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Which of these are bad (mutliple choice) This poll is closed. |
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| surface |
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7 | 3.45% |
| surface 2 |
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8 | 3.94% |
| surface 3 |
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8 | 3.94% |
| surface go |
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8 | 3.94% |
| surface go 2 |
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8 | 3.94% |
| surface go 3 |
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8 | 3.94% |
| surface pro |
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8 | 3.94% |
| surface pro 2 |
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10 | 4.93% |
| surface pro 3 |
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8 | 3.94% |
| surface pro 4 |
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8 | 3.94% |
| surface pro (2017) |
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8 | 3.94% |
| surface pro 6 |
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9 | 4.43% |
| surface pro 7 |
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8 | 3.94% |
| surface pro 7+ |
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8 | 3.94% |
| surface pro 8 |
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8 | 3.94% |
| surface pro X |
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8 | 3.94% |
| surface book |
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8 | 3.94% |
| surface book 2 |
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9 | 4.43% |
| surface book 3 |
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8 | 3.94% |
| surface laptop |
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8 | 3.94% |
| surface laptop 2 |
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8 | 3.94% |
| surface laptop 3 |
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8 | 3.94% |
| surface laptop 4 |
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8 | 3.94% |
| surface studio |
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8 | 3.94% |
| surface studio 2 |
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8 | 3.94% |
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always lol at this
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Jul 19, 2022 23:46
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Touch is the optimal input paradigm in a very, very narrow set of situations. The sooner Microsoft figures that out, the sooner they might actually be able to make software that doesn't suck again.
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Jul 20, 2022 00:25
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:Touch is the optimal input paradigm in a very, very narrow set of situations. The sooner Microsoft figures that out, the sooner they might actually be able to make software that doesn't suck again. that's not possible. nobody makes good software any more. everything's getting worse honk honk :^)
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Jul 20, 2022 07:53
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A friend of mine was very happy with his Surface Pro, one of the earlier gens. It seemed fine for what it was. It's pretty nice to have touch even on Windows sometimes but I think the slate form factor is a very niche thing. I bought my mom a Chinese knockoff since she does online math tutoring and it's perfect for her to draw diagrams and formulas on the whiteboard for example. But another friend uses an ipad pro for navigation when flying and it's good for that. He also uses it as a travel computer and for that he has to use a separate keyboard and a nice chonky case (because the apple keyboard is  ) and it ends up being more awkward and weighing more than my X1.The Yoga is imo a superior form factor for most people. You can use it as a perfectly normal computer 90% of the time, and if you're watching a movie in the airplane you can use the tent mode, or fold it completely to read a book or something.
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Jul 20, 2022 10:52
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remember when microsoft paid the NFL $400 million to be the exclusive tablet partner and announcers kept calling them "ipad like devices"
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Jul 20, 2022 15:41
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Smythe posted:the surface studio ad owned
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Jul 20, 2022 15:50
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i played with the original surface prototype that was a giant table you could touch and move poo poo around on at CES. i got it to crash by trying to resize multiple videos at once while playing using my hands and elbows and then asked if it ran linux i was asked to leave the microsoft display
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Jul 20, 2022 15:51
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^^^ Good job, you really showed 'em! The Surface Go line always seemed like a terrible value, the tablet as well as the new laptop. From the Ars review: quote:Behave as though the actual starting price is $700, the amount it costs to get the configuration with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. This is still closer to "budget" than "high-end" as ultrabooks go, but the list of omissions, shortcomings, and odd decisions does get harder to overlook as you spend more money. The generation-old processor. The un-backlit keyboard. The tiny port selection. A touchscreen that is neither particularly high-resolution nor very colorful. A 128GB SSD that will feel cramped for many people, and a 256GB option that (1) isn't all that much bigger and (2) adds another $100 to the price. For $400, I recently bought a Chuwi Minibook X.
The Chuwi has some dumb poo poo too like the hole-punch camera, but, well, it's $400 lol.
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Jul 20, 2022 17:46
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:i played with the original surface prototype that was a giant table you could touch and move poo poo around on at CES. another day volunteering at the ces microsoft booth. everyone keeps asking me if they can gently caress the surface.
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Jul 20, 2022 18:15
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nvrgrls posted:another day volunteering at the ces microsoft booth. everyone keeps asking me if they can gently caress the surface. You can gently caress the surface. The surface of my dick!!
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Jul 20, 2022 18:26
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mobby_6kl posted:You can gently caress the surface. The surface of my dick!! golden joke
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Jul 20, 2022 21:27
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I don't think I've ever used a surface. I really liked the ratty little cheapshit windows 8 atom tablets when they were around, though they were $150 and I set my expectations accordingly. $1000 for the same thing with an i5 in it doesn't sound like a good time. the fabric-covered laptops were a pretty funny idea
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Jul 21, 2022 01:30
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this is after just 1 intense gaming/masturbation session
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Jul 21, 2022 02:05
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quote:Hi, I bought my Surface laptop 2 in July 2019, my carpet has been dirty since then, could anyone please help me with this in detail and step by step
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Jul 21, 2022 02:09
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suck my surface, the surface of my greasy alcantara laptop!
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Jul 21, 2022 02:32
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i love a dirty carpet 
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Jul 21, 2022 08:47
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you must have indoor pets as well
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Jul 21, 2022 10:22
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Clark Nova posted:I don't think I've ever used a surface. I really liked the ratty little cheapshit windows 8 atom tablets when they were around, though they were $150 and I set my expectations accordingly. $1000 for the same thing with an i5 in it doesn't sound like a good time. I unironically loved the netbook fad.
