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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by Osmium on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @11:53AM (#10339740)
Absolutely. Lovely to see some innovation from Microsoft that's made it out of labs (the hinge alone looks fantastic). I'd be concerned about duplication of components between the screen and the keyboard though? I can't quite figure out from their website, but it looks like the keyboard part has the dedicated graphics and battery, and the rest (and more battery) is in the screen?

I completely understand why Apple doesn't put touch-sensitive screens in their laptops, but it's such a shame. I'd love to be able to use a pen with a MacBook like this. The iPad Pro would be ideal except it lacks a proper Unix terminal, so that's pretty much out of the question for me (ssh doesn't count).

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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by IanDrake on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @12:26PM (#10340033)
>the hinge alone looks fantastic

The hinge is the only thing that bothers me. Close the book and it seems like you'll have a thin area of metal on metal grinding on itself and end up with a rather thick profile for putting it in a laptop bag.

Also, at one point they showed the internal structure of the hinge and it looked like the Yoga's hinge that's covered with some sort of articulating plastic (god I hope not).

I'm impressed with everything else though.

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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by vinceyuan on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @02:53AM (#10344577)
I agree with you. If you open the lid, everything looks very good. But if you close the lid, it looks weird.
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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by codeulike on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @12:04PM (#10339859)
Yes, would be interesting to know how much battery is in the screen and how long it lasts when its detatched. Perhaps not that long? Maybe thats why they call the screen a clipboard.
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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by sonnyp on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @01:25PM (#10340600)
Probably, also the screen doesn't have any port.
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