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What were those sites that had corporate/business refurb & open box Surfaces? I'm looking at getting either the SP10 or SP11 Intel(not the SD) variant. I remember CDW, but forget what the other sites were.
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It's been a moment since I've been here. Surface Pro 7+ has been doing well after 5 years(well technically 3 years as this is a warranty replacement). Today I the camera drivers caused the device to crash. That usually happens like twice a month. Then later today I noticed a diagonal hairline crack on the display, only noticeable at certain angles. I think these are signs it's time to upgrade.
I like the 12" size. Besides the Framework 12 & Surface Pro 12" what are the other pen enabled options in the under 13" size? FW 12 looks very good, but the upgraded display probably wont be out until another year. The 12" should offered the Snapdragon X Pro cpu over the plus & user swappable SSD(like my 7+). Would rather do X Pro cpu if I am going to try another ARM Windows device. Yoga 11 ARM flashbacks(no pen…
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Pot Committed...just saw Gurman's final rumor mongering on the iPhone Fold/Ultra - it will be named iPhone Duo (sorry Microsoft, you blew it AGAIN). But more importantly, it will support Apple Pencil. So now I have about 30 days (not showing up until October, and waiting list likely to go to Christmas) to get the kidney sold - starts at $1999 (actually better than I thought - see how "raitonalization" works), but my guess is 512gb storage is a minimum of $2400. Just checked my 3 year old iPhone 15 Pro Max and it is only using 107gb of its 512gb...hmmmmm
I cant tell if the use of the Duo name is an homage to MS or just an FU. Not being an applephile, I did not see the introduction. Did they show the pen? They would really crush it if they made a small pen that fits the Duo's size. I'm hoping this forces Samsung to get off its butt and put a pen back in the fold.
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RANT INCOMING WARNING!
I just saw a headline this morning that the nearly new MacBook Neo is now available in the Apple Refurb Store for - get this - the SAME price it was released at BEFORE the recent $100 (17%) price INCREASES. What a deal - it's like the good old days of retail groceries where the store either raised the price or decreased product (remember 5lb bags of sugar suddenly becaome 4lb bags) then "put it on sale" for the same old price?
And it is far from Apple though - M$ raised their prices an astronomical amount in June, but third party retailers a month to 6 weeks later have "sales" just above the previous prices.
I understand that data centers are devouring high end ram and vendors are switching production to that profitable market (data centers are announced weekly in Texas), but this has all the…
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Samsung has officially announced that it will launch the next generation of Galaxy Tab before the end of the year.
While there are plenty of rumours regarding performance upgrades for the new Tab S12 series, I haven't found any mention of the stylus. We haven't seen a significant evolution of the S Pen across multiple Galaxy Tab generations. Even though the Tab S11 version brought a marginal improvement to pen tilt by redesigning the nib, the underlying technology remains identical.
Do you think there is any chance that Samsung will launch a new stylus in the short or medium term to compete on par with the Wacom Movink or Cintiq Pro?
The problem is, Samsung has a share in Wacom, or Wacom in Samsung, something like that. From what I recall, they basically have a deal where only Wacom gets the pro level pens, and Samsung uses the step down. They're never going to directly compete unless that relationship deteriorates, and if that happens, it probably means Samsung loses EMR and gets way worse.
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I can't tell you how many speculative articles last Spring were sure that the SPen was coming back. No chance. Nobody seems to miss it. For me, it's keeping me on my Fold 6. I use it all the time. Haven't had a chance to look at the Motorola in person. Too damn busy.
On another front, I had a demonstration of Claude the other day that really impressed me. Not that it was correct in its attempts at analysis but in the ability to dig details out of a stack of documents that were relevent. It set me back on my heels a bit and might have muted my criticism of AI generally by quite a bit. If I was a young lawyer, I'd be paying attention to this.
I guess I've moved on from penabled Galaxy devices as I don't find myself missing the pen on the Z fold 7 a full year into using it. Maybe because there's been no way to carry the pen with the fold series. Or maybe my SD og with the slim pen with magnetic attachment serves my inking needs for now.
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I guess I signed up for a raffle that determines whether or not I have a chance to buy it. Went with the 512 GB because if I get this, I can take the extra 2 TB NVMe SSD out of my laptop and use it. It has Linux on it, which I won’t be using if I have a Steam Machine.
Edit: it’s pretty unimpressive in the reviews… darn it. I will probably cancel before the raffle. My M4 Pro Mac mini plays Windows games better via CrossOver, though it doesn’t have all the compatibility I would have with Steam Proton. And if I really want to play a game that doesn’t work on my Mac mini I still have my RTX 4060 gaming laptop with stripped-down Windows 11.
Edit 2: Cancelled. Regardless of pros and cons it doesn’t make any sense in my current situation. The money…
Dave2D has probably the clearest, most straightforward review. Somewhat positive despite the title.
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I didn’t notice when it was announced a week ago, but Microsoft and Nvidia are partnering in the use of the new RTX Spark silicon in the next gen of Windows PCs. QUALCOMM’s Windows on ARM deal has expired. Is Microsoft dumping them?
From the article: "...Spark is set to change the way you interact with Windows PCs forever with an AI agentic twist...."
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I've been rather busy recently, so I haven't had the time to get on here.
Firstly, who of us are still around? It's good to see a number of us still around, although Kuma seems to be AWOL; we're missing the innuendoes!
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ZenBook Duo
The ASUS ZenBook Duo (2025) has been serving me well. The battery life isn't great and I'd even say bad when using two displays (no surprise). The keyboard occasionally has a spaz out, but can be quickly fixed. The docks I have to use are temperamental with it and really don't like the dual displays.
The MPP is atrocious. I can barely use it even with stroke smoothing. I draw on other devices and transfer it over it's so unusable. Not to mention the included stylus just straight up died.
MPP 2.6 is barely usable if you are not a digital artist concerning about wobbles when slowly drawing diagonal lines. ASUS ZenBook Duo (2025) has MPP 2.0, which is unusable even if you are a note-taker (as decade-long-term user of Wacom EMR).
CDW is the big fish, but other ones woud be Insight, SHI, and Connection. CDW is sort of unique since they are both a Commerical Reseller and a Distirbutor, whereas the other three are purely Commerical Resellers. Refurbs and Open Box's however are not that common to find.