Yes, I really like it, and I think it would be an order of magnitude better than the WinBook by any measure. The Core-M 7Y30 is waaay faster than any Atom, and it has a proper 128GB SSD. 4GB of memory is on the lower end but still better than 2 and perfectly fine for tabletly work. The screen is 1080p IPS and supports Wacom EMR pens which is pretty awesome, though unfortunately it isn't fully laminated. Also has Intel AC wireless. All of this works well and I'm very happy that I found something with this combination of features.
That said, it's still a cheap Chinese tablet at a fraction of the cost of brand name competitors so there are some compromises. Mainly, it's a bit larger and heavier than it could've been because they didn't shrink the chassis in several generations so there's just wasted space inside and rather large bezels. Consequently, the battery could've been noticeably larger, but it isn't, though you can get 6-8 hours with light usage. The trackapad is quite small and just isn't great, though the keyboard feels fine for such a device.You could push the processor much harder (the BIOS is completely unlocked) but it runs into thermal issues quickly at higher TPD settings. Th
At least Elon's little red rocket works, while Saturn V's ancient corroded fuel lines prevent it from ever going up again. Unless perhaps NASA procures some solid blue fuel for it.
I don't know the exact numbers, probably still small in absolute terms, but the Surface and similar devices have been growing pretty strongly just based on MS's financial reporting.
I got a Cube Mix Plus a few months ago to take travelling. It's powerful enough to Photoshop my vacation photos or play games, yet small and cheap enough that I can throw it in my backpack without worrying about it. It's been absolutely great for this and I'm using it back home now too.
Yet what I've noticed is that I used it with the keyboard dock 90% of the time and it's not because it sucks as a tablet. Obviously Visual Studio is unusable but stuff everyone uses tablets for -- browsing, email or maps work just as well as on Android or Apple tablets. I think it's just that the laptop is a superior form factor and this, or even better, Yoga-type devices are what most people actually want without realizing it.
Most people buy cases for their tablets, and many also use extra keyboard to make them actually usable. A device that is a bit thicker and heavier but comes with a built-in screen protector, stand, and keyboard is a clear winner IMO. Many such laptops are pretty enormous, relatively speaking, but it doesn't have to be that way - go check out Yoga Book in person.
How are they terrible CPUs? I have the 7y30 in the 2-in-1 that I'm typing this in right now and it's perfectly fine for this usecase. Admittedly the thermals in mine a pretty terrible indeed but that's because the Chinese designers didn't put a thermal pad between the CPU heatspreader and the back case, a larger MS designed laptop should easily be able to sustain >10 watts if configured as such. And the meltdown fixes won't make a lick of difference on a laptop like this.
Well yeah if you're comparing working from your bathroom to spending a whole day to travel to the office, of course it's going to be more productive. Realistically though I haven't seen any conclusive studies on productivity but I'd imagine it would be pretty similar on average with one or the other being better for some people or some types of work.
What I can say for certain though is that it's absolutely a determent for career development because you don't get to network with anyone outside of your immediate team. And even within the team everything is on a pretty strict "need to know" basis so you get only a vague idea what the hell everyone is doing every day. Somebody might see this as a feature but personally I find this limiting.
My team is in 5 countries around Europe and I'm the only one based in my office. I can, and usually do go there daily so I actually get out of the house, can socialize a bit (even if it's mostly bullshit about weather) and use the gym. At the same time, it's also great that I can telecommute whenever I want or need. For a week I even worked from SE Asia where I effectively extended my vacation by chilling on the beach in the morning and working in the afternoon.
I think you might be overstating a bit just how cheap Seagate drives are. I recently bought a HGST NAS drive and it was like 5% more expensive than a similarly-specced Seagate. This seems to roughly hold true when looking and comparable lines, though obviously the shingle archive drivers would be much cheaper than the high performance NAS stuff.
They're just being brave. You should too suck it up and just walk under the roof, what's the worst that could happen. You'll see they were right all along!
