paul turner

cynicalmacuser said:

No thanks. The notch is ugly takes up valuable screen real estate.

So genius how would you have designed it and where would you have put the sensors where the notch is? Cmon cintribute something rather than sitting on you ass criticizing , that easy!

"I assume IDC has some form of reasonably accurate retail sales metrics"

well there you have it.... are you sure... lol, IDC is in the business of making money that means they must keep their customers happy and buying into the hype.


Perhaps you should ask the question who their customers actually are. Then you might start to get the truth?

I don’t care how fast it is, without a identical functioning windows like  version of excel with same updates  its useless to me.

Soli said:

1) If you're going to be a criminal then don't use a fricken a biometric (which I shouldn't be telling them, but I figure if they were smart enough to come to this forum then they'd already know better).

2) I'm glad he was dumb enough to use Face ID if it gets a child pornographer and child abuser off the streets.

3) Slight segue, but still very much the same issue: a recent study has shown that the one thing all human traffickers have in common is that they use the internet for sales. I wish we had better tools to stop this.

Did you know that the definition of sex trafficking is broader than you realize: it does not only include pimps who coerce women into pristitution but also a john who happens to be caught in a sting can also be arrested for it now 

racerhomie3 said:

If you suspect the cops or FBI are after you disable FaceID or TouchID by triggering Emergency SOS mode.

People do not need to have "something to hide" in order to hide "something". What is relevant is not what is hidden, rather the experience that there is an intimate area, which could be hidden, whose access should  be restricted. Psychologically speaking, we become individuals through the discovery that we could hide something from others.

Julian Assange states: "There is no killer answer yet. Jacob Appelbaum (@ioerror) has a clever response, asking people who say this to then hand him their phone unlocked and pull down their pants. My version of that is to say, 'well, if you're so boring then we shouldn't be talking to you, and neither should anyone else', but philosophically, the real answer is this: Mass surveillance is a mass structural change. When society goes bad, it's going to take you with it, even if you are the blandest person on earth.

I have a similar  same problem with the POS Lenova Laptop I am forced to use at work. I have narrowed the problem down to it being an issue with the interrupt system in Windows. Basically its defective. What I do is make sure I never open  the display , but only move the attached mouse or  press a keyboard key to make the external display respond. Opening the laptop necessitates a complete hard reboot to get any response from the peripherals because experience (years of trial and error) has told me it thinks there are no peripherals attached when the display is opened up. Those buffoons at MS prolly are still using the desktop Windows kernel with the Surface and trying to get it to work with all that old crappy code. The windows memory Manager is a complete and utter mess of obfuscated code , read: It can't really unfrag its heap or anything else for that matter. Putting a windows system to sleep is akin to death.

  I'd wager the kernal has "forgotten" where the cursor is after sleeping. I bet the memory manager has corrupted the cursor address and so on wake it can't figure out what to wake up freeze, or goes off to some address that leads to a freeze. Do you have peripherals attached.? It might be the same issue. In fact  I have owned several pc laptops over the years and invariably they start exhibiting this behavior.

 I don't know why it is I guess it has to do with crappy HW quality and the kernal Windshit OS. Its hard to believe that MS can still not fix such elementary things like this work. Oh wait, I'm not really THAT surprised there is minimal Quality  Control or basic testing done at MSFT is there, we are beta testers duh. Bill Gates pitched us a POS

I'm looking very much forward to retiring in one year, so I will never ever ever ever have to use a Windows based computer again. Until then its just the one of many annoyances I have to deal with at the office.

This problem which  is one of 1000's that Windows has is the reason why consumers are buying macs in droves and moving to mobile devices that actually work. If you think about it. I'm glad that Microsofts Mobile strategy is failing. At least they won't inflct any more damage on the more gullible   users who might fall for their sales tactics!

I just love it when someone, knowing I'm a techy, asks me to fix some annoyance on their Windows machine and I reply "I stopped using PC's after XP . I moved to a mac, sorry I can't help you!". I never say  , "you stupid fool- you shouldn't have bought that POS cheap garbage in the first place" that would be cruel, I let them figure it out the hard way for themselves- As the original idiot who bought into the surface hype did- I just think it. And he paid $4000 for it lol jeez what a bozo. I don't suppose he will be buying another Surface? HE WOULDN'T BE THAT STUPID WOULD HE?

great- now in our house my teenager will be able  to send fart sounds to all our devices thx aapl right in middle of dinner, shows etc a hackers heaven

I got mine 2 mins after midnight on Verizon website supposed to be delivered Fri Nov 3rd, Oh and today's rise in aapl stock has already paid for it 3 times over

nunzy said:

That's why they call it a BETA. Watch the haters swarm, though.

Yup i counted several morons who have done that, they are idiots, no freaking clue what beta really means! 

Save your money , go to goodwill there you  will find plenty of perfectly good high travel clunky  keyboards for  $2 each.