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why would anyone get the surface laptop 4? comparing the model sold for £1300 at UK John Lewis with the surface book 2 I got for the same price (albeit at a post-christmas discount) 2 years ago - worse screen with ~ half the resolution (2256 x 1504 vs 3000 x 2000) - considerably crappier camera & no second camera - worse overall battery capacity (47.4Wh vs 70Wh) - discrete intel XE graphics instead of GTX 1050 (~45% slower albeit more power-efficient, but then again you have integrated graphics if you want that) - slightly worse processor performance (newish meh i5 vs. old but solid i7) - heavier (~30% or so) - less solid body - crappier keyboard and touchpad (mostly b/c of the above point) - it's not detachable or possible to turn the screen around for table mode and I guess - slightly faster memory - more SSD space out of the box, but no support for swapping for other m.2 drives e: added link Private Speech fucked around with this message at 12:52 on Jun 25, 2021 |
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Jun 25, 2021 12:40
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:Seriously I don't know how people use laptops without a separate left and right mouse button. Lenovo goes one step further and bestows us with the godly middle mouse button too, perfect for opening new tabs with the best laptops don't need them because you can do a two-finger tap to right-click, which is definitely more elegant Cybernetic Vermin posted:i don't think *that* is where this'll fall down in any way that matters, the fraction of people who will follow the 7-step instructions to install a random apk from a forum is about the same as those who jailbreak their iphone in 2021 (and largely irrelevant) i mostly meant if they put out another phone that's explicitly android-based. getting google play working is definitely something that a lot of (even relative non-nerds) do when they buy poo poo like kindle fires Cybernetic Vermin posted:more likely literally no one (but me, having already outed myself here) in the world will care and it'll be a junk feature only used by app generation packages to also add their trash to the windows store. oh absolutely
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Jun 25, 2021 14:08
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Private Speech posted:why would anyone get the surface laptop 4? lmao what garbagee
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Jun 25, 2021 14:10
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Buck Turgidson posted:it's not really choice, the trackpoint requires a bit too much pressure and gets uncomfortable after a while. Agreed with the default settings but make the sensitivity the lowest and the mouse speed the fastest. Should have an option for both deep in the mouse settings.
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Jun 25, 2021 14:13
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:oho, so windows 11 will run android apps natively, making it almost certain that microsoft will take another swing at phones in the not too distant future. despite the mess of previous attempts i welcome anything that might loosen googles defacto grip on the phone market in much of the world. if anything it's an attempt to try and get a very late entry into the cheap school laptop market that chromebooks dominate. android devotees lol aren't going to want to have to hack the play store onto a lovely winphone-take-three and i doubt microsoft cares about the $50 third-world phone market
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Jun 25, 2021 14:47
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Chris Knight posted:he's a trackball wizard a trackball wizard has such a supple wrist.
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Jun 25, 2021 16:19
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this tracks with my maintenance and cleaning of larger epsons. trying to get the cleaning done without a full service visits involved having a negotiation with a print header as it insisted i fix it and also that i couldn't possibly do it muself
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Jun 25, 2021 17:14
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lol at having to install printer drivers in tyool 2021
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Jun 25, 2021 17:29
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but the checkbox is checked, it shouldnt be a problem anymore?
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Jun 25, 2021 17:51
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lol https://ntdotdev.wordpress.com/2021/02/06/state-of-the-windows-how-many-layers-of-ui-inconsistencies-are-in-windows-10/
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Jun 25, 2021 19:26
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Chris Knight posted:lol tbh its kindof amazing
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Jun 25, 2021 19:45
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:Seriously I don't know how people use laptops without a separate left and right mouse button. Lenovo goes one step further and bestows us with the godly middle mouse button too, perfect for opening new tabs with multi finger tap to click is a thing and works perfectly well on my xps
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Jun 25, 2021 20:09
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i'm sacrificing my surface pro x to selfhost windows 11. if nothing else, it can't make it any worse than it is.
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Jun 25, 2021 20:16
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Drastic Actions posted:surface pro x why
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Jun 25, 2021 20:18
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arm64 dotnet development work, it was the best (and only) computer for it for a while. as a computer it's not that terrible, the screen and speakers are great, as is the pen. but qualcomm chip sucks and drags the whole thing down. now I have the m1 mac and run windows in a VM and it runs circles around it. but I need that for dev work.
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Jun 25, 2021 20:23
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Chris Knight posted:lol the 3.1 icons in a dll is a bit of a cop out. how about the odbc excel file data source "select workbook" dialog instead:  mmmm windows 3.1 icons still in use, good to see.
