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Angusmatheson

Member Since Aug 2016

5 Posts
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    Apple is building the computer of the future, and I’m buying the Surface Laptop Go of the past
    By angusmatheson, 1 month ago
    14 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Hardware
    angusmatheson Microsoft Hardware 1 month ago 14 Replies
    I think the duo and neo are a mistake
    By angusmatheson, 11 months ago
    22 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Hardware
    angusmatheson Microsoft Hardware 11 months ago 22 Replies
    Does the surface pen seems a little cheap and plastic?
    By angusmatheson, 1 year ago
    2 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Hardware
    angusmatheson Microsoft Hardware 1 year ago 2 Replies
    Going all in with surface connect – am I crazy?
    By angusmatheson, 1 year ago
    7 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Hardware
    angusmatheson Microsoft Hardware 1 year ago 7 Replies
    Apple just gave the most amazing boost for Edge
    By angusmatheson, 2 years ago
    14 Replies
    Forum: Microsoft
    Category: Microsoft
    angusmatheson Microsoft Microsoft 2 years ago 14 Replies

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    I have mixed modules and never had a problem booting the PC, but I hear that can happen. The biggest problem i

    Posted 14 hours ago on Mixing RAM modules – 5 Comments

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    In reply to rob_segal:Having used a butterfly keyboard for awhile. It was more than a problem. It was a comple

    Posted 15 hours ago on Apple MacBook Pro (M1) First Impressions – 54 Comments

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    In reply to longhorn:I have never had any problems with my palm interfering while typing in the M1 MacBook Air

    Posted 15 hours ago on Apple MacBook Pro (M1) First Impressions – 54 Comments

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    These are absolutely boring computers. And that is a very remarkable thing. I am replacing a coworkers 6 year

    Posted 15 hours ago on Apple MacBook Pro (M1) First Impressions – 54 Comments

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    I remain frustrated by Microsoft’s attempt at new OS: Windows RT, Windows S, and Windows 10 on ARM (and I’

    Posted 5 days ago on The (10)X Factor (Premium) – 71 Comments

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    In reply to wright_is:That sounds much easier than the way I did it!

    Posted 2 weeks ago on Apple Mac Mini (M1): One More Thing – 71 Comments

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    I just had to do a full restore of a surface laptop go. I get to the recovery from going to restart and holdin

    Posted 2 weeks ago on Apple Mac Mini (M1): One More Thing – 71 Comments

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    The surface laptop go arrived. It is a cute little computer and the nurses love it. The 3 by 2 screen is great

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple is building the computer of the future, and I’m buying the Surface Laptop Go of the past – 14 Comments

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    Apple is building the computer of the future, and I’m buying the Surface Laptop Go of the past

    6 years ago we bought 11” MacBook airs for our nurses to carry with them as they work. They have worked great...but are beginning to show their age. Apple is making amazing 13” M1 MacBook airs, but I just bought a surface laptop pro to see if it will work. It can run our 30 year old office management software which the Macs never could. Some of our doctor use surface laptops and pros so we have surface chargers in each room. The nurses want something small. It all makes sense to get the surface laptop Go. But it breaks my heart to not be getting the computer that I know will running the ARM processor that I know will be the future.

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple is building the computer of the future, and I’m buying the Surface Laptop Go of the past – 14 Comments

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    I cannot agree more about abandoning 16 by 9 scenes on laptops. If you are going to watch a movie you are goin

    Posted 1 month ago on HP Spectre x360 14 First Impressions – 73 Comments

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    In reply to Winner:on a fully updated windows PC, I had to adjust a “setting” and it wasn’t in settings.

    Posted 1 month ago on Microsoft Edge Heads to M1 Macs in Preview – 27 Comments

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    As I remember it the scandal at the time of release was that the chipset was not the newest - a year out of da

    Posted 1 month ago on Surface Duo is Coming to 4 New Countries in 2021 – 37 Comments

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    In reply to glenn8878:Really? I had never heard that. That would be amazing. Certainly increases the native AR

    Posted 1 month ago on Hands-On with Windows 10 on ARM x64 Emulation – 81 Comments

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    In reply to ianbetteridge:Thanks. I admit I love the look of the surface pro X. Out of curiosity, why did you

    Posted 1 month ago on Hands-On with Windows 10 on ARM x64 Emulation – 81 Comments

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    In reply to SYNERDATA:What I think would be amazing for AMD is that they can put the CPU (ARM or x86) on the s

    Posted 1 month ago on Hands-On with Windows 10 on ARM x64 Emulation – 81 Comments

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    In reply to ianbetteridge:But why release it as a product that doesn’t work well. Why not get the bugs irone

    Posted 1 month ago on Hands-On with Windows 10 on ARM x64 Emulation – 81 Comments

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    We just bought 2 for audio streaming with FaceTime. They were great. Super thin and light. The lack of touch o

    Posted 1 month ago on What do people think about the iPod touch 7 (released last year) now? – 11 Comments

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    In reply to Winner:Apple is reaping the benefits of slow incremental change to allow this to happen. 64 bit AR

    Posted 1 month ago on Hands-On with Windows 10 on ARM x64 Emulation – 81 Comments

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    I find it fascinating that all the M1 Mac reviewers are M1 Mac vs Intel Mac. I haven’t seen M1 Mac vs Window

    Posted 1 month ago on Hands-On with Windows 10 on ARM x64 Emulation – 81 Comments

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    In reply to nbplopes:i have and old PowerPC Mac in a closet. It breaks my heart to think of all the intel macs

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple’s M-Series Mac Roadmap Leaks – 30 Comments

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    I remember the dark years of the MacBook Pro when they didn’t anything new for years then released that disa

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple’s M-Series Mac Roadmap Leaks – 30 Comments

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    I know it sounds crazy bur my air pods (regular, I think 2nd gerneration) are my favorite product ever. I have

    Posted 1 month ago on Apple Announces AirPods Max – 86 Comments

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    In my mind, I still call the Command key the “open apple” key. I haven’t booted up an apple II in many,

    Posted 1 month ago on Some key differences between macOS and Windows that switchers have problems with – 35 Comments

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    In reply to wright_is:i totally agree, but I think you are the minority. I bet not 1 person in 1000 has change

    Posted 1 month ago on Why Apple’s M1 SoC is so Fast – 37 Comments

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    In reply to Geoff:i cannot find a review comparing the M1 MacBook Air to the Surface Pro X (or any other windo

    Posted 1 month ago on What did Microsoft gain from releasing the Surface Pro X last year? – 73 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:I agree. I have really tried to use a surface pro as a tablet, and it doesn’t work

    Posted 1 month ago on Impact of the M1 chip on Windows and PCs – 156 Comments

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    Any word what happened to Mary Jo’s surface laptop 3 that wouldn’t boot before windows weekly?

