If this thing garners good reviews and turns out to be viable, I might just pick one up around May 2020 when they will have likely depreciated by 40-50%
You mean when they go EOL then?
How long will Samsung/Microsoft guarantee updates etc for them? With all the documented issues with Surface things and especially their short life before they are EOL'd I'd be very careful about spending hard earned money on things like this.
As they say, the devil will be in the details of the EULA that is burried 10 stories down in Samsungs HQ and guarded by a very hungry Tiger.
All of them were EOL, yet all of them worked fine as consumption devices.
So not as actual iPads then.
Sounds like someone who’s had their expectations beaten down by the planned obsolescence everyone accuses Apple of but others practice.
Small quibble with the article's title. I think there should be an asterisk associated with that 23 hr battery claim. I really think the 23 hr claim shouldn't even be mentioned in the title, but that's just me. It's a bit of theater by Samsung to promote battery life by looping a locally stored video. As stated in the article, no wifi or celluar use. Not really a basis to honestly claim 23 hrs.
Otherwise, I'm excited to see what improvements have been made for x86 on ARM. If this thing garners good reviews and turns out to be viable, I might just pick one up around May 2020 when they will have likely depreciated by 40-50%
Given that’s all the product is fit for maybe it’s not so unreasonable. Windows is little more than a browser host and consumption platform these days. I’d be interested to see performance under x86 emulation- but not really.
They should have called it Galaxy Book RT, that really helped Microsoft ship the Surface.
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Sounds like someone who’s had their expectations beaten down by the planned obsolescence everyone accuses Apple of but others practice.
Given that’s all the product is fit for maybe it’s not so unreasonable. Windows is little more than a browser host and consumption platform these days. I’d be interested to see performance under x86 emulation- but not really.
They should have called it Galaxy Book RT, that really helped Microsoft ship the Surface.