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« Reply #14000 on: January 14, 2013, 05:09:30 AM » |
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My wife is planning on getting a Surface Pro when/if it comes out here in Denmark. She originally wanted an iPad, but the lack of support for Flash and Silverlight meant a bunch of the sites she was primarily going to use it for wouldn't work -- and she didn't like how restricted everything felt (she's got an iPad at work now and hasn't really used it in the couple of weeks she's had it home with her). Also, when we've been out traveling, I've had my trust old 9" EeePC with me, and she's wanted her own highly portable and fully functional PC as well for a while. The Surface Pro seems to be a perfect fit...
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« Reply #14001 on: January 14, 2013, 07:25:33 AM » |
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I played around with the Surface at a Future Shop. It was .. ok, I guess. One thing I didn't like was how heavy it was. I couldn't imagine holding the thing up and using it as a tablet for very long.
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« Reply #14002 on: January 14, 2013, 08:44:23 AM » |
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Hmmm... Yeah, it seems the Pro weighs a bit more than the RT...
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« Reply #14003 on: January 14, 2013, 09:07:41 AM » |
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In terms of power, the pro is one hell of a tablet, and running windows is pretty sweet. But I can't imagine using a touchscreen to do things that I would want to use a windows computer for (such as coding). I guess you could just attach the keyboard, but then how is it different from my laptop?
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« Reply #14004 on: January 14, 2013, 12:32:00 PM » |
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I think the idea is that you use it as a tablet with the Metro interface and as a laptop with keyboard and the full Windows desktop?
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« Reply #14005 on: January 14, 2013, 06:32:36 PM » |
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^ not really. desktop, laptops, and tablets alike are forced to use metro ui a lot unless you mess with settings.
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« Reply #14006 on: January 14, 2013, 06:57:15 PM » |
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^ not really. desktop, laptops, and tablets alike are forced to use metro ui a lot unless you mess with settings.
by mess with settings you mean press windows + d. the only thing forced is that it boots to metro its forced on windows rt, such as the surface rt. surface pro uses regular windows source: im da only oen using a windums 8 on tihs forum |
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« Reply #14007 on: January 14, 2013, 07:03:17 PM » |
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well I mean it's not like the new desktop is what anyone is used to.
I use my start button a lot.
but yeah. you're forced to at least look at metro ui. unless you want to mess with the registry.
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« Reply #14008 on: January 14, 2013, 07:05:51 PM » |
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It's possible to make Windows 8 behave mostly like Windows 7 with a lot of hacks and 3rd party software, but at that point, you might as well just be running Windows 7.
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« Reply #14009 on: January 14, 2013, 07:12:03 PM » |
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im happy because im working on gam. |
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« Reply #14010 on: January 14, 2013, 07:14:58 PM » |
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well I mean it's not like your desktop is what anyone is used to. its exactly what im used to lol. all ive been using is the shortcuts in the bar since vista |
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« Reply #14011 on: January 14, 2013, 07:26:10 PM » |
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i'm happy because i'm painting.
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« Reply #14013 on: January 14, 2013, 10:02:29 PM » |
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i'm happy because i'm painting.
happy little trees? |
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« Reply #14014 on: January 15, 2013, 10:17:48 PM » |
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« Reply #14015 on: January 15, 2013, 10:53:50 PM » |
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ok i beat ur dum gam
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« Reply #14016 on: January 15, 2013, 11:18:17 PM » |
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« Reply #14017 on: January 15, 2013, 11:39:49 PM » |
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wat the thing u use called
never midn i find it
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« Reply #14018 on: January 15, 2013, 11:47:44 PM » |
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« Reply #14019 on: January 15, 2013, 11:56:12 PM » |
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missing old visual sutdio dll dum
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