    Posted 1 month ago on Disappointing Surface Laptop 4, Pro 8 Images Leak – 52 Comments

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    In reply to glenn8878:But this year the Apple computers did change the internals a lot. I suspect it is unlike

    Posted 1 month ago on Disappointing Surface Laptop 4, Pro 8 Images Leak – 52 Comments

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    In reply to curtisspendlove:The blessing and the curse of Windows is its support of legacy programs. We are st

    Posted 2 months ago on Apple Did It … Again (Premium) – 147 Comments

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    Microsoft releases stuff before it is ready and then abandons it. This has been especially true with its ARM o

    Posted 2 months ago on Apple Did It … Again (Premium) – 147 Comments

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    In reply to dftf:All this talk about wanting to run Windows on ARM macs. But no one wants to run ARM windows c

    Posted 2 months ago on Yet Another Wildly Speculative Windows on ARM Thread – 37 Comments

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    There has been all this talk about benchmarks and complaints about the Apple M1 event. But I don’t understan

    Posted 2 months ago on Yet Another Wildly Speculative Windows on ARM Thread – 37 Comments

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    In reply to james.h.robinson:I’ve played with boot camp. If you want a windows PC, buy a windows PC. I canno

    Posted 2 months ago on This Is Apple’s First ARM Processor for the Mac – 101 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:I could never wear it as a shirt. But I would love it on a shirt. As much as I kno

    Posted 2 months ago on This Is Apple’s First ARM Processor for the Mac – 101 Comments

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    In reply to wright_is:iPhones and iPads have always performed quite well with very low RAM compared to android

    Posted 2 months ago on This Is Apple’s First ARM Processor for the Mac – 101 Comments

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    In reply to sammyg:totally. But it didn’t need to be confusing. Skype was to video calls what google was to

    Posted 2 months ago on Zoom Finally Adds End-to-End Encryption – 11 Comments

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    I do not understand how Microsoft bought the premier video chatting platform - Skype. And then let it flounder

    Posted 2 months ago on Zoom Finally Adds End-to-End Encryption – 11 Comments

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    In reply to Sir_Timbit:I gave my Face ID phone to my son and am using an old iPhone SE just to get the fingerp

    Posted 3 months ago on Apple iPhone 12 First Impressions – 50 Comments

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    In reply to j5:I too often wipe things and start fresh. But I do think for the average user the ability to sim

    Posted 3 months ago on Apple iPhone 12 First Impressions – 50 Comments

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    As we are are mourning the loss of HP tablets, can we pour one out for the HP Touchpad? And WebOS that died w

    Posted 3 months ago on Death of an HP Stream tablet – 16 Comments

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    first, about dual monitor quirkinesses: one of the hospitals where I work uses Citrix receiver to access the h

    Posted 3 months ago on Living with a Laptop: Dual Displays (Premium) – 67 Comments

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    This is a pathetic move. Microsoft couldn’t attract high quality exclusives to Xbox so they bought them. Xbo

    Posted 4 months ago on Microsoft to Acquire Bethesda for $7.5 Billion – 65 Comments

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    The O2 sat seems like one more sensor we won’t care about? But in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic where

    Posted 4 months ago on Apple Announces Apple Watch Series 6, SE – 23 Comments

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    Ok, is it just me but isn’t 5nm pretty awesome. It was just a throw away line. But Qualcomm snapdragon is st

    Posted 4 months ago on Apple Announces New iPads – 37 Comments

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    In reply to kingbuzzo:Do you have that problem? I think they have a watch to sell you to solve the problem of

    Posted 5 months ago on is anyone thinking about the Duo as their next device? – 119 Comments

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    I spent about 2 months with two phones in my pocket. Having 2 screens was nice. But it ended up being too thi

    Posted 5 months ago on is anyone thinking about the Duo as their next device? – 119 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:Remember when you bought a game and could play all you wanted for free and not be penaliz

    Posted 5 months ago on Watch the Epic Parody of Apple’s “1984” Ad – 30 Comments

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    In reply to paul-thurrott:In Apple’s defense, in 1984 they were a small company fighting against an IBM clon

    Posted 5 months ago on Watch the Epic Parody of Apple’s “1984” Ad – 30 Comments

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    Surface laptop 3 and surface pro 7 just got offered 2004. Jumped on it. I desperately want to get it before an

    Posted 5 months ago on Surface Devices and Windows 10 2004 – 31 Comments

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    It is simply bizarre to see all those people crowded together without masks on. It just seems so wrong.

    Posted 6 months ago on Throwback: Microsoft Store (Premium) – 40 Comments

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    Regrets. It is funny once you make a decision all the other options become so much more appealing. We went wit

    Posted 7 months ago on Dell XPS 13 (9300) Review – 31 Comments

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    I have been thinking a lot about the universal device - a tablet, a laptop, and a docked PC with a keyboard, m

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Surface Go 2 Review – 56 Comments

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    I have been thinking about “hey Microsoft” - which does seem a little awkward (but good branding). Why not

    Posted 7 months ago on Hey Cortana, It’s Time for You to Go (Premium) – 28 Comments

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    In reply to ghostrider:It was amazing how it was all Microsoft could talk about for awhile. Hololens. Built in

    Posted 7 months ago on HP Reveals New VR Headset Built in Partnership With Microsoft and Valve – 3 Comments

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    Typo in second paragraph. ti not itthank you for your amazing work. The whole team is great

    Posted 7 months ago on Hey Cortana, It’s Time for You to Go (Premium) – 28 Comments

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    I think this is a foolish decision. I believe natural language computing will be the next Platform. Right now

    Posted 7 months ago on Microsoft Releases New Cortana Experiences – 14 Comments

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    In reply to remc86007:I also find it weird that my HP desktop is getting it before my surface pro 7. Does Micr

    Posted 7 months ago on Windows 10 Version 2004 is Now Available – 51 Comments

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    Windows 7 phone. Windows RT, windows phone 10, Windows on ARM, windows X - it just seems like Microsoft keeps

    Posted 9 months ago on The Windows 10X Problem (Premium) – 59 Comments

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    I am trying to get my 98 year old PC builder grandfather-in-law to switch h over to the NUC. Last year he lift

    Posted 10 months ago on Intel NUC 10 First Impressions – 56 Comments

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    It’s OK. I only bought 3 of these. After being bitten by 2 apple macbook pros with repeated keyboard failure

    Posted 11 months ago on Microsoft Admits to Surface Laptop 3 Display Cracking – 34 Comments

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    it is interesting that in 2007 Apple created a new “modern” OS. They decided to keep the core of their des

    Posted 11 months ago on The Windows 10X Workflow Question (Premium) – 58 Comments

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    It is funny to be tearing into Mac now. Because after years lost in the wilderness it seems like Mac really ha

    Posted 11 months ago on Panos In, Joe B Out (Premium) – 60 Comments

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    I don’t understand why the surface pro isn’t counted as a tablet.

    Posted 11 months ago on Report: Apple Extends Its Lead in the Tablet Market – 25 Comments

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    I think the duo and neo are a mistake

    I think it is a mistake to have two devices that look identical just are different sizes - from the same company - that run different operating systems. I think it will be confusing for customers - who are used to buying laptops, phones, tablets, TVs and being able to choice the size and everything else is the same - that one runs android apps and can act like a phone. But the other runs windows apps. And the names. I can never keep straight which is neo and which is duo. Shouldn’t they both but duo as they both have two screens. Duo and Duo max/plus? The value of two screens with a bezel between them aside. (Couldn’t I basically do that now if I wanted to by carrying two smart phones in my pocket. Same thickness in my pocket. Unlike folding phones - you can’t use the whole screen for a bigger experience gaming or video.) they should have decided windows or android and done both with that.

    Posted 11 months ago on I think the duo and neo are a mistake – 22 Comments

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    I am really excited for ARM based computers. It is interesting to see these two differences approaches - windo

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Adds ARM64 Support to Its Mouse and Keyboard Center App – 5 Comments

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    That is cool. For me it is kinda a press on space bar and a little drag to the left. And interestingly the cur

    Posted 1 year ago on Space bar cursor – 4 Comments

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    I am super excited to be able to use the surface X. ARM based computing is an exciting future. That being said

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Microsoft’s Windows Weekly Giveaway: Surface Pro X, Pro 7, and Laptop 3 – 2573 Comments

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    I have refused to buy office. It is expensive and the web versions are enough. I would love to be proved wrong

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Microsoft’s Windows Weekly Giveaway: Office 365 Home – 1116 Comments

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    I loved my old flip phone motor razr. I still have in a drawer. In many ways my current smart phone falls pain

    Posted 1 year ago on Motorola Delays Its Much-Awaited Razr Reboot – 11 Comments

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    In reply to GeneCrispr:It should be software update to change it to Alexa or google assistant. That would be a

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Is Slowly Pulling the Plug On the Harman Kardon Invoke – 53 Comments

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    In reply to Eric_Rasmussen:I disagree. I think associating your personal assistant with an essentially naked,

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft Is Slowly Pulling the Plug On the Harman Kardon Invoke – 53 Comments

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    Does the surface pen seems a little cheap and plastic?

