anyone disliking W8, but the witch hunt stuff is just hysterical.
YOU CAN OPT TO NEVER SEE "METRO" AT ALL AGAIN ONCE YOU DEFAULT TO DESKTOP MODE. :)
Installed Classic Shell, which give you the start button, and already now I feel much more comfortable.
Don't tell the masses the truth, they hate that! :)That's bullshìt and you know it. You can turn off booting into Metro. That's all. You can't stop Metro from popping up when you hit the Windows key or get the Start menu back without a third-party hack - and even with a third-party hack, W8 only just approaches being as usable as 7. It's still got loads of issues - for instance, the fact that minimizing windows no longer sends them to the back of the Alt-Tab queue, so you can decide you're done with something for the moment and put it away only to then immediately switch back into it when you meant to go to something else. You end up having to bubble-sort your windows just to get them into the order that XP would've had them in all along.
Yes, you can turn Metro off entirely, people. Easy peasy, a couple clicks. I don't begrudge anyone disliking W8, but the witch hunt stuff is just hysterical.
YOU CAN OPT TO NEVER SEE "METRO" AT ALL AGAIN ONCE YOU DEFAULT TO DESKTOP MODE. :)
That's bullshìt and you know it. You can turn off booting into Metro. That's all. You can't stop Metro from popping up when you hit the Windows key or get the Start menu back without a third-party hack - and even with a third-party hack, W8 only just approaches being as usable as 7. It's still got loads of issues - for instance, the fact that minimizing windows no longer sends them to the back of the Alt-Tab queue, so you can decide you're done with something for the moment and put it away only to then immediately switch back into it when you meant to go to something else. You end up having to bubble-sort your windows just to get them into the order that XP would've had them in all along.
Win8 is feces and everyone knows it except the True Faithful. You've lost, guys. Time to admit it.
Believe what you like, John. I'm telling you I use W8 daily and I don't hit Metro at all, and it didn't take rocket science to set that up. I use Windows 8 in entirely "desktop" mode.Smarmily condescend all you want, but the fact is that it will throw you right back to the Start screen any time you try to pull up a menu of your applications unless you employ a third-party hack. If you use vanilla 8.1 and you don't ever see the Start screen, then, well, whatever. Guess an obsessive dependence on taskbar pinning got you something. But for those of us who actually want to be able to pull up a menu of the applications installed on the computer without having to wade through a tablet-oriented wasteland of giant tiles, that's not an option.
However, if you buy a new PC with 8 installed, you can indeed run it in a desktop UI form and never see the tablet style UI. You can, John, lol. I do it every single day, as do many, many others. This is not pulling rabbits out of hats, it's a simple config option in 8.1 u1.
In my view it comes down to two simple questions.Or, alternately, you could approach it rationally and simple come to the conclusion that it's terrible because it is, in fact, terrible. But no, that can't be it, obviously it must be that everyone who looked at Windows 8 and said "that's stupid!" is just a Backwards Neanderthal Who Hates Change! How can we help but sneer at them for being so backward as to not unequivocally approve of any new design simply for being new without regard for whether it's actually any good or not?!
1. Are you a person that does the same things the same way all the time.
2. Are you a person that wants to learn new ways of doing things for the better.
The last question is predicated on the ideal that there may be a better way of doing things. When you approach it with a closed mind of course there's no way it could ever be true.
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Or, alternately, you could approach it rationally and simple come to the conclusion that it's terrible ....
I tend to agree with part of your comment. It's people that "looked at it" that don't like it. Not the one's using it.Speaking as someone who's had to put up with using it on his work computer for months, you're full of it.
He was referring to the Surface 3, John. Which is actually getting quite positive hands on reviews.
I think people just look for any reason to hate m$ft.Because it couldn't be that we actually have honest negative opinions about something, no sir...
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EDIT; So, tried the App Store, and now Windows insist I use the hotmail password to logon to my computer, not the custom admin password I made when Windows 8 was installed. Odd and annoying.
Maybe I should have KNOWN this would happen, but I cant really say I asked or was told by the OS that this would happen. Im sure there isnt anything "bad" that happens cause of this, but I personally dont like
programs/OSs taking "artistical freedoms" in giving you features you didnt explicitly asked for.
If you run Windows Store Apps you will need to run the modern interface. Windows Store Apps do not run in the Desktop. You can see them in the task bar and pin a shortcut to them but they actually run in the modern interface. It's still two headed, though not as confusingly so.
The Windows Store has you sign up for an account, in the same way Apple's App Store does. That's why you sign in with it, it wouldn't make any sense to sign into the store with an account that is local to your computer.
I don't want to have a Hotmail account because MS has proven time and time again they can and will pry into your personal information and or leak your personal information do to incompetence.
It's still got loads of issues - for instance, the fact that minimizing windows no longer sends them to the back of the Alt-Tab queue, so you can decide you're done with something for the moment and put it away only to then immediately switch back into it when you meant to go to something else. You end up having to bubble-sort your windows just to get them into the order that XP would've had them in all along.
Win8 is feces and everyone knows it except the True Faithful. You've lost, guys. Time to admit it.
I have never noticed that has changed, did you or did you read that online?Direct personal experience on account of, as I've repeatedly said, having to put up with this crap on my work computer. But hey, you just keep insisting that I haven't tried it.
When I'm done with software I just close it, because it makes me more productive as I'm not having to think about what order my alt-tab queue is in.Well whoop-de-friggin'-doo for you. I'll definitely get right on adjusting my entire workflow to fit what you think is best.
Direct personal experience on account of, as I've repeatedly said, having to put up with this crap on my work computer. But hey, you just keep insisting that I haven't tried it.
Well whoop-de-friggin'-doo for you. I'll definitely get right on adjusting my entire workflow to fit what you think is best.
I don't care if you change it. I don't care if you use Windows 98. You're a baked cake, you don't want to learn anything. All I can hope is that you don't teach others bad habits.I like how thinking that this particular design is terrible garbage equals "not wanting to learn anything."
The idea that the expansions available on iPad is even remotely comparable to a full fledged Windows portable machine like the surface is insane. I've tried them all on Apple devices, from things like the HyperDrive to the Mophie devices for the iPhone. All are a kludge and are inelegant at best.
Had the same issues with Android and SD cards, unfortunately. If/when they ever get it working like it should - seamless storage between the onboard and card, I'll likely switch to Android entirely.
Well, it does work, but it's highly dependent on the app as well. Winamp for example, works just fine with SD cards. Fire it up and your media is there right away, ready to play.
VLC though, it sits there churning every single time I fire it up on my Android devices rescanning the SD card for media, and that takes far too long with a 64 GB card stacked full of media.