>I've been living in the future with my Surface Pro for a while now.
So Philip K Dick was right after all, the future is a dystopia?
Re:Updated MacBook Pros
by WorldWideWayne on Saturday August 02, 2014 @10:45AM
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I guess one man's dystopia is another's utopia? Because I'm in the latter ;)
I think Apple has brought us closer to dystopia than anyone with their hardware + software lockin monoculture. At least I can move to other hardware vendors if I don't like Microsoft's hardware. If I want to run OSX I have to buy Apple's hardware (and I do when I have to, but I certainly don't enjoy it).
What do you find so amazing about the Surface Pro btw?
Re:Updated MacBook Pros
by WorldWideWayne on Saturday August 02, 2014 @10:44AM
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I love the Surface Pro because it comes with a "full" (not locked-down) OS running on very capable 64-bit hardware in a 10" tablet and all of the desktop apps that I use work great with touch input. (The hardware is i5/4GB RAM/128 GB SSD.)
In addition to all the Windows software that I run on it, I also have a small Ubuntu Server VM within the included hypervisor. Can't wait until the Surface Pro 4 comes out, that's when I'll probably jump to the Surface Pro 3 to get the larger screen and SSD size.
Apple won't catch up to that until they can lock down the supply chain.