Microsoft Win10 Devices Event streaming
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Microsofts Windows10 Devices event starts streaming at 3pm Uk time.
Should be unveiling/details about
Two new phones - Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL
Wearable - Band 2 wearable
Two new Surfaces – 12 and 14-inch versions
HoloLens
Windows 10 update and Windows 10 on Xbox One
Various accessories e.g. ProClear Speaker and more
stream available here http://www.microsoft.com/october2015event/en-us/li...
Should be unveiling/details about
Two new phones - Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL
Wearable - Band 2 wearable
Two new Surfaces – 12 and 14-inch versions
HoloLens
Windows 10 update and Windows 10 on Xbox One
Various accessories e.g. ProClear Speaker and more
stream available here http://www.microsoft.com/october2015event/en-us/li...
http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/06/microsoft-surfa...
Handy live update stream for anyone without sound like me
Handy live update stream for anyone without sound like me
MysteryLemon said:
So, November for the 950 and 950xl. Hopefully that will mean November for the full Windows 10 release.
The W10M developers will be getting a right old kick now - the current build isn't ready for release. It kinda works, but not particularly well.Continuum looks interesting, but it is definitely niche and I can't see it helping sell the 950 and 950XL which are utterly bland devices. A design that would look okay on a £100 phone.
However the Surface Pro 4 - that looks absolutely stunning.
MysteryLemon said:
I also think it's interesting. Suppose its marketed at the idea that you only need one device. If you can plug your phone into a monitor, keyboard and mouse, and basically have a desktop PC, why do you need anything else?
It'll be pretty good for some people - but suggesting to some that they replace their laptop and iPhone with a Windows device ..... that'll be a difficult sell. For many who just work on MS Office, browse the web, send emails, it'll be fine.I'm definitely not in the target demographic, I do effing software development.
That surfacebook with the detachable display is ace. It's what I always envisioned what would happen when the the Macbook Air and iPad merge into one device.
Now Microsoft of all companies pulled it off first. Unexpected but I'm impressed. looks like Apple finally has some competition in the laptop sector once again.
Now Microsoft of all companies pulled it off first. Unexpected but I'm impressed. looks like Apple finally has some competition in the laptop sector once again.
I'm sorry but
Microsoft
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY! (anyone want a mid 2010 iMac 27 with 16gb of RAM, 1TB hdd and Radeon 5670? you can have my 20 inch Dell 2005FPW as well!)
SP4 looks great. Will hold off until reviews see what thermals are like, the SP3 used to throttle after not too long doing hard labour. Hoping this will be better, but on the whole, its finally looking like the machine it should be.
The Surface Laptop looks very good indeed. Not sure how it works though? I guess the main gubbins is in the screen and the electronics in the base are just a beefier graphics card and some batteries?
The hinge looks well interesting.
I have to say their whole get up is looking very Apple like and I think this event pisses on Apples chips a little. I mean these two make the iPad Pro look a little half baked.
Microsoft
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY! (anyone want a mid 2010 iMac 27 with 16gb of RAM, 1TB hdd and Radeon 5670? you can have my 20 inch Dell 2005FPW as well!)
SP4 looks great. Will hold off until reviews see what thermals are like, the SP3 used to throttle after not too long doing hard labour. Hoping this will be better, but on the whole, its finally looking like the machine it should be.
The Surface Laptop looks very good indeed. Not sure how it works though? I guess the main gubbins is in the screen and the electronics in the base are just a beefier graphics card and some batteries?
The hinge looks well interesting.
I have to say their whole get up is looking very Apple like and I think this event pisses on Apples chips a little. I mean these two make the iPad Pro look a little half baked.
Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Tuesday 6th October 16:44
KTF said:
Ubuntu tried the Continuum trick years ago and it fell flat on its arse. Will be interesting to see what the uptake of the MS version is this time round.
Agreed that surface pro 4 looks amazing but I doubt its going to be cheap.
$899 bucks so, I think, not too far off the SP3 starting price. Granted that only got you the bargain basement version with the i3, 4gb of ram and 128 gb HDD.Agreed that surface pro 4 looks amazing but I doubt its going to be cheap.
KTF said:
Is that not what a surface pro already does though - all be it with less grunt behind it?
I'm not familiar with the Surface pro, but the new Surfacebook presumably has the CPU + battery in the (touch-) screen and a serious dedicated Nvidia GPU + additional battery + ports + decent keyboard in the "base". It's genius and what I've always been hoping for. I haven't touched a microsoft product in the last
EricE said:
I'm not familiar with the Surface pro, but the new Surfacebook presumably has the CPU + battery in the (touch-) screen and a serious dedicated Nvidia GPU + additional battery + ports + decent keyboard in the "base".
Thats a reasonable description based on what he was displaying.On the surface the keyboard is just that, no extra power or anything. If Apple doesnt have something similar in the works, they will now.
EricE said:
KTF said:
Is that not what a surface pro already does though - all be it with less grunt behind it?
I'm not familiar with the Surface pro, but the new Surfacebook presumably has the CPU + battery in the (touch-) screen and a serious dedicated Nvidia GPU + additional battery + ports + decent keyboard in the "base". It's genius and what I've always been hoping for. I haven't touched a microsoft product in the last
Just reading on some english media sites that the Surface Laptop will be £1499 which is the same figures as the $1499 flashed on the screen at the event. I hope they've just been lazy in their reporting because people are going to find that a tad unfair if they simply switch the $ with the £. I mean £1499 is more like $2200!
Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Tuesday 6th October 16:58
KTF said:
Thats a reasonable description based on what he was displaying.
On the surface the keyboard is just that, no extra power or anything. If Apple doesnt have something similar in the works, they will now.
The major problem I see (and always saw) with this particular solution and Apple is that their tablet and notebook products do not share an OS, processor architecture or even input philosophy. To make this device work they'd need touch input on OS X. On the surface the keyboard is just that, no extra power or anything. If Apple doesnt have something similar in the works, they will now.
Very unlikely to happen in my eyes, not unless they do a massive rewrite and merge iOS and OS X into one which would have mind-blowing implications for their whole ecosystem.
The "dirty" solution would be to use a full (ARM/iOS) iPad Air as the display and a (x86/OS X) Macbook Air as the base with some data sharing/syncing between the two but it would not be nearly as seamless and elegant as Microsoft's solution.
Suddenly it seems to me like Apple really painted themselves into a corner with their two platform strategy and Microsoft's new solution is extremely desirable to me.
Never thought I'd say that but in hindsight Windows 8.0 suddenly makes sense. Windows 10 is the same thing but actually useable. I'm impressed.
I don't think I'll switch yet but the way I see it Apple just got overtaken and left behind out of nowhere in the prosumer laptop market.
Edited by EricE on Tuesday 6th October 17:10
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