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derylmccarty
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For those of us who are of more mundane and plebian tastes, I was and will be smitten with anything Scott Bric
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I could not hazard a guess what the 'right' numbers should be for AMZN...but 2.9% seems low. But recall that
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I went through the same thinking process when I got the Laptop 4. How am I going to live without a couple of
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Both ATT and Verizon options appear in the MSFT store ordering along with old sim etc.
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Unfortunately, the 449 issues also torched my windows sign-in app. Neither the camera nor the use of my pin w
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Well, I have to admit that this is the first time that I have truly bricked a PC, and I bricked my Laptop 4 i7
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I am with crunchyfrog. I have owned 'em all and have settled on the LT4 (plugged into a monitor and a Dock 2)
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does the print spooler issue mean only the printer (laser or the old dot matrix) or does it also mean PDF prin
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Same as mclark2112 on my Pro X...smooth and so far glitchless.
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Paul,You and your newest Premium guy jj, are on a good path here. Win11 is going to be just fine and the TPM
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The Grease comment....Brad you are so fired.
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"It's just a movie" - what? Perhaps there is a class with which we lucky husbands are unfamiliar, where
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Paul and BradYour words and asynchronously my dollars are saying exactly the same thing. I am a Surface nutjo
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In reply to wright_is: yep, which is my point about the current costs of logistics and communications. If wha
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In reply to Chris_Kez: I fully understand the your point. But your expamples are what does that and virtual
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In reply to richfrantz: Strangely, I WAS with Paul and you from about 5 yo to my mid-20s. All because I took
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Paul, naps are now a bit of heaven not a punishment for 5 years olds. Learn to love them, then get more effic
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HB Paul, PEN PEN PEN, pls. But I am old too. But the Pro x or small Surface laptop taking notes in excel in
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Win64 vs Win128. The non-mathematical comparison twixt Bill Gates' 640k and your 16 exabytes comment is
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Surface Duo question that you may want to look at first and then answer next week. What are your experiences
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Okay, I am going against the flow. I listened and read Paul/Brad, Mary Jo, and even our Windows Central frien
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I'm with you. I can't seem to get used to a laptop KB for long periods. A couple of days in a hotel
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Paul, what helped me at 75 is a sleep number (with a high number) and the nightly sore back/hip just doesn
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In reply to wright_is: aha! So with your comment about wind, I re-read the 8G standards and in paragraph 4,6
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Paul, good posts today. But when I got to your post under Thin Clients to ErichK I had to snicker at:"And tha
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humm, slight difference on my SB3 twixt Paul's pic clarity and brad's..in full screen. it is like t
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As I recall you got an SB3 a week or two early. Are you going to be doing a review, or is Paul? Or did I jus
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Will (555): Even further back. I spent two years in the mid-80s accumulating $2500 in cash to buy the finest
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I am retired military...way retired. So at some risk (75). Went to the commissary yesterday for the weekly s
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to a_seeker. I cannot over-emphasize Paul's comments about pillowed batteries on the SB. My SB1 pillowe
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I also bought the Pro X for exactly what you described...a middle ground tablet that I can sit on the couch fo
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Meaning SB3 or some of the other devices promised for the Spring delayed?
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Good news, Paul! You are evincing signs of vast accumulations of birthdays not income.Seriously there does co
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righty tighty, lefty loosey
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Check under the "hood" (lap stand) and see if there is an SDXC slot please.
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I agree that the Surface Pen is already compatible, but not easily carried around in such a device. (Nice wha
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It is probably not in the specs for tomorrow's announcement, but if/when the LTE version of Surface Pro o
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And will it include the new AX Wi-Fi ?
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consider the "larger version" foldable as a school device, not K-12, but higher ED. It would resemble a book
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In reply to BeckoningEagle: My first service too in 1987. It did not work well during the day, but when the
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WP7Mango,I learned to program first using FORTRAN IV. Pretty basic, small “b,” but it did teach me on
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Two things: if you time your business right will you be able to drive down to Paris and catch a world cup gam
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In reply to craisin: Piker - my first was in Fortran IV in 1966, with my almost 74 year old fingers only NOW
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Great idea, eagerly awaiting installment one.We can't know where we are going until we learn where we
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In reply to will: Except for my Yeti coffee mug, there is little on my home (and only) desk that isn't Su
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I am in the (very very) slim minority. I only use Edge and IE before that and did so without a doubt. I was
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Two errors jgoraya: TI-8X should read TI-(3 through 8)X and 90s should read mid to late 70s. Ahh, but did I
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When Jeff Bezos reads this, what is to prevent him from buying or coding a "cast" app a la Audible and use the
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Truth in advertising: I am a Surface nutcase. I bought (on the first day in each case) direct from MSFT with
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/sarc IF the 100 or 1000 HoloLens (1 or 2) US Army contract objectors want to cause trouble, they are going a
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build ## is 500 number change. 18836 up from 18334
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sigh, one eats McNuggets because of the BBQ sauce. No one even knows what is under the fried breading.
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Good discussion...but question: could Intel actually be saying that they fluffed it with the market timing an
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Humm, I signed up. I have been doing Insider or Beta for MSFT since 98 and Me, so I am aware of risks; but th
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(sarcasm alert) I know, for most of us it was hard to tell if Paul had an opinion about Edge/Chrome one way or
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hum, what many of you seem to be saying is that WaaS is not Windows as a Service, but Windows as a Sandboxi -
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In reply to wright_is: geez, and here I thought that I was the only one on earth who thought Windows 2000 was
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Ok, got the Amazon notice last night that my pre-order was available so I downloaded the Kindle version, paid
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FYI - Panos Panay is a Cypriot, Panos is a first name therefore...
