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For anyone interested, BuyDig has all colors of last year's Surface Pro at a decent discount: $750 for the LCD (non OLED) version. For comparison Best Buy has this at $1000 so this looks like a good deal.
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Really, it is just a tablet.
So has anyone else gotten one?
The difference in performance over the Switch is massive and it is overall better designed and built. The mouse mode is pretty decent as well.
That said, it is pretty big now and for some reason, despite being bigger, the Joycons are more uncomfortable for me. I'll miss the IR sensor.
I've put a few hours into messing about in Mario Kart World. It's good fun.
I got one as well, along with Mario Cart World and Cyberpunk. I'm not much of a gamer, but the portability of the Switch I feels adds more value then other consoles, plus I love platformers and this is the best console for that.
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Remember when we used to get excited about these things and post lots of speculation and leaks and whatnot? Well, WWDC will go live in about 70 minutes at 1:00 PM Eastern.
https://www.youtube.com/live/0_DjDdfqtUE?si=bzH-SERDj5uUdBx7
I've had about a day to try out iPadOS 26 on my M1 ipad Pro (2021 16gb 1tb). It is smooth, responsive, and the windowing works very good for beta 0.1. It does at times crash, so would not recommend for a production unit...
However, there is ONE BIG MISS so far - I cannot find any way to open two Word or two Excel documtnes at the same time. Worse yet, some of the chatter I've seen says it will be up to MICROSOFT to support multiple files in the new windowing enviroment. Not much sense for M$ to hammer their new Surface Pro 12 like that...
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I finally pulled the trigger on it! I've been debating for months and months. I keep trying to use just eInk to limit my screen time and save my eyes as I enter the dreaded "you'll need reading glasses any day now" phase of life. We're headed to our music summer camp soon and I'll be taking some teacher training in addition to all my kids doing their various things. That means I'll be managing schedules in addition to a lot of notetaking, often outdoors in lots of beautiful natural light.
So I finally got the eInk phone to round out the camp tech. I will also take my Boox Tab Ultra C as a multipurpose machine for me, and the Boox Max Lumi as a sheet music library for the kids.
I'm a little nervous about service as it doesn't have all the US bands, and cell service is…
What provider do you use? I'm tempted by this as well to make my daily driver. I also want to reduce distractions and strain.
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I know I know, a separate post for another review? But there's so few reviews, and in the new "Groups" style of this forum it's a bit harder to notice new comments.
Here's The Verge's take (not paywalled). Quote: "The 12-inch Surface Pro is as close as Microsoft has ever gotten to fulfilling my dream of a lightweight PC you can throw under your arm and carry around all day without worrying about battery life."
https://www.theverge.com/reviews/679175/microsoft-surface-pro-12-inch-review
The Pro X is fine for now. Hopefully, the 12" sells well enough that later iterations get 5G. I will not own a tablet without it's own cellular modem.
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Man, if I had not gone down the rabbit hole of split ergonomic keyboards I would be all over this. The price isn’t even that bad at the 120 bucks considering it’s got good mechanical keys. I went through four or five of the Microsoft ones before they were discontinued. I know at the end I had two of them because I wanted one as a spare. They always broke, but I loved them too much to stop buying them.
Kinesis makes good keyboards. I love my Kinesis split keyboard. I've got the cherry speed silver switches and they're pretty great. Only problem I ever have with it is it's a little slow to respond to my KVM switch. It's the last thing to kick back on.
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Isn’t it the number one rule in a court to not piss off the judge? She was rather displeased to find that Apple blatantly lied to the court. Effective immediately, Apple can no longer charge the 30% fee for purchases outside an app.
This should apply to Play Store Android apps as well, I think, since Google was part of the suit too, even though nobody talks about that.
The Kindle app now allows “Get book” in the iOS/iPadOS app. It takes you to the Amazon page for buying it. That was quick. And it’s about time. In this particular, I am happy Apple lost.
Hmm, I guess this is old news? The video was an hour old as I posted and he says it happened “today”, but the quotes shown are a month old.
ABSOLUTELY RULE #! - never piss off the judge, especially TWICE because she already busted their chops the first go round when they “opened” to third party stores but had dozens of requirements and restrictions. Guess it’s the lawyer in me, but whether your a corporate “government” or public “government” you DO NOT IGNORE court rulings, right, wrong, or indifferent.
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I was noticing an awful lot of fingerpainting marks when he switched to zooming, rotating, moving, etc. the canvas. He didn't comment about that as it happened (nor at any time in the video that I saw) and it was in fast motion so maybe it just seemed like it was happening all the time. shrug
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Refurbished Surface Pro 11 X-Elite (that means OLED), 16gb RAM and 512gb SSD for $799 - that's right, $100 LESS than the new SP12!
If you are a Best Buy Total Member, you get 24 months warranty as well.
Its a good deal. I can attest the OLED screen is really nice to look at, especially if you have it side by side with non-OLED Pros. Despite already having a Pro 11 X Elite, I so want that Sapphire color. But its kind of pathetic the Tablet is $799, but the Flex Keyboard is still $499. It still erks me to no end what a rip-off that price is. Bluetooth is a dirt cheap technology to add on, they must be pocketing a good chunk of margin from each one of those they sell.
FWIW, yesterday the page said that the coupon would expire on the 12th, but today I see they moved it to the 16th.