Microsoft tried the Apple route on making changes with Windows 8. How that turned out, we all know. They are w
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The top buttons are for the Pointing stick, not the touchpad.
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> Dead. Can get from the Store.Oof, I hope not. I don't want to get Dead.
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The reason for the touchpad shift is that the touchpad on this machine is centered to the keyboard, not the ov
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In reply to sevenacids:Google "ThinkPad X12 PSREF spec sheet" - it explicitly states the 3:2 aspect ratio.
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In reply to RobertJasiek:A couple of years ago Lenovo had an issue of BIOS bricking with the ThinkPad X1 Extre
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Small correction: 1920 x 1280 is a 3:2 resolution - the equivalent 16:10 resolution is 1920 x 1200. Like the o
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The 1366x768 option is solely there for penny-pinching corporate customers, who buy these units in bulk for th
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In reply to djross95:Dell's premium productivity laptops (Latitude 7000 series) still use 16:9 screens.On
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Also a good way to kill it off.
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In reply to melich13:That sounds like Windows Phone all over again though.The name "Windows" just creates an e
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Soooo, without Win32, this seems like it will be DOA. Nice work Microsoft.
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As a long time Opera user, I am seriously thinking about jumping ship. They have recently started to incorpora
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In reply to paul-thurrott:The keyboard actually should be different, as Lenovo has reduced the key-travel from
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I wonder when Acer will learn not to put a 5 row keyboard without function keys into their high-end machines.
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Too many cooks in this kitchen. USB is a common standard and every USB developer company involved needs to agr
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I absolutely agree. If Apple really wants to be a successful content creating company, they should use their c
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Apple still has not figured out how to make battery cases that aren't ugly. Amazing industrial design! /s
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2019 could be a big year for PC manufacturers with YoY growth, thanks to the PC replacement cycle triggered by
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In reply to jimchamplin:Intel has not released 9th Gen mobile processors yet.
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In reply to gardner:I have no doubt that Apple will continue to use Intel chips on the MacBook Air. Maybe they
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> But the question remains. Why?Because the new MacBook Air was designed to be powered by the first generat
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> Also, it’s an Amber Lake generation chipset, which means it’s new as of August and not a year-old des
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I think the usage of the i5 Y series chip can be explained with Intel's failure to deliver 10 nm CPU on t
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> The new MacBook Air comes with Intel’s latest and greatest 8th gen Intel Core dual-core processors, mea
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3:2 screen, still a large chin bezel. What a design fail!
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In reply to shameermulji:Its the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2018 / 6th Gen.
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In reply to James_Wilson:The ThinkPad design is not bland. That would imply that there are many other laptop l
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In reply to jaredthegeek:All ThinkPads have rounded "smile shaped" keys. The only thing that different on newe
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> Aside from Gigabit Wi-Fi support, it’s not really clear if there is anything meaningfully new about the
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Qualcomm has a massive opportunity, now that Intel has effectively delayed mass-market 10 nm chips (Ice Lake)
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Another similarity with Microsoft is that Mobile is a lost cause for Lenovo. Since they bought Motorola (like
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Too bad its US only...
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Too bad its US only.
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In reply to StevenLayton:Chromebooks are crippled hardware compared with normal laptops. They have oddities l
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3:2 displays are nice. Shame to see them wasted on Chromebooks though.
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In reply to Daekar:Its a mistake to only focus on the MacBook Pro and not the rest of the laptop market.The th
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The 10 nm disaster continues. Intel hasn't been impacted by Windows on ARM yet, but its continued inabili
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In reply to jwpear:With the way things are going for Apple, it will probably be a MacBook with a big touchscre
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Apple can't truly admit that they made a mistake here. The only real alternative would be to go back to t
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In reply to ben55124:Apple's marketshare compared with Google's is laughable in the EU. Apple doesn&
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Nice to see that you reviewed a device nearly no one else reviews. These (budget business devices) are maybe t
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In reply to Trickyd:The scandals never affected ThinkPads, it was always about Lenovo's consumer machines
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One small correction: The OLED screen unfortunately isn't available anymore with this years X1 Yoga. Inst
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Too much hype. Eventually, it will run its course and people will be sick of battle-royal modes.For something
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Why have a notch when you have a bottom bezel? That's insane...