    We have surface pro 7 and the old and new iPad pros at work. I love using the pen. I use a program where there is a little or clicking and having the pen really helps. But compared to the apple pencils the surface pen seems super cheap. It doesn’t feel solid. The tip is different from the pen itself. And the tip is black, but within a few minutes the black tip wears off so the very tip is grey (as I look at pictures on line, maybe the tip is supposed to be grey). But as you touch the tip it kind of rattles. I don’t have a surface slim pen, it might feel better.

    Posted 1 year ago on Does the surface pen seems a little cheap and plastic? – 2 Comments

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    Screw you Microsoft. I bought things under the “Black Friday” sale. Which were preannounced and not as go

    Posted 1 year ago on Cyber Monday Comes Early to Microsoft Store – 2 Comments

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    Going all in with surface connect - am I crazy?

    We are a medical office and now have a USB plug in in every room. The device is large and a pain to carry. We already have some surfaces so tried the Microsoft surface dock. And it worked great. Changed, plugged in the USB device that could just sit in the desk in each room, and TEAMs attaches and reattached seamlessly. Brilliant. My only worry in 2019 is going all in on surface connect crazy? Does anyone have any inside knowledge or guesses if Microsoft is going to get rid of the surface connect and replace it width USB-C (which the surfaces we own don’t have so I didn’t try an USB C dock).. Microsoft swears they are going to keep it, but when even apple is going USB C it seems crazy to buy 9 surface connect ports and design our work flow around it. Is it crazy?

    Posted 1 year ago on Going all in with surface connect – am I crazy? – 7 Comments

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    In reply to basic sandbox:That is another problem with windows phone. They were releasing something different

    Posted 1 year ago on Gates Gets It Wrong Again on Windows Mobile (Premium) – 33 Comments

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    It’s funny they can talk about mobile and not talk about letting Andy Rubin get away. The man who made Andro

    Posted 1 year ago on Gates Gets It Wrong Again on Windows Mobile (Premium) – 33 Comments

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    Apple is abandoning 32 bit apps on iOS and macOS. In windows on ARM you can only use 32 bit apps. You can’t

    Posted 1 year ago on Apple Launches MacOS Catalina – 12 Comments

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    In reply to irfaanwahid:And it is so cheap they are practically giving them away. I don’t know how purchasin

    Posted 1 year ago on Samsung Tells Galaxy Fold Owners to Be Extra Careful – 16 Comments

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    In reply to Rob_Wade:I tend to agree. It seems stupid to me. But what won me over to the possibility was Diete

    Posted 1 year ago on Samsung Tells Galaxy Fold Owners to Be Extra Careful – 16 Comments

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    Delightful video. What talent. And to deify Bill Gates is brilliant. It’s funny Apple is going away from the

    Posted 1 year ago on Microsoft the Musical – 29 Comments

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    Why have an event in October when your most exciting product ships in September? That makes no sense. No one e

    Posted 1 year ago on HoloLens 2 to Ship in September – 3 Comments

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    I think what bothered me about his a as the at Bill Nye presents himself as a scientists who presents science

    Posted 1 year ago on Google Enlists Bill Nye to Push Chromebooks – 70 Comments

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    I would like to win a Huawei MateBook 13.

    Posted 1 year ago on [CLOSED] Win a Huawei MateBook 13! – 769 Comments

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    My main computer for iTunes is a fairly powerful windows laptop (i7, 8GB of RAM) - but loading iTunes on ITV i

    Posted 1 year ago on The End of iTunes (Premium) – 53 Comments

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    This is important news. Intel has time after time been unable to compete with ARM for non-computer form factor

    Posted 1 year ago on Intel Kills Off Compute Card – 7 Comments

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    But seriously, how many times have we heard Facebook say they screwed up in the past, but now they are going t

    Posted 1 year ago on Facebook’s Chief Product Officer and Head of WhatsApp Just Left the Company – 11 Comments

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    Ok. I don’t be have a Fitbit so haven’t used sleep tracking. But I totally don’t get sleep tracking. Unl

    Posted 1 year ago on Apple Reportedly Bringing Sleep Tracking to the Apple Watch – 30 Comments

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    That is a little creepy. Your company knowing how much your are exercising and where you are going with GPS.

    Posted 1 year ago on Fitbit’s New Fitness Trackers Are Only Available to Businesses – 8 Comments

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    The thing that would stop me from investing in chrome OS is fuschia. It is my understanding that Google is pla

    Posted 2 years ago on Acer Chromebook Spin 13 Review – 42 Comments

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    In reply to BoItmanLives:The question is why did Apple let Siri get so dumb next to Alexa and Google Assistant

    Posted 2 years ago on “Hey Siri, OK Google” – 30 Comments

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    In reply to ghostrider:I think it isn’t about reducing quality - but obsessive drive for thinness. And not r

    Posted 2 years ago on Lol the new iPad Pro’s are a sheet of aluminum foil – 22 Comments

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    In reply to FalseAgent:Actually since I wrote that I watched some terrifying YouTube videos. I do hope the emp

    Posted 2 years ago on Lol the new iPad Pro’s are a sheet of aluminum foil – 22 Comments

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    In reply to HellcatM:Of all my devices. My phone seems the first die, and the one I would want to keep going l

    Posted 2 years ago on Samsung’s Next Galaxy S Flagship to Have Six Cameras, Reverse Wireless Charging, 5G – 17 Comments

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    I don’t own one of these. I’m not really snapchat’s Demographic and have never used it and likely never

    Posted 2 years ago on Snap’s Next Spectacles to Feature Two Cameras – 5 Comments

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    Passwords are terrible, and I am so glad they are going away. How many years has it been since War Games taugh

    Posted 2 years ago on You Can Now Sign-In to Your Microsoft Account Without a Password – 56 Comments

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    As much as Apple blowing their purchased digital assistant lead with Siri and Microsoft blowing their purchase

    Posted 2 years ago on Skype Calling is Now Available on Alexa – 16 Comments

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    This happens every time apple comes out with an iPhone that is really new. The 6 plus increased sales and ever

    Posted 2 years ago on Apple Cuts New iPhone Production by 30 Percent – 75 Comments

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    In reply to WP7Mango:there is a couple of ways to think about this. 1) Apple is a luxury brand. I have never t

    Posted 2 years ago on Apple Cuts New iPhone Production by 30 Percent – 75 Comments

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    This is foolish. It is clear that natural language ambient computing is the next next platform. Apple clearly

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft is Now Selling Amazon Echo Smart Speakers – 18 Comments

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    We just got one for work. It feels pretty solid. The keyboard is back ordered and not arriving until next week

    Posted 2 years ago on Lol the new iPad Pro’s are a sheet of aluminum foil – 22 Comments

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    One might argue that you had this problems because you didn’t leave windows. It sounds like MacOS mojave wit

    Posted 2 years ago on It’s Not Just Microsoft (Premium) – 46 Comments

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    It is interesting that I see Apple watches and various forms of fitbit - and almost never android wear devices

    Posted 2 years ago on Google’s Wear OS Gets Battery Life Improvements – 9 Comments

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    I have to agree. That you can walk into an Apple Store and get someone to help. My work owned two of the 2016

    Posted 2 years ago on Apple Admits to Hardware Quality Problems with iPhone X, MacBook Pro – 36 Comments