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Jul 21, 2022 17:03
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I almost bought a netbook on the weekend. but I decided to spend the money on clothes instead
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Jul 21, 2022 17:18
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nvrgrls posted:I unironically loved the netbook fad. Back then I was waiting for exactly the right one, with a decent screen and keyboard. As a result I almost bought the HP Mini one but don't remember why I didn't get it, I guess the fad was over at that point. Silver Alicorn posted:I almost bought a netbook on the weekend. but I decided to spend the money on clothes instead Boo!
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Jul 21, 2022 17:22
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big diff b/w furface tablet and the surface laptop. work gave me a surface 2 tablet, surface 3 laptop, and now a surface 4 laptop. the carpet was a mistake. the 4 laptop is pretty nice, but touch is useless if you can’t do a full 360 with the screen. I even got the surface pen but it’s super awk to use it on a normal laptop screen. other than that the laptop is needs suiting?
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Jul 21, 2022 18:06
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i have an older surface that a job let me keep and, while it works, it has cooling problems that make the wifi controller flake out hard until a reboot lol at least for a little while it was useful as a plex host while wired up to external storage. now it's what i use if i want to play old dos games on a relatively low-power device.
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Jul 21, 2022 18:37
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I have a plywood surface at work to support my desktop computer peripherals, its very needs suiting
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Jul 21, 2022 18:39
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I have a desk
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Jul 21, 2022 18:42
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Silver Alicorn posted:I have a desk Does it support multi-touch?
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Jul 21, 2022 18:46
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typically that’s how desks work yes
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Jul 21, 2022 19:07
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I have a surface book 2 and it used to be quite good back when CPU and GPU performance was stagnant it's still okay now and looks good, but they didn't really keep up with performance once the pace of development sped up a bit it's still good as a non-gaming laptop and can be enjoyable to use as a tablet
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Jul 21, 2022 22:15
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mobby_6kl posted:Me too! Which is why I'm re-living it now with the Minibook X. didnt know about the minibook. can you run linux on it and not have it be a clownshow?
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Jul 21, 2022 22:20
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Tankakern posted:didnt know about the minibook. can you run linux on it and not have it be a clownshow? this is an oxymoron
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Jul 22, 2022 02:01
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shoo
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Jul 22, 2022 06:10
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Tankakern posted:didnt know about the minibook. can you run linux on it and not have it be a clownshow? of course not; its linux
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Jul 22, 2022 11:31
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Tankakern posted:didnt know about the minibook. can you run linux on it and not have it be a clownshow? I haven't tried it before because I'm not a CJ but just for you, I got it to boot into the latest Kali linux version. Wifi, sound, touchscreen and stylus all work. For certain definitions of "work", at least, it recognizes touch and stylus movement but only as a mouse cursor, so I can't for example scroll a browser window with it. Also the screen is rotated 90 degrees since it's from a tablet, but I'm sure you could rotate it by recompiling the kernel.
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Jul 22, 2022 14:04
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mobby_6kl posted:I haven't tried it before because I'm not a CJ but just for you, I got it to boot into the latest Kali linux version. Wifi, sound, touchscreen and stylus all work. For certain definitions of "work", at least, it recognizes touch and stylus movement but only as a mouse cursor, so I can't for example scroll a browser window with it. Also the screen is rotated 90 degrees since it's from a tablet, but I'm sure you could rotate it by recompiling the kernel. lol @ kali linux thanks for checking! i had to rotate the screen myself when i had a ghd pocket, but fedora got built-in support for it pretty quick
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Jul 22, 2022 14:32
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Tankakern posted:lol @ kali linux BTW before you decide to get it, another goon apparently bought or used one at least and wasn't so happy: Xander77 posted:I feel like this is pretty garbage. I haven't had any serious issues with mine and it lasts more than an hour but YMMV. I think as long as you keep in mind that it's a modern netbook, it's fine. poo poo, it costs less than the EEE PC 900 did.
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Jul 22, 2022 14:56
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mobby_6kl posted:Me too! Which is why I'm re-living it now with the Minibook X. Interesting but not $500 interesting for me anyway. quote:
it was probably that the touchpads were all literally unusuable iirc
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Jul 22, 2022 19:04
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 no idea what kind of surface this is but I like the message
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Jul 22, 2022 19:08
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nvrgrls posted:Interesting but not $500 interesting for me anyway. The touchpad might be it, didn't they also have the buttons in the left/right sides?
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Jul 22, 2022 19:21
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Clark Nova posted:I don't think I've ever used a surface. I really liked the ratty little cheapshit windows 8 atom tablets when they were around, though they were $150 and I set my expectations accordingly. $1000 for the same thing with an i5 in it doesn't sound like a good time. i don't use it for anything anymore, but the dell one i have still has a decent screen and it's a bit taller than an ipad mini and thinner than amazon fire tablets just bafflingly fine hardware for the price, shame about the win 8 i had to wipe a half dozen times to fix regular broken updates. win 10 (free as it is) has never had a problem nvrgrls posted:I unironically loved the netbook fad. ditto. i stuck my venue 8 pro into an ipad mini keyboard case and it was so close in size. if it had a trackpad it'd have been perfect i guess i still have a picture of when i tried it for the first time lol 
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Jul 22, 2022 23:02
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someone just posted this on hn https://www.microcenter.com/product/649971/evolve-iii-maestro-e-book-116-laptop-computer-dark-grey
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Jul 23, 2022 03:50
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i was at microcenter the other day and they have them out front labeled as “laptops for education” in a bin by the checkout
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