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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by baybal2 on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:14PM (#18131741)
>Biggest complaints about Surface Book:

>- Its battery management is horrible.

Microsoft didn't manage to implement suspend (ACPI S3). That's why.

In effect, closing the lid does nothing more than shuts of the backlight.

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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by Someone1234 on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:47PM (#18132122)
Windows supports S3:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/power/syste...

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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by baybal2 on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:59PM (#18132273)
It does, the Sufrace doesn't
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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by darzu on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:33PM (#18131933)
Okay, that would explain why I always see folks walking between meetings with their laptops open here on campus.

But seriously? Hasn't MSFT had enough years and developers to figure this out?!

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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by baybal2 on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:43PM (#18132063)
No, I wouldn't say so. I almost begin to think that the competence of their hardware unit was above that of their software people. I remember them making good optical mouses once upon a time, but they in the end always have to make some kind of a bombshell mistake like that.

>Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry

No, their hardware people are incompetent. Until things above change, that will not be the case.

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