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    Microsoft does not really care about its OEM partners - if it did, it would not make surface computers to comp

    Posted 2 years ago on The Sams Report: Houston, We Have an 1809 – 11 Comments

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    My favorite analysis of the “disappointment” of the iPhone C was from Ben Thompson from Stretechery. He ar

    Posted 2 years ago on Report: iPhone XR Sales are Much Softer Than Expected – 42 Comments

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    It seems to me that PWAs hurt windows as much as helps it. True that PWA will allows windows to have modern ap

    Posted 2 years ago on Google Chrome Now Lets You Install PWAs As Regular Apps on Windows 10 – 53 Comments

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    In reply to bbelt1970:Yes! Every $ the OEMs paid to Microsoft supports them building computers to compete with

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft Becomes a Top 5 PC Maker in the US – 23 Comments

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    In reply to Jacob Klein:If the didn’t know, that is more embarrassing. Apparently searching the feedback hub

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft Begins the “Re-release” of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update – 72 Comments

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    In reply to skane2600:I think the vision is chromebooks booting into windows later and desktop Linux apps. I t

    Posted 2 years ago on Google Launches a Pixel-Branded Premium Chromebook Tablet – 20 Comments

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    I wonder if Google will regret creating a second OS - and not focusing Android for phone, tablet, and notebook

    Posted 2 years ago on A Month With Chrome OS and Pixelbook – 29 Comments

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    In reply to Angusmatheson:For the consumer. For Facebook the advantage is obvious.

    Posted 2 years ago on Facebook Launches Portal Smart Display – 16 Comments

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    Why wouldn’t you just get an iPad or a fire tablet? I don’t see the advantage of this over those devices?

    Posted 2 years ago on Facebook Launches Portal Smart Display – 16 Comments

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    In reply to Raphael:I agree. The more I think about these the more baffling. If they have a room full of audio

    Posted 2 years ago on From NYC: First Video Look at the new Pro. Laptop, and Headphones – 11 Comments

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    When Apple bought Beats in 2014 I was sure we would see a ton of Apple/Beats branded speakers with AirPlay and

    Posted 2 years ago on Google Home Mini is Available in a New Color – 6 Comments

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    I wonder where we would be if the Fire phone hadn’t flopped. Instead of that 3D monstrosity they had created

    Posted 2 years ago on The Thing About Amazon (Premium) – 32 Comments

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    A functioning App Store is critical to fixing one of the great problems with computers - viruses. It makes pur

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft is Reprocessing Store Apps to Fix Error 0x800B0100 – 19 Comments

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    I’ve always thought Mac’s OSX Big Cat’s (now places in California), Androids candy, and Linux Animal All

    Posted 2 years ago on Yes, Redstone 5 Will Be Named the October 2018 Update – 21 Comments

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    In reply to skane2600:I’m one for whom it turned my computer abstract art. I was working on a friends Surfa

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    I don’t understand why this is about Apple. Huawei’s and Apple’s growth have nothing to do with each oth

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    In reply to pderosa:What is weird about the iPad - is that the iPhone has a different name for each one that c

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    On the plus side, it only has to secretly record your location to send to Google once...unless you move

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    Most people hate windows and hate their computer. When I think of the the plagues of most computer users 1) co

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    I totally agree. What people want is for Microsoft to have made the courier in 2008 - and have lead the mobile

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    The problem as I see it for Windows is that the developers are all going one way. All new apps are made iOS th

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    I loves windows 10. I despised Windows 8 with a passion that I cannot even express. I was furious with Microso

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    In reply to MikeGalos:It’s true. It is super easy to ignore updates on the Mac. They aren’t nearly as push

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    In reply to karma77police:My complaint about the setting app - is that in the beginning there wasn’t much th

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    In reply to MikeGalos:But it was a marvel. It was certainly innovative. It however did not work well and was s

    Posted 2 years ago on Apple Finally Admits to MacBook Keyboard Design Flaw – 66 Comments

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    In reply to MikeCerm:Apple does have a long history of missed products. This feels different to me because it

    Posted 2 years ago on Apple Finally Admits to MacBook Keyboard Design Flaw – 66 Comments

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    First, this key design is truly terrible. I have the misfortune of owning two of these 2016 MacBook pros and b

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    I’m not surprised. We just moved and the PS4 got unpacked but the VR didn’t. It doesn’t seem like VR sal

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    In reply to Angusmatheson:The other factor that I worry about in modern FPS. In the old days, you and your fri

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    I wonder a little about whether we are training a generation of homocidal,remorseless killers. Maybe not every

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    In reply to puggsly:the 2016 MacBook pro’s keyboard is truly terrible. Bad design. What is so hard is the ol

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    In reply to jimchamplin:Sorry yes. How to stream WWDC.

    Posted 2 years ago on Apple just gave the most amazing boost for Edge – 14 Comments

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    “Apple recommends using the Microsoft Edge browser on a PC running Windows 10.“ from ZDnet. That is the most support for Edge outside of Microsoft itself.

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    In reply to X911ty12:that totally sucks!

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft to Retire Groove for Android and iOS – 62 Comments

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    Posted 2 years ago on April 2018 Update Rolling Out Even Faster than Expected – 52 Comments

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    In reply to karma77police:I never used Windows Vista. One of my goals this summer is to put an old box of Vist

    Posted 2 years ago on April 2018 Update Rolling Out Even Faster than Expected – 52 Comments

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    I became an accidental seeker. I hate it when microsoft updates when I’m trying to work, so I often check Mi

    Posted 2 years ago on April 2018 Update Rolling Out Even Faster than Expected – 52 Comments

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    In reply to mjw149:I do wonder what an Amazong phone version of the fire tablet - low cost, well connected to

    Posted 2 years ago on Essentially Gone: Not Even Andy Rubin Can Build an Android Company – 70 Comments

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    In reply to DavidSlade:The value is finding problems early and addressing them. In this case I think they saw

    Posted 2 years ago on 1803 update: 4th time’s a charm – 21 Comments

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    I thought that Andy Rubin left Google was because he had a relationship with someone in his direct chain of co

    Posted 2 years ago on Essentially Gone: Not Even Andy Rubin Can Build an Android Company – 70 Comments

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    In reply to BoItmanLives:I’m not sure if hey ever cared, but I would totally agree they didn’t seem to put

    Posted 2 years ago on PC Makers are Embracing Alexa – 42 Comments

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    This is terrible news for Cotana. 1) even Microsoft’s closest partners have no faith in it. And 2) the one a

    Posted 2 years ago on PC Makers are Embracing Alexa – 42 Comments

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    This is a really important issue. The sales estimates are the best key to the relative strengths of each platf

    Posted 2 years ago on Watch Out Alexa, Google is Coming Home – 36 Comments

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    It’s not fair to blame only Microsoft for announcing a promising but disappointing product then waiting a lo

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft’s Building the Next-Gen HoloLens in Broad Daylight – 29 Comments

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    I use you youtube in a browser a lot for music. It is easy and it is free. I’m not sure I’m excited to pay

    Posted 2 years ago on Google to Launch YouTube Music Next Week – 35 Comments

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    This is a giant surface studio. I wonder would most people rather have a giant iPad? I get that businesses mig

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft Unveils Gorgeous New Surface Hub 2 – 46 Comments

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    Where was this during build? In 3 hours and 40 minutes on Monday and 1 1/2 hours on Tuesday...it never came up

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft Unveils Gorgeous New Surface Hub 2 – 46 Comments

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    I see more and more Apple watches every day (I admitted live in Northern California). There was a blip in fitb

    Posted 2 years ago on Report: Qualcomm Will Try to Save Wear OS This Year – 31 Comments

