**** Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Thread ****
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No need for sarcasm, although the 'clearly broke' part does give me a smidge of confidence that they'll see it that way and I can just chuck it back at them for a refund. We'll see.
The brightness seems to be unable to settle at the lowest setting, goes up and down by a very small amount. By a bit of searching, I'm not the only one, same with the popping.
exciting, and looks good, yay for headphone jack almost being in the correct place on the bottom side, however as most people are right handed it should be on the left side so it doesn't interfere with mouse usage.
i fear though that these will be priced to expensive and far to close to m or even full i5 tablet, but time will tell. I hope not as I want one or something very similar. combine that with a gaming laptop and I would be sorted.
edit - ok perhaps not that one, wtf teh kickstand is built into the keyboard. insane in this day and age. also as it would almost exclusively be media consumption, 16:9 display would be nice from one of the oems.
i fear though that these will be priced to expensive and far to close to m or even full i5 tablet, but time will tell. I hope not as I want one or something very similar. combine that with a gaming laptop and I would be sorted.
edit - ok perhaps not that one, wtf teh kickstand is built into the keyboard. insane in this day and age. also as it would almost exclusively be media consumption, 16:9 display would be nice from one of the oems.
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Would be interesting to see what the full on reviews will be like, and how well the x86 emulation works. If it still offers good performance, hopefully compared to Atom versions (unless this ends up with a premium price), then maybe this will finally become what Microsoft hoped Windows 8 ARM could've been?
Yeah it does look a bit strange having the kickstand part of the keyboard. I could understand them trying to be different, but they could've maybe had the stand and keyboard as two seperate parts instead if they didn't want to copy the Surface.
Yeah it does look a bit strange having the kickstand part of the keyboard. I could understand them trying to be different, but they could've maybe had the stand and keyboard as two seperate parts instead if they didn't want to copy the Surface.
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Its not just power intel need to add, arm include WiFi, LTE, Bluetooth etc on the chip. Making it smaller, cheaper and more power effecient.
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There's nothing cheap about the ARM Windows tablets I'm seeing.
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Also, the ARM Windows 10 things all seem to be Windows 10 S, so they will go the same way as Windows RT.
Microsoft should really make the Surface 2 update to Windows 10 S.
Microsoft should really make the Surface 2 update to Windows 10 S.
Nope it's upgradable to full windows.
And cost to manufacture/cost to sonsumers. If you had read then you would find I said "i fear though that these will be priced to expensive and far to close to m or even full i5 tablet"
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Yes just like any windows s. Goto store select windows 10 pay ~70 or what ever the price is these days and that's it. Or use your own license code, of which I have plenty.
I found the biggest issue with RT was the lack of flash on websites/or the lack of apps depending how you looked at it. Surface 2 is still the best media consumption tablet I've had. Android and even the full windows tablets I've had just haven't been the same.
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Why are they releasing ARM tablets with Windows 10 S? It's just limited.
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The flash on websites was easy to fix.
The app situation wasn't
I find my Surface 2 to be an acceptable portable media consumption device however.
Because it's cheaper for the OEMs.
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Given for the same price you can get much higher powered full Windows devices I fail to the justification.
I haven't suddenly seen an influx (Or any?) of budget Windows 10 S devices either.
There's no prices yet.
But you don't see company profits as justifiable? Odd notion.
OEMs have never done well at marketing or producing tablets.
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No doubt that Windows 10 S is better than RT.
But S is limited. I imagine the same people that are happy to talk up S are the same people who swore RT wouldn't fail (Glaucus for example)