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Surface Pro (first gen) By JH_Radio, 3 months ago 7 Replies Forum: Microsoft Category: Hardware	JH_Radio	Microsoft	Hardware	3 months ago	7 Replies
Windows 10 on older devices By JH_Radio, 8 months ago 11 Replies Forum: Microsoft Category: Windows	JH_Radio	Microsoft	Windows	8 months ago	11 Replies
Universal keyboards By JH_Radio, 1 year ago 6 Replies Forum: General Discussion Category: Hardware	JH_Radio	General Discussion	Hardware	1 year ago	6 Replies

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@fourbadcats I tried to reply to you but when I click it, Jaws does not show me an edit box from which I can r

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I haven't done a total reinstall since XP. Since I've started using Security Essentials and Malwarebytes, not

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My screen reader (JAWS) won't work in S mode or on WOA either. When I asked them about this some while back,

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I'd never even consider such a PC (not that I need or want a laptop right now as I have more than one sitting

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For us, it'd have to be less than 15 minutes. 5 minute. empty to full. Until you can fill up the electric ca

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hey, you can post a reply to a particular person now accessibly with JAWS (which is my screen reader) using E

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if a user is on a iPhone and they want to do something in Kindle such as buy a book, they can't. Right?

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Why do you guys choose sonos over Bluesound? I've never done anything like home audio like this before.

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Do people who are working really wanna see all of this?

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I'm one of those that is happy that google tracks me. But if I can pay to get rid of it so they don'

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For me, if I'm goin to see adds, and tracking me is gonna make me see adds I actually might be intereste

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How many regular people would even notice? but then MS isn't goin after regular people with those prices

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I'm pretty sure that Nuance made the screen reader Talks for Synbian phones. that was a long time

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For me number one is a headphone jack above literally everything else. I depend on that jack for use 24/7. It

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Thre ggoes the best audio DAC. MQA DAC too! This is very sad news for anyone who cares about audio. I guess

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woah wait if I baught this could I use it on Windows 7 and 10? the one from Microsoft that is. It'ed sure

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But can't you only get an AMD version as a consumer?

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My desktop is a broadwell chip, (I think that was the last one that was 22NM before it went to 14?)

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You'd think the battery would learn your habits and be able to give some kinda claim, which doesn't

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So if you want a BT speakers which sounds good, you could get this and use it as a BT speaker forever? Or may

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I wonder if I had an advantage of buying what I use before 2020? This stuff doesn't die.

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Nothing for consumer. sad.

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Hmmm. s why Europe and not the US?

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I've used Tidal and Amazon HD both. For me amazon HD really works best with the Alexa devices. Apple

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I've heard Spotify music discovery is pretty good. Now that it will offer lossless I'll t

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I have tuns of Vinyl. 45s and 33s. gotten from my uncle. from an old girlfriend's mom. from my&

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when they release the product called Something, they can market it with the slogan "Where there was Nothing,

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Hey Paul. What category of Ethernet cable are you using? to get your 300/30 MB, you'd need Cat 5E or

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So the original dock will work with the first gen Pro? Can you actually get these anywhere or are you looki

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Awesome, thanks so much for your help, guys!

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Surface Pro (first gen)

Anyone know what is the largest SD card this device will support? Also, if I ever decide to go this route, does the new Microsoft doc work with the first gen pro or not? I'm pretty sure it doesn't... This thing still works great for what its use case is, and I see no reason to replace it. Its the 64GB model with 4GB of ram and I have the power type cover for it. Have had it since it first came out.

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Buy it now is two clicks for me. buy it now and place order. And the A lady shopping by voice which I tried

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The thing about any new physical media is that everything gets remastered. You can hear difference in the mix

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What is next. 3NM? 1NM? how much smaller can these chips actually get?

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Also If you get a PC with an HD, then even get a SATA-based SSD (If you can't use M.2 or 3), even that

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How do i watch this thing? I wasn't around when you did the AMA.

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You can sell to declutter, but you can't buy stuff from there, to my knowledge.

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What are your opinions of Microsoft making arm chips? If they get X86 going and the performance issues fixed

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For us, if you can't charge the car in 5 minutes to completely full, then its a non starter.

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About damn time! So the biggest question then becomes what is the oldest processor line that will get this 4 y

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I like the idea of having a premium hub for all of this stuff. I'd be curious about Pixel imperfect to

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I'm on a grandfathered plan that isn't provisioned for 5G, plus no Verizon 5G in PA. So I'm g

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I could care less. For me ease of use is the name of the game. but then I do not care about Comcast having t

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SO does this also mean that Edge and other chromium-based browsers support get extended, too?

