11-06-2012, 01:49 PM | #91 | |
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But an SD card doesn't need to contain an OS while built-in flash does. |
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11-07-2012, 11:12 AM | #92 | |
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ZDnet has an answer to the Surface vs iOS/Android question:
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It's a productivity tablet. Not a bad place to start. |
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11-08-2012, 09:18 AM | #93 |
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Type cover vs touch cover
After 2 days of comparison:
Most of the times, I'll stick to the touch cover. Very often, I'm using the Surface RT as a "normal" tablet. Then I fold the covers back. Both covers work flawlessly. If you lay the tablet flat on a table and the cover is in front, typing works fine. If you fold the cover back, more than 180° angle, the keys are blocked. Meaning: When folded back, you can't by accident hit any keys. Absolutely fine, just as intended. BUT: I find it a bit awkward, having the tips of my fingers rest on the keys. You still can press them and it just feels a bit "strange". On the touch keyboard, this doesn't matter, as you don't actually press the keys but kind of "hover" over them. So: When traveling and/or only doing "light typing", I'll stick to the touch cover. But I'll take the type cover with me all the time, in the very same sleeve. When switching to "heavy typing", I can exchange the covers then. |
11-10-2012, 04:07 PM | #94 |
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I frequent a website called "Make use of" and on their site they have free cheat sheets you can print out on various topics. One such cheat sheet is a Windows 8 "Touch and Mouse Gestures."
Worth looking into so you can get the most out of the UI. Ralph www.makeuseof.com Last edited by Red Alert; 11-10-2012 at 04:08 PM. Reason: added url |
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11-10-2012, 09:42 PM | #96 | |
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It claims to have 27.15GB free out of 32GB on the device. I've no idea whether it's talking binary gigabytes or decimal, or a mix of the two. |
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I looked at an Ultrabook with W8, but I don't like the SSD. Only 128standard and so expensive to go to 256 which is still a small drive these days.
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11-11-2012, 12:21 PM | #98 |
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Depends on what you're doing with it. If you buy it for web browsing, email and word processing, 128GB should be plenty. If you want to install a few modern games at 20GB apiece, or put your entire movie and music collection on the disk, you'll run out fast.
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11-12-2012, 11:57 AM | #99 |
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Played with a Surface for about 10 minutes this weekend. The lack of apps was the most glaring deficit, but I also found the thin keyboard with no key travel was unwieldy to type on. I didn't get a chance to use the thicker cover. Hardware seemed fairly nice otherwise. However, the dual metro/desktop OS is completely incomprehensible to me. You haven't lived until you've experienced the special hell of trying to use Excel with a touchscreen.
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There are ca. 10 categories. In each category you find ca. 100 to 400 apps. You easily can scroll through those 100 to 400 apps in a minute or so. The tiles are very informative and neatly arranged. But the downside to this is, you can scroll through the apps that fast... |
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11-12-2012, 05:27 PM | #104 | |
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11-12-2012, 06:29 PM | #105 | |
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Lets pass on the games. I don't do games except on rare occasion, I might look at something someone is pressing into my hand. Lets look at one thing. WiFi apps. I have looked at most of the Android Apps for WiFi and tried to use them. I even tried to take a short cut and look at the paid ones trying to find one really good one that would just hook me up with the public WiFi spots without me asking for a password or something. I did like the 2 or 3 that showed me where public wifi spots were relative to my position but the old android settings app did just as well except for that characteristic. My GPS units will give me better locations of restaurants etc, that I can be fairly certain will have a wifi spot. My point is that 100 good apps OR FEWER should suffice except for the games. The other 100 thousand or more is just redundant! |
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