Huawei missed memo that PC's dead – so here are three new notebooks Huawei this week launched three Intel devices running Windows 10: a slim notebook, a Surface-a-like 2-in-1, and a conventional 15.6" laptop. “We want to bring a full range of products for your digital life including a smartphone, a smart tablet, smart watch, wearable devices, and also notebooks, the PC,” said Richard Yu, CEO …
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Where on earth do you get the figure of five hours before needing to re charge your headphones?
I have used Bluetooth phones for years and never have I had them run out of charge i such a short time.
And another point nobody ever mentions. Using wired 'phones tells any would be thief just which pocket your telephone is in…
Cheers… Ishy
"Borrowing a feature from Huawei smartphones, the power button on the MateBook X doubles as a fingerprint sensor, giving you one-touch power and log-on."
Would this not result in inadvertently pressing the power button? I guess a gentle touch is required!
The smaller devices have lots of pixels so why did they revert to HD for the larger device?
Could the cost of an equivalent his res 15in screen be too expensive?
Is the bios locked (Secure boot) so it can only run Windows? Otherwise a nice bit of kit but too expensive IMHO for a Linux netbook.
My main Linux machines are not cheap. They're overpowered monsters. I actually do stuff with my computers.
I have a number of Linux based appliances that use cheap kit because the task allows it. I wouldn't put much power in a device that's a glorified terminal either.
Something should be no more or less expensive than the task requires. Quality should win out over cheapness. Many of us dumped other options not because Linux is cheap but because the other options were crap.
Secure boot on Linux is no problem, just do a search on it, and the first thing I would do if I bought one would be to put Linux on it. A multi boot perhaps but I doubt it as I skipped them years ago.
Too expensive, well it would be nice not to pay anything for the Windows if you decide to dump it but I don't really care about that.
But is seems that Microsoft has decreed that laptops shall have a touch screen like their Surface things.
The doids in PC-World will be flogging the hell out of any device that has touch even if like my, you want a matte display and certainly no fingerprints allowed. Greasy fingers stop me from doing real work.
I agree, but all the 20 somethings I know actually use the touch screen on their laptops, so I think even Apple will eventually be forced to give in and put a touchscreen on them. Just because it has one doesn't mean you have to use it, though it would be nice if it remains an order time option. The HP laptop I bought last fall had a touch screen option, which I declined to save $50 and an ounce or so.
Really I find that hard to believe. Phones and tablets are fine for people who want to consume data off the network, and occasionally send a short message or a photo. But for people who actually want to do some work and create something, a netbook is a minimum requirement, and ideally something bigger and meatier. Who would consider writing anything longer than a tweet on a phone keyboard with predictive text? If Tolstoy had had to use a tablet War and Peace would be about 1000 words rather than 1000 pages.
Gartner's 'analysis' is not based on reality. The PC market is a mature market for both hardware and software and has been for several years. Many home users will reduce the number of PCs with time as they often do not need to use one; a phone or tablet is more than adequate. The market is recalibrating to a lower unit sales per year. But if one wants to play in the market one must introduce new kit to peak people's interest. The PC market is much like the appliance or auto markets. New models are introduced all the time to grab market share from the competitors.
Not interested either in struggling over whatever UEFI / Boot / Bios barriers M$ & manufactures have conspired to put in... Wake up PC makers. You're all Microsoft's bitches... Show some backbone, independence, whatever.... But offer Linux pre-installed or include it as an option. Otherwise I'm in the holdouts maintaining existing rigs indefinitely and not buying new hardware!
"Microsoft came up with the Surface design"
Surely this should read "Asus came up with the Transformer design, which was later copied by a bunch of other people including Microsoft"? Although technically Compaq actually came up with it nearly a decade earlier, unfortunately for them before the hardware was really up to the task. And unlike many other cases like this, MS aren't the ones that took the idea and made it popular, they just jumped on an already popular bandwagon along with pretty much everyone else.
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