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In reply to brad-sams: got it! already on pre-order from Amazon (Kindle). Technical question...when you do
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Since I am a nut job for Surface products as an original purchaser of all except pro 4, 5 and 6 (which got usu
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Paul - there are not enough dittos in the English language to express my agreement. Thanks for the reminder t
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I wonder if the Chinese "spy chip" fiasco will affect Chinese-manufactured Lenovo's sales in Q4.
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Damned good Feedback discussion! As a long time Insider and a long time Windows 98 and subsequent Beta tester
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dumb question 468.3. Brad, when you had the headset on and were fiddling with the noise cancelling features,
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About darned time...now about the 10nm? MSFT and Intel, here is the short-term goal: 2019 H2, SB3, i9, 5GHz
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In reply to navarac: My O365 borked on startup and first run of 252. After three tries to open Outlook and wi
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WIP - I've been an Insider since Oct 14 officially but a beta tester for Windows since and including W98.
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Paul, as you can see from the comments, you have hit a chord. So, perhaps it may be worth it to revisit the p
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Google vs Amazon vs ?? Recall that Sears, using the epitome of the tech of the day (paper catalogs) was liste
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Thanks, Paul. Personally, a timely article. While I am not much of an Apple fan - exception: the Apple II GS
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Have the same problem with my SB2 256. Hold button for 10-12 seconds and nada. sometime doing it a second ti
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First the caveats: I am a Surface and Microsoft fanboy! (Actually, I am closer to an Surface nut job and firm
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Paul - As you might expect my "updates" looked the same as yours. But the obvious duplicates in numbering, da
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I come from a long military background. What we discovered over several millennia across every continent is t
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Paul, okay, I fully admit I am waaay retro...old fashioned may even be closer to the mark..."dinosauric" even
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In reply to jr.flynn: Let me posit two possible reasons for the "unexciting" Build 2018 presentations. ONE i
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In reply to mhanch: Are you telling lies, because if you are they are WOPRs. BTW we cannot call it Skynet a
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In reply to Daekar: Or worse: Shanghai...from which you can't escape the risk, but in Washington risk is
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In reply to ianhead:Cat people object, but are willing to compromise. 1803 (RS4) is Poodle, 1810 (RS5) is Aby
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Agree 100%, in fact it's a primary reason I stick with SP3, SB1 and SB2. At home with the SB2 as my prim
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Dammit Brad, this article made me think and on a beautiful, warm, rare sunny day just 30 miles from Redmond.
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The immediate advantage I see to a USB-C form-factor Surface power supply at this juncture is as a second sour
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In reply to maethorechannen: Concur, EXCEPT, it's only the "wrong" team to some (mostly the media and Pa
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I did have the "issue" (problem, no so much) but the correction using Power Shell worked the first time. I di
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Me too, me too! (The old kind of "me too" not the new #metoo). Paul is the only internet content for which I
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Dammit, Paul! I hate it when we agree 100% because that makes me a curmudgeon too. But the good part is that
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In reply to dallasnorth40: you are "write", Word just works, but there are times when I yearn for a simple ve
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In my case I can envision two personal digital assistants names: a standard "Yo, Cortano" (my high frequency
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In reply to mattbg: I agree, tripping is not an issue. But accidentally taking my SB off the desk to go on t
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Nail on the head, Paul. I am also one of those MSFT nutcases who absolutely trusts Surface Products and Windo
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In reply to Nickel:Strangely I figured that out later on the same day I wrote the comment and I am a day one b
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In reply to Nickel:Can't wait to order and get this 15 inch jewel. I had hoped that this next version wo
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I got the same response a couple of hours ago, then took a nap and am back tried again and 17017.1000 is insta
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Paul, your and Brad's mission, should you choose to accept it, is to: (a) interpret the language of the
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In reply to edboyhan:Haven't got the color streaks, then again I use an external AOC screen for most of t
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In reply to mbsnl: you got that right brother. An SB with LTE (optional), thunderbolt, performance base, i7-8
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In the military, where I spent 30 years, there is no room for lying since someone's son or daughter is at
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I have owned SP1, SP2, SP3 and SB1 all without mechanical quality issues, save one. As I reported to Paul one
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In reply to wright_is:and in old English no less. I am impressed. Paulo (for another week) already sold me o
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Geez, Paulo. Who can concentrate on your electronic, iOS or VPN rambling when your food pics are out of this
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Good article. I fully agree that we insiders could help 10S or most any other software by using it and report
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Some great points, Paul. Am currently in the "looking seriously" mode and the Laptop is looking to edge out t
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for hrlngrv. I fully understand your point, and I could have been clearer in my writing. ORLA is a predictive
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Agree with Darek...reparability is not part of my computer buying decision. Certainly reliability is, but tha
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MSFT, IMHO, is and will "always be" a software company. Software sells, devices come and go. Where hardware be
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In reply to red.radar: What's "ink"..LOL
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I am listening to Build live, none of the presentations thus far shows any fear. They are stepping out and goi
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In reply to Narg: I also think that the Surface Connect is not a flawed product. I like the mag hold, especia
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Agree with several of you that the SB is the finest computer I have owned. I do use the tablet and pen a fai
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I see these commercials as a continuation of the Mac vs PC ads of, what, a 1000 computer years ago: an a
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In reply to tremblaymax: More than "just to be fair", the build quality and feel of the SB is the best t
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Paul is about right. MSFT seems to have Apple pixel envy. But is that a bad thing? No.
Go ba
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You hit the nail on the head. I love my SB. Alas I am one of those weird folks who did not have al
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Paul,
You covered the “whether a Surface phone” or not pretty fairly. There are in fact plus