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Re: Windows 8 phone
« Reply #20 on: February 22, 2014, 08:22:00 PM »
Also, having now used the surface for work, I love it.  Its weight is great for one hand holding and typing, the battery life is damn good, and excel works oddly easily. 

Too bad the store sucks.

That's the great thing about the Surface (and probably why the store sucks) is that you don't need the store for anything.

Unless you're using the RT. That's unfortunate.
If you use the pro the battery life takes a nose dive(at least on the first gen).  For the rare times I need it, the RT works well.
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Re: Windows 8 phone
« Reply #21 on: February 22, 2014, 08:50:57 PM »
If you use the pro the battery life takes a nose dive(at least on the first gen).  For the rare times I need it, the RT works well.

Lower screen brightness, undervolt the components, and boom, better battery life than the RT.


I'll admit that's a workaround rather than an actual feature, though. Also installing real graphics drivers was a pain (which can also increase battery life by optimizing energy consumption). By real I mean Intel's latest and greatest, not the old garbage drivers available in the Surface Pro driver package.

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Re: Windows 8 phone
« Reply #22 on: February 24, 2014, 09:05:44 PM »
Its weight is great for one hand holding and typing
Stop trolling my thread. Those things are heavier than a Jew's wallet.

Your clients are bribing you. Does your work know this?
I got that phone direct from Nokia. Work know. They said I could have it.

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Re: Windows 8 phone
« Reply #23 on: February 24, 2014, 10:00:43 PM »
Its weight is great for one hand holding and typing
Stop trolling my thread. Those things are heavier than a Jew's wallet.
I never said it was light, I said the weight was good for one handed typing.  Some of us don't like typing on paper.
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Re: Windows 8 phone
« Reply #24 on: February 24, 2014, 10:34:57 PM »


How do you hold that in one hand? And if you take the keyboard off, surely now your typing hand is full?

Dave, its shit.

How do you use the desktop with touch? You can't point at anything because desktop windows is too small. And you can't do much from metro on a surface because the Windows behind it has all the real functionality, like your folders.

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Re: Windows 8 phone
« Reply #25 on: February 24, 2014, 11:25:50 PM »


How do you hold that in one hand? And if you take the keyboard off, surely now your typing hand is full?

Dave, its shit.

How do you use the desktop with touch? You can't point at anything because desktop windows is too small. And you can't do much from metro on a surface because the Windows behind it has all the real functionality, like your folders.

Ummm... I hold it in my left hand(flat) and type with my right.  If I have to show you a video I will. 
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« Reply #26 on: February 25, 2014, 05:14:19 AM »
That's two people, Thork, that have told you that the Surface can be easily held with one hand, but you continue to claim it is too heavy. Maybe you should start taking steroids, your arms are tiny and frail.

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Re: Windows 8 phone
« Reply #27 on: February 25, 2014, 06:29:45 AM »
Its weight is great for one hand holding and typing
Stop trolling my thread. Those things are heavier than a Jew's wallet.
Have you considered the possibility that it might just be you who's too weak?
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« Reply #28 on: February 25, 2014, 09:38:06 AM »
If I have to show you a video I will.
Do it!
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Re: Windows 8 phone
« Reply #29 on: February 26, 2014, 08:45:59 PM »
If I have to show you a video I will.
Do it!

Oh alright.


No, my voice is not that soft.  I spoke soft for effect.
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Re: Windows 8 phone
« Reply #30 on: February 26, 2014, 08:50:31 PM »
Yeah, don't speak soft again. that was terrifying.
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« Reply #31 on: February 26, 2014, 08:52:27 PM »
Read the FAQ before asking your question - chances are we already addressed it.
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Re: Windows 8 phone
« Reply #32 on: February 26, 2014, 08:58:06 PM »
That was awesome. You're the best.

I only hope it ends the debate.

Yeah, don't speak soft again. that was terrifying.
Really?  I'll have to practice it for Halloween then.
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« Reply #33 on: February 26, 2014, 08:59:38 PM »
That was awesome. You're the best.

I only hope it ends the debate.

Yeah, don't speak soft again. that was terrifying.
Really?  I'll have to practice it for Halloween then.

Everything else was fine, just... somehow you scared me, bro. Anyway, yes, you are the best.
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Re: Windows 8 phone
« Reply #34 on: February 26, 2014, 09:01:31 PM »
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Re: Windows 8 phone
« Reply #35 on: February 26, 2014, 09:07:21 PM »
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Re: Windows 8 phone
« Reply #36 on: February 26, 2014, 09:24:41 PM »
Dave looks exactly how literally everyone imagined him.

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« Reply #37 on: February 26, 2014, 09:26:04 PM »
Dave looks exactly how literally everyone imagined him.
Hot and sexy?
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« Reply #38 on: February 26, 2014, 11:06:58 PM »
Dave looks exactly how literally everyone imagined him.
We had already seen a very low-quality picture of him. It would be difficult not to have had a reasonably accurate imagination of him.
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Re: Windows 8 phone
« Reply #39 on: February 27, 2014, 01:13:21 AM »
He doesn't look like a lord, but he does look exactly like a Dave.