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Microsoft's Surface Laptop With Windows 10 S Leaks Ahead of New York Unveil (hothardware.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the surprise-ruining dept.

MojoKid writes: Microsoft is holding an event in New York City tomorrow, the core theme of which is "Microsoft in Education." It's widely expected that the company will be unveiling a new Surface Laptop device running a Windows 10 Cloud version OS. As it turns out, images of a new Surface laptop leaked to the web tonight portray very much that type of product, though it's not necessarily a budget machine. For starters, it has a 13.5-inch PixelSense display with 3.4 million pixels, which appears to retain the 3:2 screen ratio that we've seen with previous Surface-branded products. Given that this is a laptop, there's no detachable keyboard here. The display is permanently attached to the base and features an Alcantara-covered keyboard deck (the same material used on the Surface Pro 4's optional Signature Type Cover). It also appears the Surface Laptop will be available in four colors: Platinum, Burgundy, Cobalt Blue and Graphite Gold. Other images of the machine show an SD slot, a single USB 3.0 port, mini DisplayPort and a headphone jack. Microsoft apparently hasn't equipped the machine with a USB-C port, unfortunately.

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  1. And we can guess what the S stands for by DrXym · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Windows 10 Cloud is basically a rebranded Windows RT. It is stripped of the capacity of running normal Windows applications, being only able to run UWP ones and is therefore worse than fucking useless.

    I wonder if there is an argument to port Wine to UWP so it can revert some of the brain damage for people stuck with one of these devices.

    1. Re:And we can guess what the S stands for by drinkypoo · · Score: 1, Insightful

      I installed Photoshop on my Chromebook. Works great!

      If you insist on being obtuse, you're going to have to hide behind anonymity forever.

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  2. Isn't that by design? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    From the title:

    > "Microsoft's Surface Laptop With Windows 10 S Leaks"

    Isn't that a feature of Windows 10 anyway? Or perhaps the surprise here is that one Microsoft product is working as intended?

  3. type c isnt popular because stupid manufacturers by gl4ss · · Score: 1, Insightful

    type c isnt popular because stupid manufacturers who only seem to put it on expensive slim machines and lose a currently more useful port for it.

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    world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.