Agreed. I'm still using my Win7 SP1 installs, and the last time they were reinstalled was when the MSDN SP1-integrated Win7 DVDs came out... still running like champs.
That's actually not true. I'm typing this from a Win8 tablet that gets 10+ hours out of a 30Wh battery... not shoddy by any means.
Of course, if you're running an i5 with active cooling in your tablet a la Surface Pro, you'll see significantly lower battery life. The HP tablets are likely to have very low power parts though.
People who know what they're doing use standby or at least hibernate. The rest boot... seriously, 90% of the people I know with Windows 8 laptops praise them for their fast boot times, because even with XP and 7 they used to perform a full boot every time they wanted to use their device. Years of conditioning ("Windows only runs properly when it's freshly rebooted!"), I suppose:(
I'm running a Windows 8 tablet with a slow ass Clover Trail Atom and 2GB of RAM... for tablet stuff, it's fine. I highly doubt the Hp $99 version will be any slower (which pisses me off a little, considering I paid 700€ for mine:p)...
Isn't the recording & encoding part mostly CPU-dependent? And even if the graphics card is used to encode the video, isn't there dedicated H264 encoder hardware on these cards (meaning a budget card from the same generation shouldn't be any slower in this aspect)?
The interesting thing is that I seem to have conditioned myself to only be good at videogames (I play mostly Counter-Strike GO these days) when I've had a sip of beer - not even a lot of beers, just one or two over the course of a few hours of gaming. I can't hit anything when I haven't cracked open a beer, but as soon as I take that first sip, the headshots start coming.
I'm actually sliding down in the ranks slowly because I've been too lazy to buy beer lately...
What kind of a workload are you looking at on the go? For office/web/coding, there are many laptops already available that will last longer than your typical smartphone.
I have a Thinkpad X220 (Sandy Bridge) that I unplug in the morning, use on battery all day (9 cell 94Wh) and then plug in when I get home, usually with 20-30% remaining after an active runtime of roughly 10 hours. A 13" MacBook Air should be able to improve on that time...
Also (according to the professor who taught my advanced mathematics course), FORTRAN compilers are easy to trick into doing exactly what you want in Assembly. In languages like C, it's apparently much more difficult to predict what the compiler will end up spitting out, but in FORTRAN they are (or were - my prof's experiences with FORTRAN date back to the 80s) able to pretty much able to optimize the actual Assembly quite well without actually needing to touch Assembly...
Meh, it was the same for me. I just switched to one of the many other free services that're just as good... I don't understand why Dyn think that they're going to be able to charge money for what everyone else offers for free:S
But why wouldn't Microsoft release security updates for XP if they're going to developing them anyway? Hell, I know some people who'd probably be willing to pay $100 a year (privately) to not have to go through the motions of upgrading to Win7.
While I agree with you in theory, this is not the case - mainly because Win8 "apps" suck. The only really usable app is (ironically) Internet Explorer... for non-work stuff (I use my Win8 tablet for things like note-taking with the digitizer and OneNote), I'd take Android any day. The apps are just better through and through:(
Have they finally implemented a matchmaking system for 1.6? I've finally gotten back into CS since they released competitive matchmaking for *gasp* CSGO, and I've been having a blast. 1.6 with matchmaking would be even better...
All that Fourier transform stuff is more of an EE thing... I just took the exam (theory of signals, I think it would be called in English) here in Germany and it was freakin brutal.
Getting a small taste of the subject in an elective would have been preferable;)
Why do you people keep buying laptops with tiny cooling systems and dedicated graphics cards with dozens of Watts of TDP? I stopped buying those damned things years ago and haven't had to replace a machine since then.
Power consumption is an issue on many graphics cards. If you use a dedicated mid to highend card, there's a big chance that its power consumption jumps dramatically when you connect more than one monitor...
A good backlit screen, set to the proper brightness and contrast levels, should not be visibly "backlit"! If it is, your screen is too bright and you will strain your eyes.
This is the main issue right here with using backlit devices for reading - most people (including many here on Slashdot) have no idea how to use them properly.
In a normally lit room, my monitors and other LCDs look like a piece of printed paper (provided they're displaying black text on a white background, of course), because that's the way I like it. No eyestrain whatsoever:)
So... you've never used a laptop? Subnotebook? Ultrabook? *Gasp* Netbook? Pretty mobile in my book. Of course Windows is mobile.
And for certain use cases, full-blown Windows on a tablet is actually pretty good. OneNote, PDF Annotator... a Windows based tablet with an active digitizer is pretty much the perfect delivery vehicle for these applications.
To be fair though, WinRT more than deserves to be killed off. Why go for ARM "Windows" when the Atom based Win8 tablets are just as fast, have the same stellar battery life and offer a superset of WinRT's functionality? If you don't like desktop apps, just don't use them...
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Agreed. I'm still using my Win7 SP1 installs, and the last time they were reinstalled was when the MSDN SP1-integrated Win7 DVDs came out... still running like champs.
That's actually not true. I'm typing this from a Win8 tablet that gets 10+ hours out of a 30Wh battery... not shoddy by any means.
