Post #383,139
11/4/13 4:21:47 AM
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It's balls, isn't it?
A Surface Pro could replace my work laptop.
An iPad can't.
Irrespective of the technical merits of the products concerned, this at least shows they are not equivalent.
I'm mildly surprised that CNet still exists, tbh. There are better sources for tech news.
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Post #383,167
11/5/13 1:46:17 AM
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The inertia is huge.
While I know, intellectually, that C-Net is pretty much crap nowadays, it still lingers in brain-stem memory as one of the foremost tech news places on the net. Benefits of being among the first tech news sites back when the Web was new (to me); perhaps even going back as far as the late eighties, to dead-tree _PC Magazine_ of yore.
Not to worry, though: Soon there won't be too many of us dinosaurs who remember when John C. Dvorak was actually good.
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Christian R. Conrad
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(Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
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Post #383,168
11/5/13 2:11:28 AM
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Wait, what?
...when John C. Dvorak was actually good
[citation motherfucking needed]
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Post #383,169
11/5/13 3:18:27 AM
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You know...
Back when he had his Mongo Gateway Computers and those awesome Matrox VESA-LB Video cards!
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greg@gregfolkert.net
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Post #383,170
11/5/13 3:30:36 AM
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PeeWee doesn't remember that; he was in shorts then.
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Post #383,176
11/5/13 9:54:55 AM
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Yeah JCD actually...
*DID* real research, rather than opine on everything and expect everyone to believe him because he *USED* to do research... 20 some years ago.
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greg@gregfolkert.net
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Post #383,174
11/5/13 8:33:35 AM
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Isn't that their point?
They're saying the surface can replace a tablet and a laptop. You're agreeing it can replace your laptop but an iPad can't.
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Drew
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Post #383,175
11/5/13 9:06:07 AM
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What's the big deal?
iPads have had a Bluetooth connected Apple keyboard available from day 1. My wife got one after initially thinking the virtual keyboard would be a pain. Guess what? She's much more a consumer and not creator of data and never uses that keyboard.
Alex
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Post #383,240
11/6/13 4:49:05 AM
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Naah, it's the opposite.
Seems what Peter is saying is something like, "Apple might have had some vision of how iPads would be enough, but MS actually 'delivers the goods' to make it work in practice" -- the exact opposite of what the C-Net headline says.
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Christian R. Conrad
Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi
(Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
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Post #383,242
11/6/13 5:28:33 AM
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Ding!
You may now have a biscuit.
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Post #383,243
11/6/13 5:55:49 AM
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So gimme one!
Just had lunch; a biscuit would go very nicely with my coffee.
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Christian R. Conrad
Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi
(Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
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Post #383,254
11/6/13 8:23:13 AM
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Doh! Yeah, headline is 180° from article
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Drew
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Post #383,259
11/6/13 9:54:22 AM
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here ya go
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Post #383,261
11/6/13 10:02:15 AM
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Is it just me?
Or does that make a really yummy breakfast look really bad?
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Drew
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Post #383,265
11/6/13 11:07:16 AM
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here, try some
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