New Surface Pro

Re:New Surface Pro by lmm on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @12:04PM (#14402362)

I still want to be able to transfer data to/from my phone (S7) and my camera. I still want to use my headset. These things are going to last for several years; as such I'm not buying a laptop without USB-A any time soon.

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Re:New Surface Pro by wooter on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @01:22PM (#14403100)

bluetooth? wifi? the future is wireless (hopefully, imo)

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Re:New Surface Pro by lmm on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @01:25PM (#14403125)

I tried a bluetooth headset but it had enough extra latency to throw me off (I play rhythm games sometimes). In theory my wifi's fast enough for copying data to/from my phone, but I don't think it offers an easy way to do that (and my camera doesn't have wifi at all).

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Re:New Surface Pro by daxelrod on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @08:39PM (#14406722)

> In theory my wifi's fast enough for copying data to/from my phone

I could HotSync my Treo over Bluetooth 10 years ago and it was an effortless two-way sync with reasonably good conflict resolution.

It amazes me that nothing quite gets that right these days.

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Re:New Surface Pro by lmm on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @03:55AM (#14408241)

Maybe something like that would be usable for text or sound, but transferring a video over bluetooth is paniful.

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Re:New Surface Pro by daxelrod on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @08:53AM (#14409618)

WiFi is clearly the correct solution in 2017. It's just sad how this has gotten harder for users as technology has otherwise improved.

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