Lost like a quarter there. I tried mining on my aging desktop and despite running it for a day that's how much I "earned". Oh well, sucks for the others!
Yeah at the HQ there are lunches in the cafeteria and my our office, meal vouchers that can be used in most restaurants nearby. There's also a gym that I use instead of going out for lunch.
Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, my satisfaction with the company as a place of work has little to do with any of this and mostly with the direct team, manager, and work culture there. While everyone puts in maximum time and effort when necessary, you can make up for it by bailing early on Fridays or other slow days. Nobody cares when you check in and check out. Work from home as much as you want or need. Hell, work from a different country.
My place is in the top 15, but I'm not sure how I feel about it being beaten by a fast food company.
Yeah, there are many reasons DBAs or other such roles can't effectively support the business needs. They have limited resources, their priorities don't align with your priorities, they don't have the domain knowledge, etc. For context of the below anecdote, I work as an analyst/data scientist for a major enterprise software vendor, so we have software and devs out the ass.
This year there was a need to regularly provide our stakeholders with some information. The as-is solution would've involved pulling a basic report manually and then spending hours crunching it further in Excel until the needed numbers fell out. Automating this was requested from the team responsible for delivering BI solutions; they said it would be available by end of Q1. I haven't heard anything until last week, and based on that status update I don't think it will be fully working next Q1.
We couldn't wait until Q1/17, let alone next Q1/18, because VP-level people needed to know this stuff immediately. But instead of fighting with Excel, I fired up an internal cloud server and set up our own BI system in a couple of weeks. There's a manual ETL step that I have a student do but it's a huge improvement overall. If I hadn't done it, somebody might've hacked together some macros instead.
Based on this experience, and another similar one playing out right now, I think the reasons I mentioned played the biggest role. Doing things properly will always be more difficult, but sometimes you can't afford to wait. But I think a way to improve that would be to place the BI (DBAs etc) guys closer to the action in the respective lines of business, rather than in the global IT organization.
No, I meant your own books, i.e. those you loaded yourself and didn't get from Amazon. I do remember the story about them "recalling" already sold books, but not the details so who knows what happened.
A Kindle is fine. It doesn't have to be connected to the internet, and even if you let it, it won't touch your books. Which you can copy over USB in a bunch of formats (I think PDF, text and either epub or mobi is supported). I got one for my mom a few years ago and she's been very happy with it.
I'm sure that's true. However anecdotally, I haven't seen an ipad in our office for a long time, but there are always a bunch of Surface Pro and Books around, maybe 15% of all laptops.
Which was great when I was filling up a rental Focus I never drove before. Had to ask the attendant what she it could take.
Also at another pump I got away with random garbage for ZIP code. I'm actually not even sure it was ever billed to me, at least it I don't remember seeing it in the statement a few days later...
A big part of total sales is day-1 probably due to preorders, but the first week or so (http://steamspy.com/app/594570; unless it's a flappy bird or something) is very important. If there's a crack already available during this time, it's pretty logical that some people who would've bought it would instead pirate. Good luck proving that either way though.
>LOL....yeah, there's not reason not to. Lets just abandon DHTML and go back to full page reloads on every action, not matter how small. It's been so long, I guess I must've forgotten how much I loved all those full page reloads.
Yes, let's do that. Seriously. In practice these horrible full page reloads are faster than loading megabytes of JS garbage to view a comment or something. Just compare using slashdot to Disgus(t) or whatever it's called.
I once linked goatse in a context where it should've been clear it's goatse (it was a related discussion about shock sites or something), but without explicitly mentioning it by name. Somebody tracked me down on ICQ and asked me "why would you do that???" Still warms my heart to this day.
