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Would it be good enough to replace a laptop? Seems like it, no performance issues right?
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Would it be good enough to replace a laptop? Seems like it, no performance issues right?
its a win 8 pro tablet , depending on what your going to run will tell you if there are performance issues. Its only an atom cpu so in more demanding games you will have issues , in anything that really requires cpu power like photo shop or excel you will run into performance issues.
If you just want to surf the web , play metro games and watch videos you should be good.
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Hmm, really considering it now.
lastflowers
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I want skulls of the shogun injected right into my veins.
I still can't believe that you're going to go down this road yet again. Just get a laptop
When you say this device, are you talking about the Surface? It does have a full size USB port. If you mean micro-HDMI port, then yes, that's what it has but it doesn't come with a cable.
Look what do you want to do with the device ?
Surface RT / RT tablets = web surfing , metro games , long battery life
Atom Pro tablets = web surfing , metro games , slightly less battery life but weak at traditional pc programs
Ivy bridge tablets = all of the above but strong at traditional pc programs and much less battery life.
Then you move into laptop space and you get ivy bridge with slightly better battery life while getting bigger screens and larger hardrives and the like .
You need to choose what you want to do and then you have to make a choice. Do you want to try and have 1 device do what you need to do , or are you okay with getting say a lower end laptop at $500 or $600 and getting an nexus 7 or ipad mini for some of your other tasks.
Not a single device is going to do everything .
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It's not all black and white like that though. For example, an Atom tablet should be good enough for me, but then there's problems like docking station disconnects and no SD card slots. Trying to find the best balance.
I mean the Acer W510.
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" Surface RT / RT tablets = web surfing , metro games , long battery life
Atom Pro tablets = web surfing , metro games , slightly less battery life but weak at traditional pc programs"
Surface doesn't have better battery life compared to atom tabs, that's mostly due to tegra3 being terrible at doing anything. It might be different on the S4.
Steelyuhas
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My father got a Surface yesterday and rubbed it in my face with a bunch of pictures of it. I is jelly
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Ok, can someone check this for me again? It'll be really appreciated and I'll stop spamming the thread after this post.
www.whfreeman.com/thelifewire9e
Just click on Animated Tutorials on the right and tell me if any of them work when the site is added on the whitelist. I'm gonna be using that site next semester and I'd like if the RT ran it.
www.whfreeman.com/thelifewire9e
Just click on Animated Tutorials on the right and tell me if any of them work when the site is added on the whitelist. I'm gonna be using that site next semester and I'd like if the RT ran it.
Xplatformer
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A pretty important omission. It's literally why the Surface RT is $500 instead of $425 or less.
lastflowers
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I don't think it works, but I only messed around for two or three minutes while at work.
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Using a normal PC or Surface?
doesn't seem to work.
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fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
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...what
That's damn weird.
That's damn weird.
I can get to animated tutorials . I then do browse by chapter and it pops up. I can pick any of them like say 1.1 scientific method. If I click on 1.1 it changes the page but there is nothing there.
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I guess it'd be better to ask the Windows 8 thread then. Thanks anyway.
I tried it on my surface RT and my desktop with windows 8 pro in both metro browser and ie 10. Dunno what to tell ya. Sure you don't have to be logged in to see the content ?
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Yeah, that's not the portal I log into. Anyone can view that.
Jzero
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Let me have the prototype pleaseWoooooo finally got my retail Surface instead of the late prototype I've been using for months. Yay
Keeps on wishing
Eel O'Brian
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What kinds of .cbr/.cbz comic readers are available on the RT app store?
Xplatformer
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I saw a Windows RT (not Surface) unit at Best Buy today when I went in to see if they had the Surface yet.
That interface and the preview version of Office won me over. No other tablet is going to work for me (well...I'll keep my original Fire too) moving forward. It was a thing of beauty.
That interface and the preview version of Office won me over. No other tablet is going to work for me (well...I'll keep my original Fire too) moving forward. It was a thing of beauty.
Eel O'Brian
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No, that just uses a proprietary format. You can't load your own files on it. I mainly read 30s-60s comics, stuff in the public domain.
http://www.greatwindowsapps.com/browse/dev/lindybeat
Mangajolt works ace for me.
There is also CBReader but can't find links.
Anyone have this happen to them on accident yet? It's four rows of live tiles instead of the default three. Happened to me this morning and I like it better. It reverts back once your Surface goes to sleep, but I believe Microsoft knows about this and it could become a feature.
brotkasten
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I'm not using Windows 8 right now, but I know that I was able to add another row of tiles on my desktop. It was a setting somewhere hidden in the charm bar.
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So does the white list work work for any other sites you guys tried out?
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I don't get it either. What else can influence battery life when the specs are so similar?
Eel O'Brian
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Yes, it worked for my plex web app.
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Why did they add such a feature anyway?
It's not really something they meant for people to mess with. They wanted to control what sites that flash would work on for battery life issues I think.
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I see. Decided to just wait for the Pro, in order to have the full Windows experience.
You guys think it's coming out before or around CES or later in January?
You guys think it's coming out before or around CES or later in January?
Xplatformer
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Just search for the apps in the Windows Store.
Under "Details", if you see the word "ARM", then yes.
I searched those comic book reader apps, and it appears they are supported under ARM.
Sure. I just tried it (MangaJolt), it can even read straight from the desktop even without unraring/unzipping the archives.
Only thing I didn't like is how zooming level isn't saved.
brotkasten
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The browser is even better than the one running on the Xbox 360. What more could you want?
Looping a video doesn't give real world battery life...how about doing a test with web surfing or playing games? engadget's battery tests are simply the worst, on every device all they do is loop a video.
They tested Asus Transformer Infinity with 9+ hours, giving it the longest battery of any android tablet, in reality it just about 5 to 6 hours, even worse when playing games...they looped a video.