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    This sounds amazing. ChromeOS will have its current web extension type apps, all Android apps, PWAs, and all L

    Posted 2 years ago on Linux App Support is Coming to Chrome OS – 123 Comments

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    It is great. And a lot of the annoying things that most of us find annoying about Windows 10 aren’t there- a

    Posted 2 years ago on Linux App Support is Coming to Chrome OS – 123 Comments

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    MacOS also hasn’t really gotten any better since Mountain Lion. Admittedly OS X has changed less than Window

    Posted 2 years ago on What I Use, Build 2018: MacBook Air (Premium) – 92 Comments

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    I think the problem with Apple is that the MacBook Air is basically their perfect computer. Weight is light en

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    I think is is an example of how names matter. If it had been the Spring update II or Bobcat, or Silly skink or

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft to Fix Windows 10 Version 1803 Freezing Issue – 100 Comments

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    Apple almost went with an Intel chip on the first iPhone. Maybe performance would have been so bad it never co

    Posted 2 years ago on Intel and 10 nm (Premium) – 19 Comments

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    I’ve always thought the touchbar was a Trojan horse to get an ARM chip into a Mac, then Software engineers c

    Posted 2 years ago on HP Envy x2 (Qualcomm) Review – 81 Comments

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    Mac has a wonderful setting - you can allow programs from all developers, or from verified developers, or just

    Posted 2 years ago on You’ll Be Able to Get Out of Windows 10 in S Mode Via the Store – 12 Comments

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    It may be that it is because I read this site regularly and not Mac and Linux fan sites, but I haven’t heard

    Posted 2 years ago on Google Calls Out Microsoft on Windows 10 S Flaw – 56 Comments

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    There are a lot of medical iOS apps that don’t really exist on PC or Mac (or Android). Probably also true fo

    Posted 2 years ago on Tim Cook Shoots Down Convergence Rumors – 133 Comments

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    It’s funny. Apple has abandoned 32 bit apps on iOS, and is now is forcing Mac users to abandon 32 bit apps o

    Posted 2 years ago on Clarifying Microsoft’s Plans for 64-Bit Apps on Windows 10 on ARM – 50 Comments

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    As a gay man in his late 50s - I bet this issue is very close to Tim Cooks heart. He lived through those decad

    Posted 2 years ago on Apple Announces Special Edition Red iPhone 8 – 12 Comments

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    I’m interested why you use android phones while so deeply in Apple’s ecosystem - iPad Pro and MacBook Pro.

    Posted 2 years ago on Google Pixel 2 XL, Replaced – 53 Comments

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    I own two 2016 MacBook pros for work. And they are terrible. They perform no better then the well speced MacBo

    Posted 2 years ago on I chided the "Mac Pro in 2019" news, but Apple’s Pro Worfklow Team should encourage the Apple faithful (and scare Panos Panay) – 22 Comments

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    Microsoft store is a painful name. The original as I recall was “store” which was terrible because so vagu

    Posted 2 years ago on The First Set of PWAs Land on the Microsoft Store – 61 Comments

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    I bet it will be like when they went from OS 9 to 10 or PowerPC to Intel. Apple has done this a lot. And they

    Posted 2 years ago on Apple to Ditch Intel in Favour of Its Custom Chips in Macs From 2020 – 53 Comments

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    Sign me up. Last year my office bought a 2016 MacBook Pro - which has sucked. Terrible keyboard, but really no

    Posted 2 years ago on Apple to Ditch Intel in Favour of Its Custom Chips in Macs From 2020 – 53 Comments

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    I was so excited for Windows 10. Mostly because I hated windows 8 with a burning passion, and was pissed of fa

    Posted 2 years ago on Three years of Windows 10 – An Assessment – 14 Comments

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    I don’t see any user facing advances in any desktop OS since Windows 7, OSX mountain lion, maybe Ubuntu 12 (

    Posted 2 years ago on Complaining about Windows – 43 Comments

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    If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. You are an angel for doing all that tech support for your family! ”In re

    Posted 2 years ago on Chromebook – 90 Comments

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    I’m curious why not an iPad? Given you are an iOS guy and they are famous for being very easy. My mother who

    Posted 2 years ago on Chromebook – 90 Comments

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    If Windows 8 didn’t usher in the age of desktop Linux...nothing will. Windows 8 was terrible and Microsoft j

    Posted 2 years ago on Here’s What’s Really Happening with Windows 10 (Premium) – 132 Comments

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    Microsoft is fighting the last fight, with the tools that failed to win then. What is heart breaking, is that

    Posted 2 years ago on Here’s What’s Really Happening with Windows 10 (Premium) – 132 Comments

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    I wonder about the success of windows in ARM. We just started using a few iPad pros at work, and everyone who

    Posted 2 years ago on Windows on ARM – 27 Comments

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    My complaint with windows update is that it forces itself in the background as soon you turn the computer on.

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    I wonder about phone docking. I’ve just started docking my laptop at work to replace my desktop, and rather

    Posted 2 years ago on Samsung Galaxy S9 Preview: The 2018 Flagships Have Arrived – 45 Comments

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    Apple came out with their super sexy new iPhone X - whether it is worth it or not, it certainly has all the ex

    Posted 2 years ago on Samsung Galaxy S9 Preview: The 2018 Flagships Have Arrived – 45 Comments

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    I can answer the reverse - the Windows I hated was Windows 8. It was horrible. The desktop and the tile based

    Posted 2 years ago on What was the last version of Windows you truly loved (From a GUI)? – 35 Comments

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    Unless you are using Windows S then you have to use EdgeIn reply to Vic116:

    Posted 2 years ago on Google Reveals Another Microsoft Vulnerability Before Its Fixed – 96 Comments

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    Every year, at least once, I walk into my sliding glass door which I think is opens but is not. As a child, 40

    Posted 2 years ago on And It Just Hurts: Apple Employees Are Walking Into Walls – 45 Comments

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    I do not think they have Always been form over function. I know I just wrote a novel of a post, but I will say

    Posted 2 years ago on And It Just Hurts: Apple Employees Are Walking Into Walls – 45 Comments

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    I have used Apple devices since my Apple IIe high school and Mac SE in college. What I think about today’s A

    Posted 2 years ago on And It Just Hurts: Apple Employees Are Walking Into Walls – 45 Comments

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    This to me is about the basic problem with Microsoft making surface. You cannot be a competitor to the OEM and

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft Promotes Survey That Shows Big Preference for Macs (Premium) – 35 Comments

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    I always found the numbering of the Microsoft Lumia phones to be baffling. Vaguely higher was newer and better

    Posted 2 years ago on Microsoft Promotes Survey That Shows Big Preference for Macs (Premium) – 35 Comments

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    In reply to Daishi:And historically software and low power have never been intel’s strong points - and for t

    Posted 2 years ago on Intel AR Glasses – 9 Comments

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    i do think of the ways it is natural to use a voice Assistant the phone - or watch or some other mobile device

    Posted 3 years ago on Amazon is Taking the Bold Step of Adding Alexa to its Alexa App – 20 Comments

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    It does make the people who bought them for $450 just 1 month ago feels like chumps though.