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Jun 25, 2021 21:09
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Chalks posted:the 3.1 icons in a dll is a bit of a cop out. how about the odbc excel file data source "select workbook" dialog instead: that whole layout is period correct, hello my little friend
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Jun 25, 2021 21:27
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yeah that’s a surprisingly weak set of examples. the about dialog has been totally redesigned, but the page lists it because it still has a logo and a copyright notice?
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Jun 25, 2021 21:29
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related, this is what the visual basic editor looks like in office for mac
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Jun 25, 2021 21:29
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big app teams always seem to have some rationalization for why they can’t just use standard widgets and absolutely must reimplement a ton of poo poo from scratch i assume nobody wants to spend design time on the mac vb editor so the easiest solution is to figure out how to exactly duplicate the windows ui
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Jun 25, 2021 21:38
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Chalks posted:the 3.1 icons in a dll is a bit of a cop out. how about the odbc excel file data source "select workbook" dialog instead: *slaps codebase* you're gonna get a lot of mileage out of these icons
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Jun 25, 2021 21:45
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rjmccall posted:big app teams always seem to have some rationalization for why they can’t just use standard widgets and absolutely must reimplement a ton of poo poo from scratch if you dig deep enough, theres a win32.dll in there im sure
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Jun 25, 2021 21:52
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yeah, it's gotta be some wholesale compatibility layer. nobody's gonna spend the time to lovingly create windows classic. runs like poo poo too.
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Jun 25, 2021 22:39
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this fucker is a perennial not least because I think it's still the only windows open file dialog available by default in xaml?
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Jun 26, 2021 01:41
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josh04 posted:this fucker is a perennial i think it's difficult to use anything newer and still support windows xp notepad++ just recently dropped xp support and that was one of the reasons given, anyway
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Jun 26, 2021 04:01
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rjmccall posted:big app teams always seem to have some rationalization for why they can’t just use standard widgets and absolutely must reimplement a ton of poo poo from scratch instead of factoring out the windows api dependencies spread throughout the office code base they just ported the relevant portions of windows over. updates in windows are now and have perpetually been slowly migrated over to office for mac.
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don’t worry there will be a new redesigned control panel but to get to the actual useful settings youll have to dig up the ol vista style one set to classic icons
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Jun 26, 2021 09:56
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josh04 posted:this fucker is a perennial god dont u love saving a new excel sheet and it brings up the useless but new-looking “recents” and when you click “browse” the computer chugs for 3 seconds and gives you the same one you’ve seen since you were a child
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Jun 26, 2021 17:54
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LibCrusher posted:god dont u love saving a new excel sheet and it brings up the useless but new-looking “recents” and when you click “browse” the computer chugs for 3 seconds and gives you the same one you’ve seen since you were a child yeah, after all of these other examples which i mostly think are kind of quaint, *that* is pure dumb annoyance
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Jun 26, 2021 18:01
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LibCrusher posted:god dont u love saving a new excel sheet and it brings up the useless but new-looking “recents” and when you click “browse” the computer chugs for 3 seconds and gives you the same one you’ve seen since you were a child "what do you mean you don't want to save it to onedrive? fine."
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Jun 27, 2021 00:51
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onenote for mac still doesn’t support local notebooks. you save your notes to onedrive or you go gently caress yourself
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Jun 27, 2021 01:38
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my ex would save all her stuff to one notes on one drive then one time it got corrupted mid upload and she lost all of it, hundreds of pages ms tech support basically told her they can't do anything lmbo
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:yeah, after all of these other examples which i mostly think are kind of quaint, *that* is pure dumb annoyance press save --> recents --> and then it goes to the full page thing where you press browse to finally bring up the old school dialog that you wanted in the first place congratulations microsoft for re-implementing windows explorer, but worse
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Jun 27, 2021 03:36
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gently caress office 365 and the integration with onedrive. trying to work on a document with multiple people? well your folder structure that we've trained you to use for the last 30 years is done with, now you have to manually janitor each and every document, and nobody knows where anything is, and trying to create new documents just creates a big web of files with no central repository
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Wild EEPROM posted:trying to create new documents just creates a big web of files with no central repository what if i told you that central repository was sharepoint 
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Jun 27, 2021 06:06
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Private Speech posted:why would anyone get the surface laptop 4? yeah idk why people buy non-apple laptops either
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Jun 27, 2021 14:47
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potential newjob gives you the option between whatever the top spec lenovo is or a macbook pro. what a choice!
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Jun 27, 2021 14:53
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what i the macbook pro has a buttery keyboard you know, the one where etters stop working
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r u ready to WALK posted:what i the macbook pro has a buttery keyboard ow about the failureeeee mode where sme buttns stp wrking but sme dubler tripleeeeeeee count
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