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You've missed a big point:
It's Microsoft's computer. It's not HP's, or Dell's. It's theirs.
If they do this properly (and hire a decent industrial designer) then they can work towards achieving the hardware / software integration that Apple has. Windows' huge albatross has always been it's need to support absolutely everything under the sun. The compromises, the bloat, the driver model - everything is predicated on this.
If they could be truly brave they'd go this course. With desktops, laptops and those phones they have lying around unused. Then maybe we'd see some magic.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: hen maybe we'd see some magic.
... For graphic designers, who, it must be said, are not even remotely close to being microsoft's core customers.
When are they going to build a machine for us -- i.e the people who made them rich beyond imagining?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: When are they going to build a machine for us -- i.e the people who made them rich beyond imagining?
The day right after you move to Linux. 
Jeremy Falcon
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I'll have to download the Murphy distro.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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$3000?!?! You can get the same for about a $1000 less from those doing it for years...
As today Microsoft seems like a new company searching its ways around...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Not the 28" super high-res multi-touch screen, which is what you're really paying for.
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Right...it is only 27"...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I'm confused.
Is it a tablet you can't carry around, or a PC you can't upgrade?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hmm ... Perhaps that's the idea.
Stick that under your arm, go for a walk, and tell people it cost $3K - they are going to assume it's the iPhone 8 ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Unfortunately it looks like what a prototype of the iMac may have looked like 2 years before the iMac release. Just before Steve wandered into the room, looked at the grey box under the screen, and yelled "what the F*** is that thing?".
Love the specs and the fact that it's Microsoft's own, but frankly I would have preferred them to simply make it a nice big touchscreen monitor I can use for my laptop if that meant they could slim it down.
One huge thing I love about my 27" iMac is I can pick it up with one hand and move it around. It's crazy solid. The double folding legs of the Studio don't fill me with confidence. I could be wrong, though.
Oh well - we'll see what Apple has up it's well designed sleeves today.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It seems that this is a progression of the "Surface" table that Microsoft demoed many years ago and is aimed at artists and the like who would work directly on the monitor, rather than have a wacom device or the like.
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Yeah - certainly seem that from the video.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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See you tomorrow. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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After months of not having internet on my home PC I'm finally back online.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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You were gone? 
Jeremy Falcon
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You were gone for 6 years and no one noticed! 
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Um, the dog ate my homework? 
Wait, wrong excuse.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Um, the dog ate my homeworkpassword?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Be gentle now! 
My gave me a smart phone and the library is not far away. But it's been a PITA.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Well, welcome back!
Jeremy Falcon
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Thanks it's nice to be able to work from my PC again.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Jeremy Falcon
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Mike Hankey wrote: months of not having internet on my home PC
 So...how does that happen?
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When monies short!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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