    Posted 3 years ago on Windows Mixed Reality Headsets Are Already 50 Percent Off – 49 Comments

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    I can’t help by wonder if windows 7 and windows phone 7 were allowed to mature on their own. Instead of bein

    Posted 3 years ago on The Andromeda Strain (Premium) – 100 Comments

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    The smart phone is amazingly close to the device that does everything for most people- it is their phone, ala

    Posted 3 years ago on The Andromeda Strain (Premium) – 100 Comments

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    Microsoft shouldn’t be retreating on Cortana, but should be making it better. The next way we are going to i

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft (Kind Of) Kills Cortana’s Music Recognition Feature – 35 Comments

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    The thing I don’t understand is that Microsoft was ahead. Microsoft had a monthly fee streaming surface in Z

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft (Kind Of) Kills Cortana’s Music Recognition Feature – 35 Comments

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    I was told that because Windows XP wasn’t getting updates it wasn’t HIPPA compliant. If they are using XP

    Posted 3 years ago on Fall Creators Update Usage Soars – 46 Comments

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    I love elementary OS. In reply to Waethorn:

    Posted 3 years ago on Fall Creators Update Usage Soars – 46 Comments

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    It’s not on older hardware. It is in hard debate with failing batteries. This is to keep older phones workin

    Posted 3 years ago on Apple Apologizes for Throttling iPhones, Offers $29 Replacement Batteries – 66 Comments

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    I think this a a great feature. I’ve hung onto an iPhone 6 for a couple of extra years and this year - the b

    Posted 3 years ago on Apple Apologizes for Throttling iPhones, Offers $29 Replacement Batteries – 66 Comments

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    I would love to run iOS apps on my Macbooks at work. There are a lot of medical apps that doesn’t exist as w

    Posted 3 years ago on Apple Set to Combine iOS and Mac Apps As It Looks to Build a Unified Platform – 45 Comments

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    That is terrible! So any picture wakes the phone. That is as bad as the original iPhones slide to unlock. Was

    Posted 3 years ago on OnePlus 5T Review: We Have a Winner – 50 Comments

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    In reply to AwkwardSwine:I am having the same problem with my 3 year old phone. It really does everything I co

    Posted 3 years ago on OnePlus 5T First Impressions – 39 Comments

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    Razer is a brand that speaks to my PC gaming son. His phone is currently a hand me down, and is saving up for

    Posted 3 years ago on Razer’s First Ever Android Phone Now Available at the Microsoft Store – 8 Comments

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    This is really about Paul being sad about the death of Windows Phone and having trouble moving on. You never r

    Posted 3 years ago on Google Pixel 2 XL Review: I’m Calling It – 75 Comments

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    i am not an artist, so the pen is basically wasted on me. But the Apple Pencil (lame name) does feel like you

    Posted 3 years ago on Google Pixelbook First Impressions – 157 Comments

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    I haven’t used this device, and my only chrome book experience is my son’s crappy school one. However, I c

    Posted 3 years ago on Google Pixelbook First Impressions – 157 Comments

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    I haven’t seriously played a video game in years, and I can’t wait to play COD WW2.

    Posted 3 years ago on Call of Duty: WWII Made $500 Million in Three Days – 11 Comments

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    I’m so excited that Paul will be writing about the Pixel 2 XL. I have heard so much about it: blue screen, b

    Posted 3 years ago on Google Pixel 2 XL First Impressions – 59 Comments

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    In reply to RobertJasiek:I blame this on how they sells screen - it is the diagonal distance which is listed a

    Posted 3 years ago on Google Pixel 2 XL First Impressions – 59 Comments

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    Shouldn’t the standard be whether it works better than Microsoft’s phone or Googles phone facial recogniti

    Posted 3 years ago on Here’s What the Reviewers are Saying About iPhone X Facial Recognition – 113 Comments

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    And pixil captured a whopping 0.7% of the US smartphone market.In reply to Stooks:

    Posted 3 years ago on Google is Bringing Video Calling to Android – 46 Comments

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    I am not a Windows 365 subscriber, so maybe not the user Microsoft is trying to please. When I buy a computer

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft’s Paywall in Photos Remix May Be The Start of Something More – 79 Comments

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    The Consumers Reports don’t buy recommendation is not, I’m sure, good news for those within Microsoft who

    Posted 3 years ago on So is Microsoft giving up on Surface? – 14 Comments

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    My father is super excited about the Pixil 2 translation - I’m more skeptical. Didn’t we see the same demo

    Posted 3 years ago on Google Announces New Smartphones, Other Products, as Expected – 38 Comments

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    HellcatM, I best you are as old as I am, at least in your 40s. Everyone younger, born post Napster, finds buyi

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Ends Groove Music Pass, Offers Transition to Spotify – 215 Comments

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    If I was the music labels I would have worked to keep Groove alive. Apple, Spotify, and YouTube are all that a

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Ends Groove Music Pass, Offers Transition to Spotify – 215 Comments

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    I hate when they give products meaningless cool sounding names. What does “Quantum” mean in a browser? And

    Posted 3 years ago on Firefox 57 Hits Beta, is Renamed to Firefox Quantum – 21 Comments

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    In reply to Jester:I did an HTC Vive demo in a micosoft Store and it was great. Lots of space. The employee wa

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    I hooked up a Bluetooth keyboard to our Apple TV. It has been great. Can’t play many games with it, but it i

    Posted 3 years ago on Apple TV 4K First Impressions – 44 Comments

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    I agree that a touch based OS - Android or iOS - would work well with a mouse and keyboard, while I do not thi

    Posted 3 years ago on Living with Chromebook: The Basics – 110 Comments

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    I am now and old man. I remember during the early days of the internet, it was a safe place where you would fe

    Posted 3 years ago on Living with Chromebook: The Basics – 110 Comments

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    I think in an Apple Store it is $79 plus tax to replace an iPhone battery...but I'm not sure how old a ph

    Posted 3 years ago on Samsung Announces Note 8 “Super Phablet” – 32 Comments

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    yes, but no surface books for surface pro 4s burned down people's houses or cars. (Admitted I didn't

    Posted 3 years ago on Samsung Announces Note 8 “Super Phablet” – 32 Comments

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    In the mobile space, I find Samsung's dominance in the high end fascinating. It clearly is awesome for yo

    Posted 3 years ago on Samsung has an edge over Apple? – 11 Comments

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    I think the Windows team in Microsoft who had a lot of power in Microsoft, didn't want to play second fid

    Posted 3 years ago on Living with Windows 10 S: The Desktop, Take 2 – 73 Comments

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    It isn't fair to judge a decision is retrospect. But from what we know today. It was clearly not worh it.

    Posted 3 years ago on Living with Windows 10 S: The Desktop, Take 2 – 73 Comments

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    That is brilliant. What if Microsoft sold Cortana to every company to replace their terrible automated phone s

    Posted 3 years ago on Harman Kardon and Cortana Don’t Have an Exclusive Relationship – 27 Comments

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    Did you read the last article about Android Wear? So much tech journalism is blind fanboi I love that Paul is

    Posted 3 years ago on Google Discusses the Future of its Assistant – 36 Comments

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    Fitbit, which has consistently been at the top in terms of market share, fell dramatically. The company, which

    Posted 3 years ago on Google: Over 20 Android Wear 2.0 Watches are Coming This Year – 23 Comments

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    In reply to ghostrider:Global smartwatch shipments at 6.2 million units in Q1 2017 were up 48% YoY. Apple

    Posted 3 years ago on Google: Over 20 Android Wear 2.0 Watches are Coming This Year – 23 Comments

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    The worst pun ever on this site. That last line was brilliant.

