Re: Free delivery better

Nope. Everything arrives next day or the day after depending when I order.

Although I will say their free delivery is pretty good, way better than play.com.

Re: How to judge Win 8 popularity

How true. So many people deliberately won't learn how to use the bloody Ribbon so they can complain it's too difficult, while their parents struggle for an hour or two and then get on with it.

Re: I tried it, finally

What are you messing about with the GUI for anyway? Aren't you a proper server guy?

Re: Fugly..

I'm sorry, _Linux_ users are complaining about an OS that doesn't come perfectly tuned to their needs out of the box, and benefits from customisation?! Isn't that exactly the kind of thing you love doing on a Saturday night?

Re: Still with the tincy-wincy liddle screen?

Why would they have to fragment? They could release the iPhone5 resolution on a bigger screen or the iPad mini resolution on a smaller one.

Re: Yawn...

A bit like Samsung then.

Re: "affordable"

Definitely a subject worthy of swear words.

Re: Not a chance this will work out for Tesco

I think you're 2nd point is a load of BS. Club card is entirely to make sure you always shop at Tesco not at competitors. They wouldn't put all those deals together for 4X voucher value if getting you to spend the vouchers in-store was their main gambit.

Rather they are much cleverer, and get people hooked to using vouchers as the foundation for their dining out... always buy Tesco 'cos it means we get to eat out for free.

And I'm not sure your first point is much cop either. Amazon is a massive hit in the UK, as is Tesco itself outside the traditional groceries.

Re: Steam

>>but only "view" one movie at a time.

So now I need an always-on internet connection to view my downloaded content on the move? It's almost like it's more complicated than you naively imagine.

Re: Meanwhile, Amazon screws the creators

That's ok, nobody wanted to read your books anyway. Which is what's going to happen if you don't go through a big reseller :)

Re: @Lunatik re Tesco haters

Why Tesco hating rather than Sainsbury or Amazon... Amazon now corner the market in pretty much everything BUT perishable groceries!

Wonder if we'll ever see an Amazon supermarket!

Re: Greed

Ha.

Re: An injection moulded magnesium chassis?

>>There's distinctly more chance of a lithium fire causing a magnesium fire than there is of a couple of protons causing planetary annihalation.

In the same way that there is more chance of being struck by lightning than the LHC destroying the planet. If you get your device into a situation it could catch fire, you already have enough problems.

Re: Greed

It's about as greedy as you expecting a pay-rise. Seriously, is there some connection between being left-wing and being blindingly stupid?

Re: more Tesco digital stuff

Yeah you wouldn't want low quality bits would you? <rollseyes/>

Re: DO NOT BUY - Unavoidable limited life

Any component has a limited life.

Re: An injection moulded magnesium chassis?

In the same way that we shouldn't run the LHC in case it creates a planet-sucking black hole.

Re: Everything is now Square.

I installed IE10 on Win7. It looks exactly like IE9 to me.

Re: So...

So you want to make people think Linux is malware by installing it on their PCs via a botnet? Great thinking.

Re: A very expensive mobile computing solution

>>And 80GB is a tiny amount if you are working with modern software and images.

Then it's odd the W7 PC I use 8+ hours a day for my job as a software developer as well as for miscellaneous home PC user stuff is only up to 120Gb after 4 whole years, including all the old git/svn working copies lying around, my personal music collection, and all the crud copied from my last desktop "in case I might need it".

I repeat, you should not be storing everything on your surface in the first place, therefore 80Gb is loads of space... considering most tablets are 16/32Gb it should be pretty blindingly obvious that even 50Gb of free space is plenty, and therefore the couple of GB you lose for a Linux install is hardly a problem... surely your Linux/Win partitions can share files or you could even install Linux on a bootable SD or something along those lines.

Re: Dell have beaten them to it

Why does anyone want to spend £1k on an ultrabook?

Re: EU lost the plot

They are not using a dominance in one market to influence another. If Android had 99% of mobile then perhaps it would be the same.

Re: "Whoops!"

I can't see it being deliberate really, daft to expect nobody would notice much sooner. All we learn is that the two sides are equally incompetent.

Re: Who cares

Eadon you forgot to login.

Dying platform? Windows desktop dominance is the one bit of the OS landscape which ISN'T really changing. No matter how much MS screw up, Linux still can't stumble to victory.

Re: Take the money

FOSS shouldn't need EU handouts...

Re: do for building what Linux did for software

"this time next year Rodders"

Re: A very expensive mobile computing solution

If only you could use external storage with Surface Pro.

Of course some of us would find the 80Gb or so free space on the 128Gb version is fine for work and Linux. You possibly don't realise how much space 80Gb is... if you don't fill the thing up with video it's a lot. 20Gb used to be OK for a desktop and PDFs/doc files are not really bigger than they were back then.

You shouldn't be using a tablet to store all your stuff.

anything the Surface Pro can do that could not be done by a similarly spec'd laptop

Couldn't you say the same about ultrabooks?

Re: A very expensive mobile computing solution

How do you know it "doesn't quite work" when it hasn't been released yet?

And why on earth do you think this is based on Server 2012... isn't it desktop W8? Actually since Pro is just x86, which edition of W8 is it anyway? And couldn't you set it to dual boot Linux+W8 or W7+W8 or whatever?

No. I just upgraded from IE9 to IE10 on W7 and the basic interface is basically identical... I wasn't even sure it had installed until the "welcome to IE10 tab opened".

Re: Just the usual question..

>>I think they will need to have more than just one copy to cover the different language requirements and possibly even 'Board of Film Censor' or whatever each country calls them

Then they're not the same files are they.

Re: Just the usual question..

Yeah but who really cares. Why is the US government going to demand a list of the MP3s you bought?

There are good deals although often they are similar to deals you can get through food club memberships or mailing lists. Once in a while something good comes along.

Re: Soap bubble

Revenues of $600million suggest they are hardly marginalised just yet.

Re: Magic Touch tech which means you can fondle your slab while wearing gloves

I don't want to buy special gloves, I have ones which I like.

Sewing thread isn't an option on waterproof ones but you can buy little finger-stickers or so I hear. Maybe worth a look on Amazon

Re: Just the usual question..

It's not personal data, it's music and films and apps on their store. They keep one copy of each file and record who is allowed to access it.

Is it a massive problem if someone finds out you bought Justin Bieber's album?

Re: Really lovely?

Isn't FF the one that's going to be all JS/HTML - basically the same idea as ChromeOS? Or was that a rumour only?

Re: I'm not suprised

My £150 WP lasts about a week between charges and has rebooted perhaps 4 times in the 6 months I've had it - I'd rather it rebooted than just locked up :)

Why does it need an iPlayer app, isn't iPlayer going HTML5 which is supported in IE10 (this is a guess I haven't tried).

It's got niggles and flaws but I've not really spotted bugs as such.