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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @11:57AM (#45028327)
from pure CPU and battery life perspective, Snapdragon X Elite based Surface Laptop 7 are really quite good -- comparable to M2 Pro and M3 Pro performance and performance per watt. GPU is a bit weak.

the build quality of surface laptop is superb also.

Re:Backend for Front-end on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @11:40PM (#32920608)
sometimes these are called Middle Tier -- an aggregation layer between frontend and backend services
Re:How Satya Nadella revived Microsoft on Friday February 10, 2017 @11:07AM (#13616320)
majority of this layoff was the hardware guys from Nokia acquisition.
what kind of scraping project was it?
worth mentioning: https://www.projectoxford.ai/ from Microsoft
Re:Microsoft's new foldable keyboard on Sunday March 15, 2015 @01:43AM (#9205512)
the Asus X205 is amazing bang for the buck
Re:Ask HN: Any ideas on how to thumbnail 2M images? on Saturday September 06, 2014 @02:06PM (#8278989)
how long would it take to upload 2M images?

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