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Re:The new Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition is now available to ... by wlesieutre on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @09:25AM (#9685750)
Microsoft's docking just runs the desktop UI of their universal apps, as far as I know. You won't get the full win32 desktop with the ability to run Visual Studio.

UI-wise it'll look similar to the average user, but it's a pretty different approach.

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Re:The new Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition is now available to ... by Roritharr on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @09:58AM (#9685896)
To be honest, as a Surface Pro 2 User, even with 8GB Ram in Phones becoming theoretically possible, i don't think i'd actually want to compromise any further down for my development environment ressourcewise.
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Re:The new Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition is now available to ... by eropple on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @11:24AM (#9686454)
I'm in the same boat. I picked up a bottom-model Surface Pro 3 during a startup liquidation and I'm pretty happy with it for VS2015, but I definitely agree that there's not much more "down" to go.
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Re:The new Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition is now available to ... by wlesieutre on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @11:27AM (#9686479)
Agreed. I'm also on a SP3 (but the i5 version), and I wouldn't want to try doing serious work in a desktop environment on a cell phone processor.

Maybe things will change in a few years as ARM/Snapdragon/etc processors continue to improve and phones get more memory, but for the time being I think MS's approach to phones + large monitors is preferable.

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