* Posts by thekswenson

3 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Aug 2017

Microsoft's Surface Pro 2017, unhinged: Luxury fondleslab that's good...

thekswenson

"the strange smoothed fabric" on the keyboard

It looks like you haven't figured out what the "the strange smoothed fabric" on the keyboard is for yet...

remove it and turn it over. Put it on the stupidly shiny screen and move it around.

Notice that there are no more fingerprints.

thekswenson

Using the surface tablet as paper.

Nobody seems to mention just how nice this thing is for taking notes and marking up documents.

For those of you who work conceptually, and aren't just banging away on the keyboard all day, this is the biggest reason to like the surface.

My handwriting on the surface is completely natural. It has changed the way I work since I can easily mark corrections on texts, as well as correspond using figures. A picture is often worth a thousand words.

It's a shame that microsoft is incompetent at software development. There is no excuse for the release of a system this buggy on their own hardware.

My Ubuntu installation is now nicer than windows 10, but unfortunately has the MAJOR drawback of not being able to sleep due to the stupid "connected standby" invention (that Microsoft can't even get their software right with).

thekswenson

Sleep of Death

So, did microsoft take care of the sleep of death issues that have plagued SP4 users for the last three years?

My problems with SoD were just finally resolved with an update last month, after a year of having a laptop that doesn't sleep for more than 20 minutes without crashing.

The update seems to have made my camera unstable. Microsoft are a bunch of clowns.

They've managed to ruin this outstanding piece of hardware.