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Yeah theoretically, but even though I'm allowed to use my work laptop privately, I don't really feel that it's a good idea.
And I want something lighter that I can also lend to my kids. So no.
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I have a Surface Pro 4 and can't recommend them them High enough
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Avoid the Chinese ones: they are fine to start with, but long term reliability (i.e. once the guarantee period expires) is poor. Every Chinese electronic device I've owned is dead, and while "disposable commodity" is good for manufacturers, I'm old enough to want stuff to last a while...
I have to say I'm impressed with Surface - to the point Herself is getting one for Christmas to replace her Samsung Galaxy Tab S, and that's still working perfectly ...
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That didn't leave many brands.
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The "Western designed, Chinese built" ones are generally OK - all iPhones are made in China - it's the ones designed and built by Chinese companies that you need to watch for, in my experience.
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Makes me curious actually, if you can mention any tablet designed in a western country besides Apple and Microsoft.
I'm not sure I can. (Or do Korea and Japan count as Western nowadays?)
Google designs theirs in Taiwan nowadays. Maybe Lenovo, they're Chinese, but they used to do the design in the US.
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And Samsung are Korean / Taiwan.
Good point.
I guess Korea and Japan count as "Western" ... 
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Korea and Japan count as Western nowadays?
Umm, have they moved geographically eastward much? 
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Not last time I checked.
I was merely questioning their (cultural/ technological/ whatever) belonging, since most tablets I know are not western.
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FWIW I've got an 18 month old Teclast T8 tablet that's still flawless. To the extent that it might matter it was one of their notionally higher end models ($250, 8") and has a solid metal body not cheap plastic.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Honestly, I've been investigating for a new tablet more than one month now because I need one for my soccer teams - yes, all soccer results in France must be handled using an app from the FFF that only works on *some* tablets with at least 10,1" screen... Well anyway, if not Apple, then Samsung tab S or Surface. All Asus, Archos, Lenovo, and whatever other brands can be ditched : not reliable, sluggish after a few months use - they are all mid-expensive, so you get at best mid-quality.
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Herself has a Tab S, few years old now, and still as nice as the day it was bought. Only criticism for Herself is the battery life and charging time: her Jigsaw app chews the battery (why?) and it takes 7 hours to recharge. It doesn't support Qualcom, so the standard Samsung charger is about the best you can do.
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Ah yes, USB-C and quick charge is on my list of things I want.
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I have a surface pro 4 and am very happy with it - bought it on Ebay - two years old absolutely immaculate in original packaging - 256GB disk 16GB memory i7 processor ~£700 - happy bunny
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I currently have the new Galaxy Tab 6E on the top of my list. I am running a Pixel C at the moment, and it is randomly rebooting, the volume down doesn't work and the wifi randomly drops out, so I am ready for a new one as well!
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Loving my 8GB Surface Go. Took it out of S Mode. Loaded my own UWP app; runs perfect; deploy to the Surface directly from Visual Studio on the PC (wireless).
Loaded VS2019 as a lark. Not sure about development (didn't bother) but fine for fixing stuff on the road. $700 CDN. Quality stuff (not using a physical keyboard or pen at this time though).
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Ok, this is rarely the case for me, but I'm definitely psyched about this one...
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1:26, the same location as the battle between Kirk and the Gorn captain. 
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They love this place. Four episodes of TOS, one episode of TNG, two episodes of Voyager, one episode of Enterprise and scenes for three of the movies were shot there.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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This area is known as Vasquez Rocks.
As CodeWraith says, at this point it's no longer just a coincidence; they intentionally keep going back to that location.
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Learned something new today: did not know androids aged! Time has not treated Data well! 
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He had a good excuse with the gray in the last episode. That shoeshine black is a bit too much.
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Yeah, Spiner looked like he could've used a few more coats of paint.
If they really wanted to spend the money on that sort of thing, I'm sure could've made him look a lot younger. I'm thinking specifically one of the X-Men movies, where they rather convincingly took decades off of both Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. But, I guess they don't have a movie budget...or they just decided it didn't matter much.
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The Expanse Season 4 - Official Teaser | Prime Video - YouTube[^]
Looking Good! Are they going to release it in "binge" mode or "dammit I want the next episode now" mode? Looks like "binge mode", but I'm not sure which is worse ... 
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Like a lot of movies, I hope the trailer isn't the best thing about it.
I'm also hoping Amazon can better produce a sci-fi TV show than Syfy, although Syfy sets a pretty low bar, which is why I couldn't get into the first three seasons no matter how hard I tried. It always left me with the same "I'm watching a cheap TV production" feeling I always get when watching some sci-fi series made in Canada like Andromeda, Continuum, Helix, Orphan Black and countless others.
Some of these could actually have been good (I'm thinking in particular of Orphan Black) but the most common fault I frequently find in series like these are the annoyingly repetitive background soundtrack, which can have whole series unwatchable. I don't know why, but I notice these in sci-fi series a lot more than any other genre.
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