    Posted 3 years ago on Google: Over 20 Android Wear 2.0 Watches are Coming This Year – 23 Comments

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    In reply to Stooks:personal computing is at an inflection point. Personal computing, until 10 years ago, has e

    Posted 3 years ago on Google Discusses the Future of its Assistant – 36 Comments

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    natural language digital assistants are the next computing platform. Apple saw this first and bought Siri. How

    Posted 3 years ago on Google Discusses the Future of its Assistant – 36 Comments

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    Spoken assistants seem to me to work best ambient - when you can just talk to it. Which seems best with fixed

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft made smart move for Cortana! at IFA – 8 Comments

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    I also think naming Cortana after a naked, blue skinned woman with gravity defying anatomy from an incredibly

    Posted 3 years ago on Harman Kardon and Cortana Don’t Have an Exclusive Relationship – 27 Comments

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    the last great OS platform wars were for the mobile OS - and unlike the last two (GUI, and command line) Micr

    Posted 3 years ago on Harman Kardon and Cortana Don’t Have an Exclusive Relationship – 27 Comments

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    Now, September 2017, I can't see any other windows 10S computers in either the Microsoft store or on Amaz

    Posted 3 years ago on Living with Windows 10 S: The Desktop, Take 2 – 73 Comments

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    I think they saw the one Windows as a way to get apps. I really think it was done to save the desktop. They kn

    Posted 3 years ago on Living with Windows 10 S: The Desktop, Take 2 – 73 Comments

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    I disagree. Despite being released in a education event. I think microsoft sees the future for Windows in Wind

    Posted 3 years ago on Living with Windows 10 S: The Desktop, Take 2 – 73 Comments

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    Windows 10S makes me wish Microsoft had simply stuck with windows phone 7 and evolved windows 7. They one have

    Posted 3 years ago on Living with Windows 10 S: The Desktop, Take 2 – 73 Comments

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    In reply to MikeGalos:I've always been amazing that whenever I've put Linux on old hardware it just

    Posted 3 years ago on Living with Windows 10 S: The Desktop, Take 2 – 73 Comments

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    But whose needs are satisfied (better then they would with another system.) on PC I need Chrome and Firefox (t

    Posted 3 years ago on Living with Windows 10 S: The Desktop, Take 2 – 73 Comments

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    Every school that I know has piles of windows PCs - laptops and Desktop. These are largely no longer useful. W

    Posted 3 years ago on Living with Windows 10 S: The Desktop, Take 2 – 73 Comments

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    Samsung has had a leadership crisis since the man who creating it, the father of the man who went to jail, had

    Posted 3 years ago on Samsung legal problems–big deal to you? – 4 Comments

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    I have 3 1 maybe 1/2 year old powerful hp towers. None of them have creators update. I have 1/2 dozen odd upgr

    Posted 3 years ago on Windows 10 Device Usage: Creators Update Deployment Still Lags – 31 Comments

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    In reply to DataMeister:We use Backblaze and have been very happy with it. After a power outage an external po

    Posted 3 years ago on CrashPlan is Shutting Down Its Consumer Backup Service – 24 Comments

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    What a difference a year makes. Amazing that the Note 8 can launch without a single comment, or joke, about ex

    Posted 3 years ago on Samsung Announces Note 8 “Super Phablet” – 32 Comments

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    This is a dangerous move. Many Americans have a negative view of Walmart:(Sorry I couldn't get link to wo

    Posted 3 years ago on Google Partners with Walmart for Voice Shopping – 8 Comments

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    In reply to VancouverNinja:I use duck duck go as default, but have to admit that it isn't that common tha

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft: “Bing is Bigger Than You Think” – 48 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:You could explain how to do it so we all can learn more instead of calling people unquali

    Posted 3 years ago on Living with Chromebook: The Basics – 110 Comments

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    It might be that running the fan is actually the best option. The core chips create a lot of heat. The only op

    Posted 3 years ago on HP Spectre x2 (2017) Review – 27 Comments

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    What is too bad is how few apps the Windows Store has compacted to iOS App Store and Android App Store. I have

    Posted 3 years ago on With the Windows Store Maturing, Windows 10 S is Almost Ready For Me (Premium) – 48 Comments

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    I Just want to stop and appreciate what an amazing age we live in for music. From any connected service, at a

    Posted 3 years ago on Paul’s Tech Makeover: Music (Premium) – 49 Comments

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    The question here is whether past reliability of surface devices which all report is poor should be used to ju

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Mounts Its Defense of Surface Reliability – 67 Comments

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    My fear from the beginning with the surface line was that it would take profitable high end sales from their O

    Posted 3 years ago on Here’s What Microsoft is Saying Internally About Surface Quality and Reliability – 121 Comments

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    In reply to John_Scott:I disagree. I think there are lots of time people pay lots and are still willing to put

    Posted 3 years ago on Here’s What Microsoft is Saying Internally About Surface Quality and Reliability – 121 Comments

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    But their phone sales have been surprisingly strong, given that a year ago they there shipping a phone that ex

    Posted 3 years ago on Samsung has an edge over Apple? – 11 Comments

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    In reply to Roger Ramjet:I agree that Apple likely has lots of iPads in there , which are much more reliable.

    Posted 3 years ago on Consumer Reports: Microsoft Surface is Dead Last for Reliability – 134 Comments

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    In reply to GT_Tecolotecreek:Microsoft also abandoned windows phone when it ran into trouble after putting in

    Posted 3 years ago on Consumer Reports: Microsoft Surface is Dead Last for Reliability – 134 Comments

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    Is this surprising from the company that brought us the Xbox 360 and the red ring of death?

    Posted 3 years ago on Consumer Reports: Microsoft Surface is Dead Last for Reliability – 134 Comments

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    It is interesting to me that the first software store in the modern sense - unified payments, exists across d

    Posted 3 years ago on Living with Windows 10 S: Games – 6 Comments

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    Apple has had a huge lead in the internet connected device, and has absolutely blown their lead. Over the last

    Posted 3 years ago on Two Years Later, Apple Will Undo Its TV Embarrassments – 40 Comments

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    In reply to Bdsrev:I agree that just because they have lots of revenue and profits doesn't mean they are

    Posted 3 years ago on When in comes to tablets and computers, Apple has no strategy – 50 Comments

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    I am going to sounds like an Apple apologist, but I never understood the whole iPad is doomed. 1) I am amazed

    Posted 3 years ago on Apple Finally Reverses Years of Declining iPad Sales – 22 Comments

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    Has anyone tried it? I would love my digital assistant to do more. I think that this is the next OS/platform -

    Posted 3 years ago on Bixby Finally Comes to Galaxy S8 Users in the US – 9 Comments

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    1) another analysis for this would be go America. All 3 is the American computer companies - Dell, HP, and App

    Posted 3 years ago on The PC Market Decline Continued in Q2 2017 – 29 Comments

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    Devices like the Surface Hub - touch, voice based wall desplays are totally the future. Microsoft is totally a

    Posted 3 years ago on Thinking About the Future of Surface Hub – 32 Comments

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    it is amazing to me that before the MacBook Air - all laptops were huge, heavy beasts with a ton of ports that

    Posted 3 years ago on Dell XPS 15 (2017) Review: Your Portable Workstation Has Arrived – 25 Comments

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    My father bought a iPad Pro 10.5. In the past, I’ve tried to use an iPad 3 and iPad mini 1 at work, and fail

    Posted 3 years ago on Rethinking the iPad Pro as a Laptop Replacement – 91 Comments

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    I have used desktop software on an iPad - through various forms of desktop emulation. And the experience is te

    Posted 3 years ago on When in comes to tablets and computers, Apple has no strategy – 50 Comments

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    the sad part about this is that Microsoft to have a living room solution. After being in his space before eve

    Posted 3 years ago on And It Just Doesn’t Work – 136 Comments

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    I just wish I always had a choice. I just grabbed a windows 10 laptop because I was running somewhere. I turne

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    Stable operating systems are for systems is for sissies. Live on the edge! I'm sure James Bond always ins

    Posted 3 years ago on Apple Releases iOS 11 Developer Beta 2 – 20 Comments

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    In reply to MikeGalos:For me it is the inability to run two legacy programs - 1 Citrix receiver runs but the U

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    In reply to Bats:I absultely couldn't do my job as a physician with an iPad Pro. My wife couldn't do

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    I'd love mouse support - but for me, the feature that I think would work best is Nebi saw in a Microsoft