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Yes, I really like it, and I think it would be an order of magnitude better than the WinBook by any measure. The Core-M 7Y30 is waaay faster than any Atom, and it has a proper 128GB SSD. 4GB of memory is on the lower end but still better than 2 and perfectly fine for tabletly work. The screen is 1080p IPS and supports Wacom EMR pens which is pretty awesome, though unfortunately it isn't fully laminated. Also has Intel AC wireless. All of this works well and I'm very happy that I found something with this combination of features.
That said, it's still a cheap Chinese tablet at a fraction of the cost of brand name competitors so there are some compromises. Mainly, it's a bit larger and heavier than it could've been because they didn't shrink the chassis in several generations so there's just wasted space inside and rather large bezels. Consequently, the battery could've been noticeably larger, but it isn't, though you can get 6-8 hours with light usage. The trackapad is quite small and just isn't great, though the keyboard feels fine for such a device.You could push the processor much harder (the BIOS is completely unlocked) but it runs into thermal issues quickly at higher TPD settings. Th
At least Elon's little red rocket works, while Saturn V's ancient corroded fuel lines prevent it from ever going up again. Unless perhaps NASA procures some solid blue fuel for it.
I don't know the exact numbers, probably still small in absolute terms, but the Surface and similar devices have been growing pretty strongly just based on MS's financial reporting.
I got a Cube Mix Plus a few months ago to take travelling. It's powerful enough to Photoshop my vacation photos or play games, yet small and cheap enough that I can throw it in my backpack without worrying about it. It's been absolutely great for this and I'm using it back home now too.
Yet what I've noticed is that I used it with the keyboard dock 90% of the time and it's not because it sucks as a tablet. Obviously Visual Studio is unusable but stuff everyone uses tablets for -- browsing, email or maps work just as well as on Android or Apple tablets. I think it's just that the laptop is a superior form factor and this, or even better, Yoga-type devices are what most people actually want without realizing it.
Most people buy cases for their tablets, and many also use extra keyboard to make them actually usable. A device that is a bit thicker and heavier but comes with a built-in screen protector, stand, and keyboard is a clear winner IMO. Many such laptops are pretty enormous, relatively speaking, but it doesn't have to be that way - go check out Yoga Book in person.
It's not really contradictory, even if it seems so at first.t For a car analogy, consider that a BMW 116i is not a high-end model, but a premium one.
How are they terrible CPUs? I have the 7y30 in the 2-in-1 that I'm typing this in right now and it's perfectly fine for this usecase. Admittedly the thermals in mine a pretty terrible indeed but that's because the Chinese designers didn't put a thermal pad between the CPU heatspreader and the back case, a larger MS designed laptop should easily be able to sustain >10 watts if configured as such. And the meltdown fixes won't make a lick of difference on a laptop like this.
Well yeah if you're comparing working from your bathroom to spending a whole day to travel to the office, of course it's going to be more productive. Realistically though I haven't seen any conclusive studies on productivity but I'd imagine it would be pretty similar on average with one or the other being better for some people or some types of work.
What I can say for certain though is that it's absolutely a determent for career development because you don't get to network with anyone outside of your immediate team. And even within the team everything is on a pretty strict "need to know" basis so you get only a vague idea what the hell everyone is doing every day. Somebody might see this as a feature but personally I find this limiting.
My team is in 5 countries around Europe and I'm the only one based in my office. I can, and usually do go there daily so I actually get out of the house, can socialize a bit (even if it's mostly bullshit about weather) and use the gym. At the same time, it's also great that I can telecommute whenever I want or need. For a week I even worked from SE Asia where I effectively extended my vacation by chilling on the beach in the morning and working in the afternoon.
That's not what the memo is showing, at all.
I think you might be overstating a bit just how cheap Seagate drives are. I recently bought a HGST NAS drive and it was like 5% more expensive than a similarly-specced Seagate. This seems to roughly hold true when looking and comparable lines, though obviously the shingle archive drivers would be much cheaper than the high performance NAS stuff.
They're just being brave. You should too suck it up and just walk under the roof, what's the worst that could happen. You'll see they were right all along!
Is it the ones or zeroes that are worse for you??