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I don't see MS removing the ability to run windows 10 on older devices any time soon. I mean not like you

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Hey Paul, you did an oops..."The Pixel 4a (4G) costs $499"I'm sure you meant 5G there.

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And Sony still has a headphone jack! Or rather they brought it back

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That's quite a bit of phones to update. Good for them for support for older handsets.

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Yay! And for those that are DeafBlind, maybe this means you won't have to carry yet one more device as in

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Double apple? you know Brad wrote this report. :) i'm sure he meant apple and Google in the first senten

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There's one reason I'm with Amazon over anything else. line out jack on the dot. it not only is for

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Choice is good. I don't think of apple when I go shopping for audio. I suppose if you were there and had

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Ah yes Thanks for that, I knew there was another project but couldn't think of the name. Project Athena&n

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Maybe I missed something, but what is the Intel Evo platform?

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You're probably right on that. But if you are hell bent on a surface, then they're trying to cover y

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No kids in the house. 15 minutes to charge is too long. We'd need a SUV, and some real concern about ope

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Oh yeah and being a music guy Brad, you can't beat Mark Levinson audio. Only in Lexus. Pare that with Tid

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Until you can charge the car up within 5 minutes like you can gas up, and there are as many charging statio

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We have a 2018 Sony TV. but not sure if it'll get 11 or not.

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No 3.5MM headphone jack. I depend on this. 24/7. I may have gotten my first and last Samsung device with the G

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There's one reason why somebody would want a pro over the iPad air. bigger screen for the 12 inch version

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The only two things I pay for is iCloud storage $2.99 and Apple News Plus. There's nothing for me here. I

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I'm no gamer but who's gona download 100 games? Plus if that is local storage you'd need a lot

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So android 11 supports folding screnes. Its not as if MS is the only phone player in the folding space, so i

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Data I'll never use.

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Wow that old? I tried to put it on Dell Inspiron E-1705 from 2006, and that was a no go two years ago even

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Windows 10 on older devices

Newest desktop I have is a Intel Core i7-6950X. Oldest laptop runs a Core I7, 2nd gen. I could either upgrade to Windows 8.1 or Windows 10. But does anyone have any idea how long Windows 10 will be supported on this older hardware? There still seems to be no clear answer on this. Like will it get to be 2021, and I won't be able to put the newest Windows 10 on the stuff I've already got? Thanks all!

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I have zero devices with USB C other then my Samsung Galaxy S10+. For me having devices with USB-A ports is a

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It probably doesn't help that Amazon is under antitrust scrutiny.

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You know, I know most readers of this site would probably use the higher end stuff, but it'd be nice if

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Paul, your error made me laugh...But the arrival of competition for TikTik may actually scare off Microsoft,&

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The only downfall is those that want a flagship processor and won't be able to get it from Google. But th

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SO a thought from a consumers prospective. doesn't this make things easier as a consumer? I wouldn't

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Is it possible to transfer all of that stuff to Amazon Music Unlimited HD or Tidal? This way one or the other

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I have an unlocked Samsung with a Verizon SIM, and it gets the security updates pretty much the same day Goo

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Paul,are they working on simplifying their line over time? Like the 300 you mentioned, is it NOS ? No wonde

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As a consumer, Amazon is just easy and works. I'd hate to think of what it'd be like to have an aco

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maybe MS and Sonos will then drop support after a year making it a brick.

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Hey Paul, typo...For example, why doesn’t Surface Duo have [insert your favorite pet peeve missing feature;

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Hey Paul, a typo...Apple removed Fortnite form... You meant from I'm sure.

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I only care about Apple news Plus. I will never use any of the other services other then iCloud storage, which

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Sounds like the only way you can fix it is to start off by replacing as many cables as you can. Replacing all

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Them and Sony. Gone. One thing that Lenovo has going for them is that they at least have smartphones and can

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There's one screen reader on the MAC and iOS. Voiceover. its that or nothing. But this makes sense with a

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You meant Note 20 , not Note 10, right Paul? I think you oops here.

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Wouldn't it be great if iOS and android could unify this? Yeah, I'll keep dreaming. Apple would neve

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Google Play Music was the best at its radio station feature in my opinion. I also love the UI. Amazon Music U

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I believe the 3A used EMMC. Can somebody confirm or deny this? Will the 4A use at least UFS 2.0 for storage? E

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Say what you will about the iPhone SE, but at least the performance is there. What good does any phone do if

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Paul can't get 5G in PA. Nor can I for that matter, so i'm not sure what good it'd do to test

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Then TikTok can come back just like Nokia did.

