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basroil
zichiOct. 25, 2012 - 04:40PM JST
I can understand your fanaticism, but ignoring the Newton disaster is just beyond stupid. Then you had dozens of prototypes before the iPad, so hardly "day one". In fact, apple had many things missing, from cut and paste to simply being able to access your files normally.
Surface has none of these issues, and in fact nobody says it's worse than even the iPad 2. They simply can't get over the fact it's not a laptop, and have pixel peeping paranoia as well (we'll be seeing dozens of side by side 1600x magnification shots soon enough).
No, that is only the iPad's downfall. THE MICROSOFT SURFACE SUPPORTS MOBILE BROADBAND DONGLES. You can't argue, it's a listed and tested fact. PI is not 3 no matter how much it simplifies calculations.
Windows RT is a standard NT6 based kernel and as such supports generic divers for millions of different devices, and practically all external disks, wireless, and cellular devices work just fine with generic drivers.
basroil
zichiOct. 25, 2012 - 11:53AM JST
Your "favorite" company Softback has plenty of dongles as does DoCoMo. Those CANNOT be used with competitors no matter how you try to spin it.
And in fact, you just shot yourself in the foot saying that competitors also require it. Fact of the matter is that it's cheaper to get something from your cell provider and never have to worry that your device is incompatible (i.e. your iCrap can support either one company or another, and can't switch between them as is the case with Verizon and Att versions). Microsoft was right in avoiding the cellular mess, it lets people get the speed they want when they want it, and never deal with incompatibility.
basroil
zichiOct. 25, 2012 - 02:34AM JST
Most wireless companies have USB based cellular dongles (and mobile hotspots) for FREE (at least in USA where this product launches first). Nothing stops you from using one, and in fact most of the competitors DON'T EVEN HAVE WIRELESS. Of the few that do, they are all far more expensive for 3/4G versions than the Surface.
nath
The King is dead, long live the king.
basroil
zichiOct. 24, 2012 - 10:29PM JST
Odd, I talked about that, not TiO2...
You can read it like this though "there are practically no problems because major companies will upgrade anyway"
zichiOct. 24, 2012 - 11:18PM JST
Interesting applemodo said this about it too:
But you know what? Not a single review focused on the RT as a tablet regardless of the fact that it IS a tablet. Nearly all the reviews end with the same conclusion "it is more natural and useful than any tablet, but it's still not a Windows 8 laptop". It's so good a product that they never bother to put it with the loads of single focus tablets, they all assume it's a laptop and expect everything in a laptop (despite the price difference between it and laptops)
Shinjuku 108
It's amazing how many Apple fanboys are on this site. They actually take the time to show up to these microsoft articles amd vote down pro MS comments and post links to a few negative reviews out of a sea of mostly positives for the Surface for no reason at all.
Then again, I guess I would troll MS related posts too if I was an apple fanboy too delusional to admit I'm getting tired of using the same old boring iOS since summer of 08 in addition to being just another "me too" on the train with an iPhone.
basroil
titaniumdioxideOct. 24, 2012 - 08:29PM JST
Windows 7 alone SOLD 630 million as of Oct 12, and an estimated 400 million other computers run XP, Server 2003, Server 2008, and Vista. That includes a large chunk of macs too, and DOESN'T include pirated software.
http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/40549-windows-7-hits-600-million-sales/ and this article is old, 30 million added since the article.
They have been saying no for six months now. Not their fault you don't listen the first two dozen times. Good thing for you though, a few weeks later the Surface Pro comes out, which runs an i5 processor and will run windows 8 rather than RT, so you can photoshop all you want.
zichiOct. 24, 2012 - 08:45PM JST
So, in other words no drawbacks compare to the competition, and one HUGE bonus, Office RT (and CNET is wrong about "businesses can't use it because of licensing" crap, there's a business license for RT available, and in fact, it's free if you buy the desktop software). It also features device encryption, which is a welcome sight for enterprise use (one reason why companies still use outdated blackberries over everything else)
Notice that ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING applies to Android and iOS devices (including Apps bit, as there's maybe 1000 apps that anyone actually cares about in addition to the 1100 fart apps and 1900 flashlight apps), and they don't have Office RT included (or ever will have).
titaniumdioxide
I thought I can install my old Photoshop CS2 on the windows RT and have a portable photoshop. I was wrong. Anyway Android and IOS have more arrays of apps I can choose.
titaniumdioxide
I don't believe that billions of people uses legitimate copies of windows though. I am extremely doubtful. Probably just few hundred millions uses a licensed copy. Nah!!! Microsoft probably just want to tell the world "Hey we have billions of people who uses our products, 80% comes from pirated copies in China" .
basroil
zichiOct. 24, 2012 - 11:05AM JST
That's like saying that your cellphone is worse than the jumbotron. Different display techologies, and many people admit that the ClearType HD screen used is many times better than the XGA screen on iCrap, as well as functionally equivalent to non-pixel peepers (i.e. everyone in the real world).
The Surface Pro has a ClearType FullHD display, which should give the 2560x1600 retina display on the MBP13 a run for it's money, at a fraction of the power use.
To be perfectly clear from an engineering standpoint, you PHYSICALLY CANNOT tell the difference between full HD and higher at normal viewing distances, and the average person can't tell the difference between HD and Full HD in most cases (it's more visible when you have huge spans of white pixels, not so much video and well designed interfaces like Windows RT/8)
basroil
Hardly news, most major tech sites have already gone hands on with the Surface and call it spectacular.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/18/hands-on-with-microsoft-surface-for-windows-rt/