Imitation Surface?
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https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/eve-v-the-first-ever-crowd-developed-computer-laptop-tablet#/
These guys are making their own version of the Surface at a significant discount... Like Scott, I'm not a huge fan of the form factor.
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Haha... the average contribution for the backers is $719!!
Um.... the device is supposedly going for $399.... so why contribute so much..
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From what I have been reading, the heat dissipation issues in a form factor that size are causing the surfaces to last about 18 months.
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@DustinB3403 said in Imitation Surface?:
Haha... the average contribution for the backers is $719!!
Um.... the device is supposedly going for $399.... so why contribute so much..
You're mis-reading.
You only have to make a downpayment now. You have to pay the rest before it's mailed.
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Not a fan of the form factor but being not MS it might be usable.
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It's from a team in Helsinki Finland. I bet a bunch of ex-Nokia employees got together on this one. Given how well all my Nokia phones worked, I'm guessing this will be a solid device.
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@Mike-Davis said in Imitation Surface?:
It's from a team in Helsinki Finland. I bet a bunch of ex-Nokia employees got together on this one. Given how well all my Nokia phones worked, I'm guessing this will be a solid device.
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@scottalanmiller said in Imitation Surface?:
Not a fan of the form factor but being not MS it might be usable.
It just makes me wonder - MS has all those resources, yet the SP4 and Surface Book had huge hardware issues (mostly if not entirely driver related) that took them 9 month to fix.
I understand that it's a hard computer problem to solve - or so they tell us (sounds like Intel actually had a lot of blame on this last round of chips), so I don't know how this small team can really compete?
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@Dashrender said in Imitation Surface?:
@scottalanmiller said in Imitation Surface?:
Not a fan of the form factor but being not MS it might be usable.
It just makes me wonder - MS has all those resources, yet the SP4 and Surface Book had huge hardware issues (mostly if not entirely driver related) that took them 9 month to fix.
I understand that it's a hard computer problem to solve - or so they tell us (sounds like Intel actually had a lot of blame on this last round of chips), so I don't know how this small team can really compete?
MS has a lot of resources but is also crippled by politics.
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@scottalanmiller said in Imitation Surface?:
@Dashrender said in Imitation Surface?:
@scottalanmiller said in Imitation Surface?:
Not a fan of the form factor but being not MS it might be usable.
It just makes me wonder - MS has all those resources, yet the SP4 and Surface Book had huge hardware issues (mostly if not entirely driver related) that took them 9 month to fix.
I understand that it's a hard computer problem to solve - or so they tell us (sounds like Intel actually had a lot of blame on this last round of chips), so I don't know how this small team can really compete?
MS has a lot of resources but is also crippled by politics.
wow, that's a lot of cutting off of their nose to spite their face.
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@Dashrender said in Imitation Surface?:
@scottalanmiller said in Imitation Surface?:
@Dashrender said in Imitation Surface?:
@scottalanmiller said in Imitation Surface?:
Not a fan of the form factor but being not MS it might be usable.
It just makes me wonder - MS has all those resources, yet the SP4 and Surface Book had huge hardware issues (mostly if not entirely driver related) that took them 9 month to fix.
I understand that it's a hard computer problem to solve - or so they tell us (sounds like Intel actually had a lot of blame on this last round of chips), so I don't know how this small team can really compete?
MS has a lot of resources but is also crippled by politics.
wow, that's a lot of cutting off of their nose to spite their face.
This is no different than any other business, same applies here and we aren't even remotely large. The business doing intentionally harmful things to its self.
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@Dashrender said in Imitation Surface?:
@scottalanmiller said in Imitation Surface?:
@Dashrender said in Imitation Surface?:
@scottalanmiller said in Imitation Surface?:
Not a fan of the form factor but being not MS it might be usable.
It just makes me wonder - MS has all those resources, yet the SP4 and Surface Book had huge hardware issues (mostly if not entirely driver related) that took them 9 month to fix.
I understand that it's a hard computer problem to solve - or so they tell us (sounds like Intel actually had a lot of blame on this last round of chips), so I don't know how this small team can really compete?
MS has a lot of resources but is also crippled by politics.
wow, that's a lot of cutting off of their nose to spite their face.
Hard to get around politics when you are giant.
