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Re:Introducing Surface Laptop by uranian on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:42PM (#14249864)
The bad news is they're targeting students. Who wants to see his children being locked into MS Windows software by school? Besides, we just found out Windows 10 has almost complete control over your system and calls home, now sending your kids private data as a bonus!

I would never accept my kids using a device like this on school. Schools are just ignorant and stupid if they make a deal for these laptops with MS. Schools should go for linux and open source, more educational as well.

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Re:Introducing Surface Laptop by my123 on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:45PM (#14249885)
You talk as if Chromebooks with Google Apps for Education don't send everything, including browser history, to the mothership.
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Re:Introducing Surface Laptop by nxpnsv on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @06:24PM (#14251178)
I do not think that was advocating chromebooks as an alternative.
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Re:Introducing Surface Laptop by JustSomeNobody on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @08:22AM (#14255049)
They didn't say anything about Chromebooks. They said Linux.
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Re:Introducing Surface Laptop by 72deluxe on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @07:04PM (#14251499)
Out of interest, how is it more educational? I had a fun time educating myself back in the day as I tried to get X to work with my video card. I jest!

In all truth I suspect there are millions of system administrators who have never even used 'Lye-nucks' so attempting to get students (who need support) to use Linux devices will probably never happen (unless the admin/IT staff is extremely pro-Linux) or the school wishes to spend money retraining their staff.

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Re:Introducing Surface Laptop by mixmastamyk on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @02:32AM (#14253500)
Whoa, blast from the past.
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Re:Introducing Surface Laptop by skybrian on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @08:02PM (#14251903)
You say "locked in" like they can't use another computer. (For example, getting a Raspberry Pi to hack on, if they're so inclined.)
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