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And here's a bigger question. If they actually do this, will the big tech companies just do one thing f

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Oh I see. Foxcon doesn't make chips, that's why it wouldn't be them.

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So right now Intel makes all the chips in house? So say when the 7NM does ship, they could use somebody like

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I don't have my 6+ phone anymore, and honestly I had no idea performance was even a problem until I hea

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Speaking of 2FA, I'm all for that. the problem is where to go on each site you are a part of to set it u

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First Channel Daily? :)

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I was at the Microsoft store in Orlando, there was nobody there at all. I looked at surface laptop II I think

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Yes MS has both Intel and AMD. I believe AMD is for the consumer offerings where as you can only get the In

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Here's the thing. MS hasn't lost enough people to do better yet. Its big in business. What needs to

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Or will apple keep bootcamp alive, and even their cheapest arm based offering will be able to run Windows go

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One thing that MS does have over apple? You can get a PC a lot cheaper than $700. Also MS runs on older hardw

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I was about to say this sounds like a great way to emphasize teams and kill Skype in the process.

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iMessage. Google can't get their messaging together to save their lives. Plus you got other android maker

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We're lucky if we print once a month. Last time we baught a printer we baught a lazer. the problem is th

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I'm blind and so have an S10+ here. and let me tell you the in display finger print reader, for one thing

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This design is only for web, not for apps on mobile, right?

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iPad OS now uses the desktop browser Web Kit engine rather than the mobile SKU.

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Sure. This was too important to not share with the world, premium or not.

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Had on Fox 29 news this morning. The thing of it is, they say you can be positive for this thing without show

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Using W Windows 7 and 8.1 thru January 2023 is where those other 500000 people may be.

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Thing is, the big get bigger because that's how capitalism works. While having the government be involve

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They could charge a small amount for these voices... Yeah I liked his voice too.

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And even if you disagree with Thurrott covering it, everybody else is gonna. and yeah they do have to cover it

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I use Alexa 2nd gen dots because they have line out jacks that I can plug into things like my audio mixer. Fo

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Its a RAE " (Rough around the edges" release. Because why not?

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This sounds so strange to me. I'm used to thinking Ok if I need a document , open word. If I want to chec

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I've found (and I dunno if this is every site or not), but CNET does audo vids, but if you enter reader m

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we pay for a cable subscription. One thing my parents are not is super technical. So having Netflix , etc on t

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I'm curious how Tidal lossless (my prefered music service) survives. I know Amazon Music Unlimited HD (

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I have Windows 7 on most of my PCs. Although having run Surface Pro 1 with Windows 10 I'm sure all of my

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Universal keyboards

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I've noticed it depends on the area I'm in. I live just outside of Northeast Philly, so am in rang

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I like my SE. As a blind person that uses Voiceover, and a person with smaller hands, I honestly don't

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What about Android One? Nokia embraces this platform. and if you're gonna go stock android, isn't th

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I use Windows 7 on any PC that I care about. I only have Windows 10 on a secondary PC, an older moddel that I

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As a blind user with a pretty bad hearing impairment, i can tell you that with ctrl+Windows+enter, it will act

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Think you oops here...Pros:• Fastest wireless charging in the marketCons• No wireless charging

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Beginning? I think it is already a train wreck.

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Oops? you have a typo... This is something I’ve down many dozens of times.

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I already subscribe to Tidal Lossless. am waiting for Qobuz to come to the US. Of course, it would

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Excellent! Should make 64-audio, Campfire Audio, the Sure SE line, Focal and Audeze sound really really

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You know, I keep thinking with all of the problems I've heard abot over the years with Windows 10,

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Pentium Gold 4415Y? with that kinda processor for that price, your just paying for the microsoft name no?

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For someone like my dad, who only uses this thing for web browsing, accessing his bank, and email, 4 GB

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I agree with you. The stereo immaging you ar gonna get from two speakers that close together in a phone

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Although I want a headphone jack, so maybe nevermind what I just said.

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Still no Verizon support huh? Guess this will all have to wait until 5G really becomes a thing, and we get rid

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Personally, I'm glad to see no adds. if more sites had options to pay for those that want too, or feel it

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Ok, I'm reading all of these things that people do. Is a normal really gonna go thru all this? Doubt it.

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Forgot to mention: I paid that 300 in Nov 2014. today, this HP would probably be cheaper still It came

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its amazing. I got HP ELITEBOOK 8560P Core I7 Second Gen, 8GB ram, 120GB SSD. built like a tank, but it has fo

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