Lost like a quarter there. I tried mining on my aging desktop and despite running it for a day that's how much I "earned". Oh well, sucks for the others!
Yeah at the HQ there are lunches in the cafeteria and my our office, meal vouchers that can be used in most restaurants nearby. There's also a gym that I use instead of going out for lunch.
Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, my satisfaction with the company as a place of work has little to do with any of this and mostly with the direct team, manager, and work culture there. While everyone puts in maximum time and effort when necessary, you can make up for it by bailing early on Fridays or other slow days. Nobody cares when you check in and check out. Work from home as much as you want or need. Hell, work from a different country.
My place is in the top 15, but I'm not sure how I feel about it being beaten by a fast food company.
If it does that in an extremely dumb and inefficient way, that's a perfectly valid reason to complain.
Yeah, there are many reasons DBAs or other such roles can't effectively support the business needs. They have limited resources, their priorities don't align with your priorities, they don't have the domain knowledge, etc. For context of the below anecdote, I work as an analyst/data scientist for a major enterprise software vendor, so we have software and devs out the ass.
This year there was a need to regularly provide our stakeholders with some information. The as-is solution would've involved pulling a basic report manually and then spending hours crunching it further in Excel until the needed numbers fell out. Automating this was requested from the team responsible for delivering BI solutions; they said it would be available by end of Q1. I haven't heard anything until last week, and based on that status update I don't think it will be fully working next Q1.
We couldn't wait until Q1/17, let alone next Q1/18, because VP-level people needed to know this stuff immediately. But instead of fighting with Excel, I fired up an internal cloud server and set up our own BI system in a couple of weeks. There's a manual ETL step that I have a student do but it's a huge improvement overall. If I hadn't done it, somebody might've hacked together some macros instead.
Based on this experience, and another similar one playing out right now, I think the reasons I mentioned played the biggest role. Doing things properly will always be more difficult, but sometimes you can't afford to wait. But I think a way to improve that would be to place the BI (DBAs etc) guys closer to the action in the respective lines of business, rather than in the global IT organization.
No, I meant your own books, i.e. those you loaded yourself and didn't get from Amazon. I do remember the story about them "recalling" already sold books, but not the details so who knows what happened.
A Kindle is fine. It doesn't have to be connected to the internet, and even if you let it, it won't touch your books. Which you can copy over USB in a bunch of formats (I think PDF, text and either epub or mobi is supported). I got one for my mom a few years ago and she's been very happy with it.
8-year-olds are the only ones who still find tablets useful.
When there's no more room in columbariums, the dead will walk the earth.
I'm sure that's true. However anecdotally, I haven't seen an ipad in our office for a long time, but there are always a bunch of Surface Pro and Books around, maybe 15% of all laptops.
Which was great when I was filling up a rental Focus I never drove before. Had to ask the attendant what she it could take.
Also at another pump I got away with random garbage for ZIP code. I'm actually not even sure it was ever billed to me, at least it I don't remember seeing it in the statement a few days later...
A big part of total sales is day-1 probably due to preorders, but the first week or so (http://steamspy.com/app/594570; unless it's a flappy bird or something) is very important. If there's a crack already available during this time, it's pretty logical that some people who would've bought it would instead pirate. Good luck proving that either way though.
>LOL....yeah, there's not reason not to. Lets just abandon DHTML and go back to full page reloads on every action, not matter how small. It's been so long, I guess I must've forgotten how much I loved all those full page reloads.
Yes, let's do that. Seriously. In practice these horrible full page reloads are faster than loading megabytes of JS garbage to view a comment or something. Just compare using slashdot to Disgus(t) or whatever it's called.
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Disable Javascript. There's no reason not to.
I once linked goatse in a context where it should've been clear it's goatse (it was a related discussion about shock sites or something), but without explicitly mentioning it by name. Somebody tracked me down on ICQ and asked me "why would you do that???" Still warms my heart to this day.