    Posted 3 years ago on Understanding What Productivity Looks Like on an iPad Pro – 59 Comments

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    I believe that the natural language UI is the UI of the future. What is interesting to me is that Apple saw th

    Posted 3 years ago on Samsung Opens Up Bixby Early Access for Galaxy S8 Users in the U.S. – 6 Comments

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    I think the OSes of he future will be like "mobile" OSes - with all apps coming from curated stores (to preven

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    At work I went from the MacBook Air to the 2016 MacBook Pro. The new pro is mich more angular than the air, an

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Surface Pro (2017) First Impressions – 32 Comments

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    Fantastic article! 1) I totally agree that for most of us this will not replace our computers. My father bough

    Posted 3 years ago on Apple iPad Pro 10.5 First Impressions: The Post PC World Isn’t Here Yet – 69 Comments

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    In reply to Luka Pribanić:For $500 though this is an amazing amount of gaming power. For me, the added comple

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    What did people think about the end of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 when Star Lord got a Zune? Everythin

    Posted 3 years ago on Everything Must Go: Original Zune – 44 Comments

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    In reply to scottib62:How was using it? Zune music pass doesn't exist, can your groove music pass work, o

    Posted 3 years ago on Everything Must Go: Original Zune – 44 Comments

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    In reply to Jeroen Haegebaert:So that leaves out non-windows 10 PCs, Mac, as well as Linux. I wonder if they a

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Just Made All Your Minecraft Dreams Come True – 25 Comments

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    In reply to MikeGalos:Linux is a modern OS that is used today. It isn't fair to compare it to historical

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Just Made All Your Minecraft Dreams Come True – 25 Comments

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    In reply to SvenJ:what is wonderful about iPod is that is referra back to the Apple product before the iMac. I

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Announces Xbox One X, Coming November 7th – 25 Comments

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    Did they announce a VR story? PS 4 has something thar demos well and runs on the old PS 4. I don't know

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Announces Xbox One X, Coming November 7th – 25 Comments

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    I'm worried about the price. The problem when they were released was the Xbox was $100 more but it came w

    Posted 3 years ago on Xbox One X to Debut at $499 – 47 Comments

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    I just can't believe that emulation - which in my experience is always a little slower and janky- on an A

    Posted 3 years ago on Intel Threatens to Sue Qualcomm Over Windows 10 – 84 Comments

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    In reply to Locust Infested Orchard Inc.:My wife is a professional photographer who uses adobe photoshop and L

    Posted 3 years ago on Apple One-Ups Microsoft With New iPad Pro, Pencil – 62 Comments

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    It's funny, we own PlayStation VR, but never use it. I think it looks really cool, but I am an old man wi

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft Will Not Show Off Xbox VR at E3 – 14 Comments

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    I do not own either, and have only played with the iPad Pro in an Apple Store and surface pro and surface stud

    Posted 3 years ago on Apple One-Ups Microsoft With New iPad Pro, Pencil – 62 Comments

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    I wonder how many Surface pro and surface book buys really wanted a tablet with pen or bought them because it

    Posted 3 years ago on Apple iPad Pro (2017) Preview – 46 Comments

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    I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't make this easy. Hard drives fail, and if there isn't a

    Posted 3 years ago on Thinking About Windows 10 File History – 67 Comments

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    In terms of going back in time and seeing what could have happened. I wonder what could have happened if they

    Posted 3 years ago on I am angry at Paul for discouraging Microsoft from trying something different with phones – 79 Comments

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    I've always thought that virtual assistants is an interesting miss for Apple. They clearly saw the potent

    Posted 3 years ago on Google Home Hints at Our Ambient Computing Future – 25 Comments

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    Apple was the computer in ththe classroom during my childhood in the 80s. I don't see how that slowed the

    Posted 3 years ago on Apple Makes an Education Push Of Its Own – 36 Comments

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    I have USB-C on some MacBooks and love them. I can't wait for everything to be USB-c. The dongle thing wa

    Posted 3 years ago on USB-C is a mess! – 21 Comments

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    what I think is interesting about this space is why isn't Apple there. When Apple bought Beats I assumed

    Posted 3 years ago on Here Comes the Harmon Kardon Invoke – 30 Comments

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    In reply to James Wilson:Most people I read say Apple made a mistake removing the headphone jack and having on

    Posted 3 years ago on Windows 10 S: The Fine Print – 91 Comments

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    This is another terrible name. Windows RT was a terrible product because people did not indertand what the wer

    Posted 3 years ago on Windows 10 S: The Fine Print – 91 Comments

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    In reply to siko:Especially if Apple really does kill the MacBook Air. There are lots of people who love that

    Posted 3 years ago on Hands-On with Surface Laptop: Yes, It’s Gorgeous – 60 Comments

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    In reply to siko:i plug in a lot more, but have found that a hub works great. I can plug in power, and all my

    Posted 3 years ago on Hands-On with Surface Laptop: Yes, It’s Gorgeous – 60 Comments

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    In reply to Waethorn:I'm still waiting for Atari Force to fly down and ask me to join the team. Someday!h

    Posted 3 years ago on Hands-On with Surface Laptop: Yes, It’s Gorgeous – 60 Comments

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    In what world is a thousand dollar laptop for education? I don't know what schools Nadel sends his kids t

    Posted 3 years ago on Hands-On with Surface Laptop: Yes, It’s Gorgeous – 60 Comments

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    Another danger of the surface laptop, is that it might expose the weakness in the 2-1 market. I may be wrong,

    Posted 3 years ago on Surface Laptop: A Contrary View – 118 Comments

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    I believe this is a founder effect. Because of the poor launch the initial sales were 2 to 1. Now because of t

    Posted 3 years ago on PS4 Maintains Lead Over Xbox One, and That’s OK – 24 Comments

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    I am worried about HP and all the OEMs. Although PC sales were finally up in 2016 profits continued to fall la

    Posted 3 years ago on HP’s New Pavilions Bring Premium PC Features to the Masses – 14 Comments

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    It felt with Windows 8 and 10 Microsoft was ignoring the PC gamers. Which always seemed foolish, because they

    Posted 3 years ago on Windows 10 Tip: Improve Gaming Performance with Game Mode – 12 Comments

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    I still do not understand the logic in releasing so much about a future product this much in advance. Are they

    Posted 3 years ago on Xbox Takes Technological Leadership Over PlayStation with Project Scorpio – 79 Comments

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    1) Why did this take so long to build? Apple has had a PC to Mac for years. Even if it doesn't lead to mo

    Posted 3 years ago on Microsoft’s Mac to Surface Assistant Leaks, is Pulled – 8 Comments

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    I don't believe that Microsoft can build devices it sells itself and sell an operating system which it se

    Posted 3 years ago on HoloLens News is Just the Latest Evidence of Microsoft’s Real Focus (Premium) – 25 Comments

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    HTC One M8 for Windows (Verizon)

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    Nokia Lumia Icon (Verizon)

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    Nokia Lumia 930

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    Nokia Lumia 830

    Posted 3 years ago on Everything Must Go: More Phones (Updated) – 658 Comments

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    I think this is a good thing. Yes the OS should be able to do it, but it doesn't. My son and I built a cheap c

    Posted 3 years ago on Windows Insiders Will Get Game Mode This Week – 17 Comments

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    It makes you wonder if there is any success in mobile except for Apple and Google. Cyanogen seem to give hope

    Posted 4 years ago on RIP, Cyanogen – 13 Comments

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    I think the most amazing thing you can say about Windows 10 is that it actually increased Desktop Marketshare

    Posted 4 years ago on 2016 Was a Monster of a Year for Windows 10 – 45 Comments

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    I think Apple just what they wanted from the Samsung lawsuit. They proved that they were the most creative and

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