What Are You Doing Right Now
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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?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@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?
I have that, but it apparently hadn't synced for a while when the phone got wet. So I lost some stuff. I won't pay for any more Verizon cloud storage, i just need to delete some stuff.
I think my sync schedule got boned by the last Android update on that phone.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@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?
Hardware is more stable more than anything
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Had to put my logging on a different network. I'm averaging 4-8,000 messages per hour. Identity Management really hammers the logs, and I'm not really doing anything with it.
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Drinking a local IPA and snacking on some braised pork belly w/ black beans and a fried egg on top.
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@RojoLoco Could I be any more jelly right now?
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Drinking a local IPA and snacking on some braised pork belly w/ black beans and a fried egg on top.
LMF....
I'm hungry and still trying to decide on what I want for dinner.....
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Drinking a local IPA and snacking on some braised pork belly w/ black beans and a fried egg on top.
IPA name?
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Drinking a local IPA and snacking on some braised pork belly w/ black beans and a fried egg on top.
IPA name?
The place where I was is a brewpub, so it's their own.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Drinking a local IPA and snacking on some braised pork belly w/ black beans and a fried egg on top.
IPA name?
The place where I was is a brewpub, so it's their own.
What is the name of em, do they bottle?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Drinking a local IPA and snacking on some braised pork belly w/ black beans and a fried egg on top.
IPA name?
The place where I was is a brewpub, so it's their own.
What is the name of em, do they bottle?
5 Seasons. They can't bottle because they are a restaurant also (stupid GA laws).
