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Sure, but that's no excuse to charge us $50 to opt out of their jail imo.

I always took hand written notes on my surfaces, and the Surface Laptop makes that impossible since it doesn't have a 180deg hinge, right?

People keep saying "it's free to upgrade until the end of the year" but that's just a few months away. I am worried we're going to live in a future where Windows 10S will be the default so that we either have to pay $50 for every new Micro$0ft/OEM device we buy, or live in their prison. Also I...

Only for free for the rest of this year. And if this is designed for schools isn't $1,000 pretty expensive? Also since it just has 4GB of RAM, I think a lot of adults wont be interested anyway.

Try reinstalling Windows. I really wish I was joking, but running creators update on a fresh install of windows has been great. The new bash on windows features are amazing. Without any modifications, I apt-get install'd emacs, and out of the box it works perfectly along with 24bit colors. And...

It costs a steep $1,000, has just 4GB of RAM and runs a version of Windows where you're only allowed apps from the windows app store? It also doesn't appear to have USB-C or thunderbolt. They say it's for education but you can't draw, write, annotate on it like a SP4 or SB. I am honestly...

I turned it on hoping to get 14986 on my SP4 however it says I am already up to date, doesn't find any new builds...

Here are the steps I do: 1. I boot up the surface and login and am on my desktop 2. I plug in a mini display to hdmi cable which is connected to my monitor 3. random black squares appear on the desktop on the external display 4. the external and internal display both go black 5. everything...

did you try reinstalling windows? Windows is pretty garbage and I find that usually re-installing fixes more grievances I have from a botched install.

does this new firmware for SP4 suck? ever since the december sp3 crisis I'm too afraid to touch these updates although the last several have been good.

I have been asking them to make better battery life since the SP2, and since then battery life has only gotten worse since windows 10. So who the heck knows what they will do. But if they improve battery and slap on tb3 that'd be great.

Visual Studios is definitely a battery killer (as is xcode in osx) but just having them installed shouldn't murder the battery right? Maybe they run some daemon constantly but you can turn it off right? It makes me want to scream how Apple and Microsoft both continue shrinking the batteries in...

Microsoft's website says "up to 9 hours of battery life" the best I ever got was 7:30 hours on windows 8, and never more than 5 hours on windows 10. Has anyone actually gotten 9 hours or does that sound as impossible to you as it does to me? Also you might say: "but they say up to" and that's...

So the surface has been abit nicer since AU. Mostly Bash for Windows has made it at least useful for software development. Still doesn't beat the ipad for web browsing, notes or reading though.

so basically its useless

This is an oldish thread but, I too bought an iPad Pro 228gb 9.7" with the Apple Pencil and I think it's a great little device. The split screen functionality, and especially PiP make iOS much more functional as a portable computer. My Surface still performs many more and complex tasks, but with...

I only get like 5 hours on my i5 and I had an i7 and got about the same actually.

Does that mean my request to create a hackintosh section on the forum will fall on deaf ears? :(

what's your point?

thats ^ actually a great idea in terms of getting vmw for cheap. I use virtualbox now but I'd prefer to run my machines on vmware. I want to run OSX, not sure about doing that on ms virtual pc or whatever they call it now. context: I already have a riMac but for fun I want to see if I can get...