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Microsoft's Surface Roadmap Reportedly Includes Ambient Computing and a Modular All-in-One PC (venturebeat.com)
Journalist Brad Sams is releasing a book chronicling the company's Surface brand: Beneath a Surface. VentureBeat writes: While you'll want to read all 26 chapters to get the juicy details, the last one includes Microsoft's hardware roadmap for 2019, and even a part of 2020 -- spanning various Surface products and even a little Xbox. Here's a quick rundown of Microsoft's current Surface lineup plans:
Spring 2019: A new type of Surface-branded ambient computing device designed to address "some of the common frustrations of using a smartphone," but that isn't itself a smartphone.
Q4 2019: Surface Pro refresh with USB-C (finally), smaller bezels, rounded corners, and new color options.
Q4 2019: AMD-based Surface Laptop -- Microsoft is exploring using the Picasso architecture.
Late 2019: Microsoft's foldable tablet Andromeda could be larger than earlier small form factor prototypes for a pocketable device with dual screens and LTE connectivity.
Q1 2020: Surface Book update that might include new hinge designs (high-end performance parts may delay availability).
2020: A Surface monitor, and the modular design debuted for Surface Hub 2 could make its way to Surface Studio. The idea is to bring simple upgrades to all-in-one PCs, rather than having to replace the whole computer. GeekWire adds: A pair of new lower-cost devices Xbox One S devices could come next year. Sams reports that one of the models may be all digital, without a disc drive.
Spring 2019: A new type of Surface-branded ambient computing device designed to address "some of the common frustrations of using a smartphone," but that isn't itself a smartphone.
Q4 2019: Surface Pro refresh with USB-C (finally), smaller bezels, rounded corners, and new color options.
Q4 2019: AMD-based Surface Laptop -- Microsoft is exploring using the Picasso architecture.
Late 2019: Microsoft's foldable tablet Andromeda could be larger than earlier small form factor prototypes for a pocketable device with dual screens and LTE connectivity.
Q1 2020: Surface Book update that might include new hinge designs (high-end performance parts may delay availability).
2020: A Surface monitor, and the modular design debuted for Surface Hub 2 could make its way to Surface Studio. The idea is to bring simple upgrades to all-in-one PCs, rather than having to replace the whole computer. GeekWire adds: A pair of new lower-cost devices Xbox One S devices could come next year. Sams reports that one of the models may be all digital, without a disc drive.
aside from being another new buzzword to learn, that is
Huh?
I'll have what he had.
How about a smartphone that can turn into a tablet or a desktop or a ruku or a gaming console. Then the $1k smartphone woukd actually make some sense.
Isn't that just a regular PC with a separate monitor?
Huh?
sorry my comment was garbled. try looking into windows logo as if it's one of those dual use technology duck/hare pictures. Notice it's also a cross. It is especially evident nowadays. Even Microsoft company logo has a cross sandwiched between color cubes. Mac and Apple is reference to biblical fruit of paradise. You know taste the rainbow. Linux mascot is little devil. Daemon... I'm just throwing some nonsense in the air. You know shit stains of stirred shit martini of tar budgets that hasn't been shaken with explosive force yet.
for spouting the
"modular all-in-one"
speak.
FCOL
captcha : frigid
. Notice it's also a cross. It is especially evident nowadays. Even Microsoft company logo has a cross sandwiched between color cubes.
I'm not seeing it.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
The power cable is the biggest disappointment with the Surface. I thought they want to use it as some kind of docking adapter but leaving out a USB 3 charging port option is just wrong.
Kriston
First off... "modular all-in-one pc?" Da fsck does that mean? Doesn't modular imply many parts that can be added/removed, while all-in-one means the opposite?
OK, reading further... "A Surface monitor... blah blah... The idea is to bring simple upgrades to all-in-one PCs, rather than having to replace the whole computer."
What... I don't even... huh? Reinvent the wheel much? The whole *point* of the desktop PC since the dawn of the freakin' pc age is that you can open it up and upgrade bits and pieces at will - a hard-drive here, some memory, maybe a new video card etc. The only fly in the ointment is, well, microsoft and their silly "you change x components so we invalidated your license now" / "let's nail everything down with trusted computer blah (or whatever they've rebranded it this week)" type shenanigans.
I like my OS stable, not polished.
Linux mascot is little devil. Daemon...
Uh, since when is a penguin a little devil/daemon? I assume you meant BSD?
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/29/key-takeaways-michael-cohens-new-plea-deal
1. There are conspicuous mentions of Trump and his family.
2. Putin’s spokesman appears to have helped cover this up.
3. This ties the Trump family’s efforts to the Russian government.
4) The deal apparently died the day The Post broke a story about Russian hacking.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/deutsche-bank-offices-raided_us_5c00331de4b027f1097bc8aa
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/29/key-takeaways-michael-cohens-new-plea-deal
1. There are conspicuous mentions of Trump and his family. 2. Putin’s spokesman appears to have helped cover this up. 3. This ties the Trump family’s efforts to the Russian government. 4) The deal apparently died the day The Post broke a story about Russian hacking.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/deutsche-bank-offices-raided_us_5c00331de4b027f1097bc8aa
Nobody cares.
Uh, since when is a penguin a little devil/daemon?
When you're a fish just trying to eke out a living in the Antarctic ocean.
what do you think X-box all about? It's an x inside the box. If you tilt a windows logo 45 degrees - the cross inside will look like an "X" inside the box. You know it's a territory of x-files. red hand, red neck and red shoe diaries, double crossing. double plus good, triple X, etc.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Think about SIGINT operation where google was finished when they added plus or cross sign to it. You know when they created this strange product - google plus. I can't come up with any better explanation. You know they are the best brains in the world. In comparison to them we the people are some sort of brainless zombies epidemic that they are trying to eradicate. Notice if you read "ebola" in brexit traffic fashion you end up with "a lobe". They are coming with very powerful swords. Yet this product doesn't make any sense. It's as if they are not that smart or bright or getting caught in the web of their lies and being "infected" by their own devices. They are not afraid to look stupid. As if anything that barks can be wagged. Are you smarter than fifth grade citizen?
Are you smarter than fifth grade citizen?
Yes, in fact, I am.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
If the PC is all-in-one, then why is it modular?