Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 29th Jan 2013 18:47 UTC
"Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet, due on February 9th, will have a smaller amount of storage space than expected. A company spokesperson has confirmed to The Verge that the 64GB edition of Surface Pro will have 23GB of free storage out of the box. The 128GB model will have 83GB of free storage. It appears that the Windows 8 install, built-in apps, and a recovery partition will make up the 41GB total on the base Surface Pro model." Oh Microsoft.
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Member since:2005-11-13
You will care when you want to put your videos, music, or whatever else and you find you have to insert an SD card, or attach a USB drive.
You mean I might have to put videos and music on an SD card? Oh my god, THE HORROR!!!! What's wrong, Android fanboys got you brainwashed into believing that SD cards are evil, now that Nexus devices don't have them?
Member since:2008-09-21
It eats more battery since when you listen to music it seeks and reads around your SD while swapping to another.
Then 23G free isn't even plenty for apps either. Install Office, some games and full. Win8 doesn't allow to install apps and games to SDs or does it?
I assume there was no time left to optimize disk-size for Pro. Maybe to much other problems.
Edited 2013-01-29 23:31 UTC
Member since:2007-04-18
What's wrong, Android fanboys got you brainwashed into believing that SD cards are evil, now that Nexus devices don't have them?
No, us fanboys figured that if somebody's going to drop 900 bucks on a tablet computer, it better deliver what it promises.
To use a car analogy, you're defending this kind of proposition:
Car salesman: "We have this brand-new super fuel-efficient car! 64mpg!"
Car buyer: "But after I bought it, I can only get 23mpg. What gives?"
Car salesman: "Yeeah, you see, that figure didn't include the engine, the chassis and any passengers."
To only deliver 1/3 of the storage you put on the box, that's not only misleading, it is just simply lying to your customers. If these figures are accurate, MS simply fucked up here. They either need to cut down on the cruft, or give their customers a serious rebate (or accept a device return). No chance they can sell this labeled as a 64GB model in the EU, they're gonna get their asses handed to them for false advertisement.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:38 UTC
At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 11:29 UTC
The day has finally come! Jolla has finally announced the launch device for its Sailfish operating system - and by god this is a looker. It's decidedly different from other phones out there, but it has good specifications and carries a relatively reasonably price tag - EUR 399, and it's up for pre-order today, shipping in the fourth quarter of this year.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:33 UTC
Why does Google get so much credit in the technology industry? Why, despite the company's many obvious failings, do many geeks and enthusiasts still hold a somewhat positive view on the all-knowing technology giant? A specific talk at Google I/O this week provides the answer.
Linked by David Adams on 05/16/13 4:23 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/11/13 21:41 UTC
"Windows is indeed slower than other operating systems in many scenarios, and the gap is worsening." That's one way to start an insider explanation of why Windows' performance isn't up to snuff. Written by someone who actually contributes code to the Windows NT kernel, the comment on Hacker News, later deleted but reposted with permission on Marc Bevand's blog, paints a very dreary picture of the state of Windows development. The root issue? Think of how Linux is developed, and you'll know the answer.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/08/13 14:22 UTC
This is one of those news items that's fun to write, fun to read, fun to comment on, and where no one will be able to say anything unkind. It's all just one big ball of awesome fluffiness. TuneTracker, the BeOS radio automation software, has just released something very special: TuneTracker System 5, the first version designed entirely and specifically for Haiku. In fact, it actually includes Haiku in the software package. Better yet, TuneTracker also unveiled several system-in-a-box products - which have Haiku and TuneTracker pre-installed.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/02/13 15:28 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/29/13 21:06 UTC
Oh multitasking. That staple of computing that got thrown out the window with many modern smartphones. We got some rudimentary thing in its place - but even as multitasking on phone and tablets improves, its user-visible side remains cumbersome. Windows 8 has a neat implementation, and now it's time Android follows in it footsteps.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/24/13 22:24 UTC
They're here! Whether that excites you or not remains to be seen, but the Galaxy S4, which will most likely become the best selling Android smartphone of the year by a huge margin, has been reviewed by all the major sites, and there's lots of interesting conclusions in there - although I think most of you will get the gist.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/18/13 11:21 UTC
Nokia has posted its quarterly results for the first quarter of 2013, and just like the quarters that came before, there's not a whole lot of good news in there. The rise in Lumia sales still can't even dream of making up for the sales drop in Symbian phones, and when broken down in versions, the sales figures for Windows Phone 8 Lumias in particular are very disappointing. In North America, Nokia is getting slaughtered.More Features »
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You will care when you want to put your videos, music, or whatever else and you find you have to insert an SD card, or attach a USB drive.
Maybe it is just to have a cheap entry model price-point.
(Also remember things take storage while processing - you usually need to have both the old and new versions and may need them uncompressed while editing).
Steve Jobs described the PC as a truck. This is like a micro-pickup. A washer and dryer will need two trips.
Maybe they are trying to push cloud storage. But then it looks as they are making a very expensive, slow, cumbersome, chromebook.
The abyss is just beneath the surface.