Lap(top) of luxury: Porsche Design revs up 2-in-1 Windows 10 slab Luxury brand Porsche Design has announced, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, its first 2-in-1 computer: a Windows 10 device that will be available in April 2017 for €2,795 or £2,395. According to chief design officer Roland Heller, the Book One is the first Windows device to have both a detachable keyboard and 360° …
Why do people have this urge to rush out spend and vast quantities of their own money on Stasi State Surveillance appliances to spy on them ?
Windows 10 Telemetry, Penal Tracking Bracelets, Google TV appliances that Watch you, Amazon devices that Listen to you ...
Fashion Victims are rapidly becoming Fascist Victims.
Just the opposite, the ones which do not participate willingly in the pervasive surveillance are lining up for the victim role.
I suggest you have a closer look at Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" towards the end - what does the police state do if it cannot get its victim du jour. Whose identity gets uploaded into the "dog's targeting computer"
Now I suggest you shut up and go buy some more Melania's sh*t. It is good for your "profile".
Those "inspired by sports car gearbox" gear hinges look kinda cool but look to me like it would pick up pocket fluff and crap like that at an alarming rate. I know, they could use something inspired by a sorts car's cam timing chain, that would solve this problem. Oh wait, it would look like the watch strap thing on the yoga900 or MS surface. Damn. Well fuck it we're going with inferior functinality but we're damned if we're not different.
Those "inspired by sports car gearbox" gear hinges look kinda cool but look to me like it would pick up pocket fluff and crap like that at an alarming rate.
Dude, it's a Porsche. You know you're going to be cleaning and polishing that thing all the time anyway, just to make sure it looks as expensive as it was. Might as well have a reason.
"Fiat used low-grade steel long before that, I seem to recall."
The Soviet steel supplies coincided with Fiat being part of a consortium with Citreon, Alfa Romeo and Maserati. All their cars from that era (1969 - 1974) were utter rust buckets. There still seem to be a lot of pre-1970 Fiats on the roads in Italy, and almost none from the 1970s or 1980s.
Would that be worse than the car that was actually built by the Italians and styled by the Japanese - The infamous Alfa Romeo Arna
Surely if you were going to build a joint Italian-Japanese car you'd get the Italians to style it and the Japanese to build it, not the other way round :)
If you wish to use a Surface Book in the «tent» position you have to first release the tablet section from the hinge, turn the tablet part round and reattach it to the keyboard dock. When you then wish to close the device again you have to detach it from the keyboard………… yes, I am sure you have got the picture. If you take a look at this link to “The Verge” you will see a picture series that appears to clearly show that this effort from Porsche Design can simply be flipped into the required position – a far more sensible arrangement IMHO.
http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/2/27/14754142/porsche-design-book-one-release-mwc-2017
MS knew this when the first Surface came out. To anticipate the negative their TV Ad showed grinning airheads skating and grinning and detaching and grinning and re-attaching the frigging keyboard as if it is the "latest, coolest, greatest, FUN" thing to do. It isn't.
Curiously a related piece here from Simon Sharwood reports IDC as predicting "a tiny ray of sunlight in future sales of touch-screen PCs with detachable screens".
Since we are into retro many here will recall the emergence of proto-phablets from Nokia with perfectly usable built-in physical keyboards in a mobile phone form factor. Then Google's G1 managed it with a slightly awkward but workable design. How is "detachable" an advance?
Actually it is easy to sort through Porsche stuff.
Is it an ugly SUV? - Don't buy it!
Is it a strange looking saloon? - Don't buy it!
Does it run on tractor juice? - Don't buy it!
Is it a two seat sports car with flat 6 behind the driver? - Buy it!
Is it a classic car designed by someone called Ferdinand? - Buy it!
Is it NOT a car? - NOPE!
Anything else? - Nope!
So buy your 1950s classics, your 911s, even the Boxster, but anything else - just no.
The saloon, easy, buy BMW M5, the new Alfa, Jaguar.
The SUV, (it is a VW under the skin), either Something from Solihull (RR Sport) or the original VW Toerag V10.
I do like the 911s, solid and very competent cars.
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