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What a horrible rip-off: Taking out the single-player campaign saves them a massive amount of development effo
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In reply to IanYates82:The X1 Carbon has a much better 1080p display than the T570. Plus, its chassis is made
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In reply to paul-thurrott:It is a Chiclet keyboard. A Chiclet keyboard is defined as a keyboard whose keys are
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I don't think that's correct. The ThinkPad 25 keyboard was said to have 1.
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Nice review, but...I don't understand your complaint about the keyboard. For one, you say that ThinkPads
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I agree. 3:2 should be used much more, it just makes more sense for many use-cases.Though the ideal solution i
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> To them, Microsoft is as relevant as Sears, AOL, or IBM.And that is what happens when Microsoft leaves th
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"The 15-inch Surface Book 2, with its gaming-class dGPU, draws so much power while gaming that the PC cannot s
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A shame you didn't get a model with the HDR screen – which appears to be one of the best laptop screens
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Android is the Windows of the Smartphone world, so it shouldn't be surprising that it runs into similar i
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Thats the great thing: Apple doesn't do the things that are logical, which gives other laptop-manufacture
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Often the tech industry seems like a herd of lemmings – Apple does something dumb and everyone follows them.
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> One of the interesting side-effects of the PC market decline, of course, is that we’re seeing fewer and
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In reply to Boots:The problem is the Detachable design with the hardware in the display - due to this, Detacha
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Nice review Paul!I do like this design, which isn't afraid to show its thickness. Love the 3:2 aspect rat
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Yes, USB C represents the future, so there is nothing wrong with using USB C on a system. But: USB C does not
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The real special feature of the Surface Laptop is the 3:2 screen, it is one of the first and so far few pure l
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A very interesting development for sure. But I am not sure if this will really "revolutionize" the market. Rem
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In reply to jwpear:The OEMs announced a lineup of cheaper Windows 10 S devices, though it seems most are not a
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The important question is: How well does this new version of Windows 10 S compete with Google ChromeOS for the
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In reply to woodward5418:The beautiful thing about Windows PCs on the one side and Android Smartphones on the
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If its supposed to be a Workstation, Microsoft should use Workstation-class GPUs (Quadro).I had hoped for a ne
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"Power is driven by the ThinkPad OneLink port, not USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 as with more modern devices."Small corr
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In reply to warren:This is one very odd model (Thinkpad 300) that was completely DOA, because it was developed
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In reply to leonzandman:It seems you have no idea how the TrackPoint works. Because its not a joystick at all.
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Does this video above possibly show a new version of the Surface Book, or is is the current one?A new Surface
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Whats damning about this is if you take the price range of Surface products into consideration. All Surface de
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In reply to dfeifer:Yes, the Onelink connector was dropped this year, so if you have Onelink docks, you should
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In reply to Polycrastinator:There is also an OLED option for the HP Spectre x360 (13") and Dell Alienware R13.
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"all portable PCs suffer from some level of light bleed"All except PCs with an OLED screen (which is still rar
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"Those who don’t want multi-touch aren’t harmed by its presence"Not completely true. There is the differen
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In reply to lvthunder:Surface Laptop isn´t extraordinarily thin, sorry. 14,5 mm, thats normal for an Ultraboo
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Form over function. Microsoft, this is Apples philosophy. You are better than this.One example for such a mind
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In reply to MikeGalos:There are thin laptops with easily replaceable motherboards.
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In reply to zorb56:A tablet is something different from a laptop. A laptop is much bigger and thicker and easi
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In reply to TallGuySE:Its strange that they constructed it this way. They could have had the Alcantera directl
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In this case, yes, the entry level machine is very limited. In the past and with other manufacturers, you were
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In reply to bbold:Not really. Only Apple and Microsoft really do this so far. And they are not the biggest PC
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In reply to Rcandelori:Mostly only from Apple. PC notebooks haven´t followed Apple here too much. Particularl
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In reply to arknu:Many other Ultrabooks such as the Dell XPS 13 or the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon still allow t
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Yawn. What a drag.A speaker for 350 $...really?The same goes for the iMac Pro for 5000 $. You thought the Surf
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In reply to fishnet37222:Hm, seems its not in the shipping version, yet. I just tried it and the transparency
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Can you turn these effects off? I do prefer the non-transparent matte look.
