What Are You Doing Right Now
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
At Enterprise picking up a minivan.
I was considering renting a minivan for the weekend for visiting guests, but they want like $175 a day. For a minivan. Insane.
I just got back from Ireland, the small SUV (they had no mini vans) was $380 + 180 in VAT for two days... OMG!
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@zuphzuph said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen I told my boss they're a hardware nightmare. But, the execs want something lighter than the M4800s we've been getting...
Are they still? Paul Thurrott has been reporting that MS has resolved most if not all of the problems with the Surface pro 4 and the Surface Book.
The Surface Pro 3 currently is having a battery problem, not sure if it's the batteries themselves or a software issue, thought MS has been quoted as saying they think they can fix it in software.
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When we evaluated the SP2, the brand new demo was DOA. I just don't trust it.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The Surface Pro 3 currently is having a battery problem, not sure if it's the batteries themselves or a software issue, thought MS has been quoted as saying they think they can fix it in software.
One problem about the Surface Pro is that they glued that damn thing like an iPad / Android tablet. iFixit got some reviews about this. Hard to replace or upgrade parts.
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@Dashrender I'm not sure if they are/aren't gonna be checking them out for myself first hand but I'll post my experiences.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The Surface Pro 3 currently is having a battery problem, not sure if it's the batteries themselves or a software issue, thought MS has been quoted as saying they think they can fix it in software.
One problem about the Surface Pro is that they glued that damn thing like an iPad / Android tablet. iFixit got some reviews about this. Hard to replace or upgrade parts.
I'm sorry, was there a question there?
The Surface line, like most phones today, were not meant to be user serviceable. If that's a requirement, then you need to look else where. But for most people, they would never consider taking apart their huge easy to work on desktop computer, let alone a $900 Surface device.
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@Dashrender No question, just a statement. Would love to buy them, but like you said, they are not serviceable at all. Would just have been nice if you could upgrade RAM or the SSD maybe without losing your warranty.
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My wife's school is replacing some large percentage of the teacher's laptops with Surface Pro 4's in 2 weeks. I hope she brings it home and lets me play with it.
We have an Surface Pro 3 here in my office. It seems to get the job done where needed. The crappy thing is that I need a unit that can last 9+ hours on battery while being used at full or near full backlight while on wifi and running a super crappy written web app.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
My wife's school is replacing some large percentage of the teacher's laptops with Surface Pro 4's in 2 weeks. I hope she brings it home and lets me play with it.
So sorry for her.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We have an Surface Pro 3 here in my office. It seems to get the job done where needed. The crappy thing is that I need a unit that can last 9+ hours on battery while being used at full or near full backlight while on wifi and running a super crappy written web app.
So it's a really expensive flash light?
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Getting in the car to drive to Dallas. Storage unit has been emptied.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender No question, just a statement. Would love to buy them, but like you say, they are not serviceable at all. Would just have been nice if you could upgrade RAM or the SSD maybe without losing your warranty.
Having that ability would require the unit to be considerably larger. Consider the Samsung S5 vs the S6. The S6 is several millimeters thinner because they didn't have to put in extra plastic layers to protect the motherboard from the user when they were swapping batteries.
It's all give and take. Now that said.. the fact that the higher memory options are so much more ridiculously priced versus what those extra resources actually cost - well that's an Apple pricing model for ya (I'm sure Apple didn't invent it either). You want premium specs.. well golly gee, you're going to pay us for them.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
My wife's school is replacing some large percentage of the teacher's laptops with Surface Pro 4's in 2 weeks. I hope she brings it home and lets me play with it.
We have an Surface Pro 3 here in my office. It seems to get the job done where needed. The crappy thing is that I need a unit that can last 9+ hours on battery while being used at full or near full backlight while on wifi and running a super crappy written web app.
The 3's are a bit better than the 4's in my opinion.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender No question, just a statement. Would love to buy them, but like you say, they are not serviceable at all. Would just have been nice if you could upgrade RAM or the SSD maybe without losing your warranty.
Having that ability would require the unit to be considerably larger. Consider the Samsung S5 vs the S6. The S6 is several millimeters thinner because they didn't have to put in extra plastic layers to protect the motherboard from the user when they were swapping batteries.
It's all give and take. Now that said.. the fact that the higher memory options are so much more ridiculously priced versus what those extra resources actually cost - well that's an Apple pricing model for ya (I'm sure Apple didn't invent it either). You want premium specs.. well golly gee, you're going to pay us for them.
Sure, but why do we need ultra-fancy, super-thin devices? We're not users of half-eaten fruits. Make them an idea thicker, that's ok
About premium prices: The Surface Pro already is a premium product. I can get a very decent notebook for the price. -
I have an IPadPro that far out performs the Surfaces (slightly less in price than the surface too). But a good laptop will also out perform it.
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@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
My wife's school is replacing some large percentage of the teacher's laptops with Surface Pro 4's in 2 weeks. I hope she brings it home and lets me play with it.
We have an Surface Pro 3 here in my office. It seems to get the job done where needed. The crappy thing is that I need a unit that can last 9+ hours on battery while being used at full or near full backlight while on wifi and running a super crappy written web app.
The 3's are a bit better than the 4's in my opinion.
In what way?
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@Minion-Queen I like apple products. But I'm in Microsoft land and finding ways to do everything we do here on one would be far too much stress than it's worth to me.
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Just got a text from a lovely lady asking why she didn't hear from me on Sunday.... oops. Missing a hot date is actually the biggest consequence of dunking your phone in the pool and losing 2 weeks worth of texts and calendar events.... damn. I need to keep an analog calendar too I guess.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender No question, just a statement. Would love to buy them, but like you say, they are not serviceable at all. Would just have been nice if you could upgrade RAM or the SSD maybe without losing your warranty.
Having that ability would require the unit to be considerably larger. Consider the Samsung S5 vs the S6. The S6 is several millimeters thinner because they didn't have to put in extra plastic layers to protect the motherboard from the user when they were swapping batteries.
It's all give and take. Now that said.. the fact that the higher memory options are so much more ridiculously priced versus what those extra resources actually cost - well that's an Apple pricing model for ya (I'm sure Apple didn't invent it either). You want premium specs.. well golly gee, you're going to pay us for them.
Sure, but why do we need ultra-fancy, super-thin devices? We're not users of half-eaten fruits. Make them an idea thicker, that's ok
About premium prices: The Surface Pro already is a premium product. I can get a very decent notebook for the price.Well - again I reach out for Scott's previous comments - what is this device suppose to solve? The Surface devices are cool for about 10 seconds.. but when real work is to be done, in normal environments, a laptop is often much better suited. So personally, the SPs are a niche option to begin with.
How many of your ultrabook laptops are really upgrade able? I'm thinking not many. To get the lightness and thin-ness they need to get rid of most of the ports used for upgrading..
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just got a text from a lovely lady asking why she didn't hear from me on Sunday.... oops. Missing a hot date is actually the biggest consequence of dunking your phone in the pool and losing 2 weeks worth of texts and calendar events.... damn. I need to keep an analog calendar too I guess.
Why do you need an analog calendar? why not a cloud synced one?
