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Menelaos Vergis wrote: My gf is a developer and she want to buy a new laptop
Why don't you let her decide what is a good machine for the kind of development she is doing.
I'd rather be phishing!
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How can you install Visual Studio on a tablet ? Is there a Visual Studio app ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Surface Pro 2 is more than a tablet - it's the one that runs the desktop properly.
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OK, so basically, it is a notebook with touchscreen.
/edit. Good God, $899 ??!!
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Or, an ultrabook as they are now being classified.
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Yes, that is what I meant actually.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Ultrabook is a specific Intel (trademarked) specification is it not?
This means you could still technically have a touchscreen notebook running an AMD processor which is not an Ultrabook.
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That is correct, but for the purposes of specifying what the intent of the device is, Ultrabook is a convenient moniker.
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Tablets are just normal notebooks without hardbound keyboards.
Windows 8 is a hybrid one. With one click you get into the App world and play games and in another click you can come back and work on excel with a crippled UI. 
Just kidding. The Win8 tabs feel good on hand. Some improvements are certainly needed though. For a home user, its a total package of ester eggs & hide n seek game.  My sister gave up on a simple challenge - "Try to shut down my W8 tablet in a minute" the basic options are not straight forward. Of course it's not just for tablets, in all W8 OSes versions in general.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Vunic wrote: Tablets are just normal notebooks without hardbound keyboards
Mmmhh... technically, yes, but I cannot install any program on my samsung galaxy, I don't have a file explorer ( what for anyway ?), etcc... I don't think this is possible from an iPad either...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Whatever I said applies only to W8 Device.
Yup android and iOS are for kids who can't handle it safe 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Was just curious, Why do we need to install VS on a tablet ? We can do all the development work at desktop or laptop and then just deploy our app to tablet.
Ranjan.D
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You know, make sure it isn't your boyfriend? Never heard of a female programmer : ) A
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Iris doesn't really exist. Iris is a gestalt entity composed of thirty normal developers.
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She is a bit hyper and don't think she even drinks coffee!
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then read sth from a female developer.
[atttention]your view of the world could be changed  [/attention]
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I have a Surface Pro and my new, shiny Surface 2 Pro 512 GB should be in my hands by tomorrow. I find my original Surface Pro indispensable, but I'm not sure that applies to everyone.
I do a lot of high end computing and travel. For that, the Surface Pro serves fine. I teach engineering courses and I can now carry just the Surface Pro, mark on PPT slides with the pen and also run fairly compute intensive engineering applications. For me it's perfect for that purpose.
I've also done development work on it. It is serviceable, but not pleasant due to the small size. With an external monitor it is OK, but I found the 128 GB limiting (which is why I'm now getting the new 512 GB version). The Type keyboard is OK for me, but I'd add a nice Bluetooth mouse if I were to use it as a desktop replacement. Currently I use the MS Wedge mouse, which is passable for portable use, but a little uncomfortable for my big hands.
I keep a lot of my work on my SkyDrive, so it is available on any of my machines. Honestly, I find typing and developing documents to be nicer on the desktop, but annotations are nicer on the Surface Pro. Quite often I have them both open to OneNote and edit on both devices as convenient.
My opinion, for a laptop the Surface Pro is quite serviceable. I have 3 other laptops available, but I rarely have a desire to carry one of them around. The Surface Pro is much more portable and, aside from the smaller screen size, works just as well as any of my high end laptops.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I have just down loaded a new version of Raspian Wheezy that should have the GPIO library installed,
I did try last Saturday a got nowhere with it (much swearing) tried at work and zip bang! got it expanded it fine. I only have my RISC OS pi with me, also no card writer in my current PC(s) so it have to wait until Saturday. Matter of interest I have seen a couple of PI articles here but generally not very much, I seem to remember a Mad Science forum being suggested and then nothing more about it... 
Glenn
<<hint>> not getting at anyone but there seems to be something going on<>
<<raw hide="" theme="">> Trollin', Trollin', Trollin', Keep Them<> sorry
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I have my 3rd pi article [episode 2] 'in progress' it is focused around the Gertboard. (info[^])
I have also another planned that is focused around the RasPi wireless dev platform Eve Alpha. (info[^]) which I received earlier this year.
+ a few other things I would like to do with them.
I also have the Adapteva Parallela Cluster due to arrive in the next few months, that could be fun (info[^])
Too much toys and not enough time...
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I'll give it a read, I have looked at getting a Gertboad and thought why not just connect the I2C to Ardrino a few darlington's and off I go! having said that time is always the enemy (just looking at that super computer Parallell thingy looks neat!)
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Look forward to that article Dave as I'm a big AVR proponent.
In fact it's a coincidence because I'm developing a somewhat similar board using a ATMega2560.
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Try and deal with tet troll and what happens? The pink porkyness of spam appears. 
I'd tear my hair out; if I had any.
speramus in juniperus
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Do not feed troll. The only thing when they will stop posting. Just Ignore.
"reporting their messages as spam" still makes it funny for them.
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I disagree, an infestation of this degree needs to stomped on.
speramus in juniperus
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