Of course, if you're running an i5 with active cooling in your tablet a la Surface Pro, you'll see significantly lower battery life. The HP tablets are likely to have very low power parts though.
People who know what they're doing use standby or at least hibernate. The rest boot... seriously, 90% of the people I know with Windows 8 laptops praise them for their fast boot times, because even with XP and 7 they used to perform a full boot every time they wanted to use their device. Years of conditioning ("Windows only runs properly when it's freshly rebooted!"), I suppose :(
I'm running a Windows 8 tablet with a slow ass Clover Trail Atom and 2GB of RAM... for tablet stuff, it's fine. I highly doubt the Hp $99 version will be any slower (which pisses me off a little, considering I paid 700€ for mine :p)...
More like too early, I'd just gotten to work and hadn't had my coffee yet :D
It's a freakin RV with a *server rack* in it - I think we're past decadent...
SSD???
Isn't the recording & encoding part mostly CPU-dependent? And even if the graphics card is used to encode the video, isn't there dedicated H264 encoder hardware on these cards (meaning a budget card from the same generation shouldn't be any slower in this aspect)?
This! Cisco doesn't actually oppose net neutrality, just the abolishment of QoS prioritization... but who the hell wanted to get rid of that anyway?
Oh that's cool, thanks for the info! TIL...
The interesting thing is that I seem to have conditioned myself to only be good at videogames (I play mostly Counter-Strike GO these days) when I've had a sip of beer - not even a lot of beers, just one or two over the course of a few hours of gaming. I can't hit anything when I haven't cracked open a beer, but as soon as I take that first sip, the headshots start coming.
I'm actually sliding down in the ranks slowly because I've been too lazy to buy beer lately...
What kind of a workload are you looking at on the go? For office/web/coding, there are many laptops already available that will last longer than your typical smartphone.
I have a Thinkpad X220 (Sandy Bridge) that I unplug in the morning, use on battery all day (9 cell 94Wh) and then plug in when I get home, usually with 20-30% remaining after an active runtime of roughly 10 hours. A 13" MacBook Air should be able to improve on that time...
Also (according to the professor who taught my advanced mathematics course), FORTRAN compilers are easy to trick into doing exactly what you want in Assembly. In languages like C, it's apparently much more difficult to predict what the compiler will end up spitting out, but in FORTRAN they are (or were - my prof's experiences with FORTRAN date back to the 80s) able to pretty much able to optimize the actual Assembly quite well without actually needing to touch Assembly...
I found that tidbit quite interesting...
Big advantage paper has is you can spread it out.
You obviously need more monitors. :D
Meh, it was the same for me. I just switched to one of the many other free services that're just as good... I don't understand why Dyn think that they're going to be able to charge money for what everyone else offers for free :S
But why wouldn't Microsoft release security updates for XP if they're going to developing them anyway? Hell, I know some people who'd probably be willing to pay $100 a year (privately) to not have to go through the motions of upgrading to Win7.
While I agree with you in theory, this is not the case - mainly because Win8 "apps" suck. The only really usable app is (ironically) Internet Explorer... for non-work stuff (I use my Win8 tablet for things like note-taking with the digitizer and OneNote), I'd take Android any day. The apps are just better through and through :(
Have they finally implemented a matchmaking system for 1.6? I've finally gotten back into CS since they released competitive matchmaking for *gasp* CSGO, and I've been having a blast. 1.6 with matchmaking would be even better...
All that Fourier transform stuff is more of an EE thing... I just took the exam (theory of signals, I think it would be called in English) here in Germany and it was freakin brutal.
Getting a small taste of the subject in an elective would have been preferable ;)
Why do you people keep buying laptops with tiny cooling systems and dedicated graphics cards with dozens of Watts of TDP? I stopped buying those damned things years ago and haven't had to replace a machine since then.
Reliable onboard Intel graphics > Hot-headed dedicated graphics
Graphically intensive work (and gaming) should be done on desktops.
Power consumption is an issue on many graphics cards. If you use a dedicated mid to highend card, there's a big chance that its power consumption jumps dramatically when you connect more than one monitor...
My low end ATI card from about a year ago will do so just fine. It's not that big of an issue...
A good backlit screen, set to the proper brightness and contrast levels, should not be visibly "backlit"! If it is, your screen is too bright and you will strain your eyes.
This is the main issue right here with using backlit devices for reading - most people (including many here on Slashdot) have no idea how to use them properly.
In a normally lit room, my monitors and other LCDs look like a piece of printed paper (provided they're displaying black text on a white background, of course), because that's the way I like it. No eyestrain whatsoever :)
So... you've never used a laptop? Subnotebook? Ultrabook? *Gasp* Netbook? Pretty mobile in my book. Of course Windows is mobile.
And for certain use cases, full-blown Windows on a tablet is actually pretty good. OneNote, PDF Annotator... a Windows based tablet with an active digitizer is pretty much the perfect delivery vehicle for these applications.
To be fair though, WinRT more than deserves to be killed off. Why go for ARM "Windows" when the Atom based Win8 tablets are just as fast, have the same stellar battery life and offer a superset of WinRT's functionality? If you don't like desktop apps, just don't use them...