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In reply to JacobTheDev:Who cares about another Android phone. Its already an overcrowded market. This makes e
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Apple has been stagnant for 5 years now. Their biggest product innovation was making the iPhone bigger as a re
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This screams for a 3:2 screen with the big bottom bezel. Just like the Lenovo Yoga 910 (that one has an even b
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Another 3:2 Notebook. Nice.
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In reply to Paul Thurrott:The store-size alone seems like an insufficient data point. There is also a lot of j
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"Google and Apple, meanwhile, have larger and more engaged user bases"Apple for sure, but are you sure that is
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In reply to lvthunder:They have the iPad Pro. Of course, you and I both know that this is deemed to fail, but
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Microsoft can´t just say the platform wars are ended. They are only ended if Google and Apple end them as wel
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In reply to JudaZuk:"I just don't get who this devices is for, people that have more money then sense, an
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From a hardware point of view, the most important thing about Surface Laptop is that it uses a 3:2 display, it
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Maybe it could also be a possibility that Microsoft wants to give its OEM partners like Dell, HP and Lenovo so
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Personally, I think its rather ugly. Too shiny, too rounded as well. I can't imagine that phone not slipp
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In reply to zorb56:Take a look at the T570. I have one here as a review unit right now and its great. 4K displ
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In reply to RickEveleigh:Its always been like that on ThinkPad. But it can be changed in BIOS if you are used
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In reply to wright_is:Intel has had this tendency over the last couple of years to release less and less detai
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So we can expect even less information on new processors and the architecture-specifics? Sigh. It seems like I
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Most interesting thing about this for me is the fact that this would be a traditional Notebook-Clamshell formf
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Are you planning on testing the new X1 Carbon? Became available recently in the USA.
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Very weird device. This aims to be a laptop replacement as well, while the Yoga Book was more a companion devi
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Problem is: MS needs to take radical steps to solve this. Finally start phasing out Win32 for a start. But, th
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HTC One M8 for Windows (Verizon)
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3:2 would be absolutely great, but somehow, the PC manufacturers are very reluctant to go that direction. 16:9
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Too bad COMDEX doesn´t exist anymore, this was exactly the PC expo that described - CES minus the uninte
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Its gonna be interesting to see what impact Windows 10 on ARM might have here. Because this kinda turns the es
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In reply to ChesterChihuahua:
Yes, it is.
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In reply to Polycrastinator:
Its the new models, older preloads had some junk (though not nearly as much as co
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Glad I deleted my account 2 months ago. I also had a feeling it was somehow compromised, had some strange spam
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In reply to Paul Thurrott:
Sure, they are also my personal favorites when it comes to Lenovo. New ThinkPad mod
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In reply to krisarthur:
I have had a little hands-on with both the Spectre x360 and the Yoga 910 in a local el
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Do you plan a review of the Lenovo Yoga 910? Could be nice for a comparison between the two leading PC manufac
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These glossy-faux-chrome hinges are really disgusting looking, like they belong to a cheap toy. HP should fire
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Yes, there is no other way.
One of the good steps in the coming Windows releases will be the removal of
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"This isn’t the disaster many make it out to be"
No, it is not. However, I strongly criticize Apples app
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It is clear that Microsoft doesn't want to take a loss on hardware anymore, so I don't think its strange that
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Its already available for preorder: https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/productID.507401
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In reply to rbwatson0:
For the Wii? Don´t kid yourself... the chance that they are transferable are mini
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In reply to Chris_Kez:
They would be more expensive. 16:9 displays are standard now, so you can just get stock
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Finally! Until now, navigating the Registor Editor really was a pain in the....
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The ZDNet News is unfortunately not really true. The PC manufacturers will continue to sell Windows 7 PCs thro
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