[QUOTE=onomatopellan;39476259]You have to use Disk Cleanup
[URL]http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/how-remove-windows-old-folder[/URL]
Also tune up your Cleartype
[url]http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/make-text-easier-to-read-using-cleartype[/url][/QUOTE]
What's wrong with his Cleartype?
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;39476074]Yeah, even your font seems fucked up.[/QUOTE]
It doesn't?
Are you using a VGA monitor that isn't properly adjusted?
Did they change something about the way wireless is handled in Windows 8 over Windows 7?
The reason I ask is because, since I installed Windows 8, my wireless card got really flaky. Now, it had been flaky before, but it was better before Windows 8. I did find, though, that unplugging one of the antenna cables has proven to "fix" it, although at a slower speed than it normally runs at.
Essentially, it's just dropping out every few seconds, and then reconnecting. My speedtest graphs look like a sawtooth knife or something. Really jagged, but dropping with a certain consistency.
Anybody know what's going on?
cleartype always fucks up in screenshots for me
[QUOTE=Strikebango;39428565]And being a german speaker understanding the numbers the norwegian woman says is kinda hard had to repeat the letters serveral times, but puh that was easy lol :v:[/QUOTE]
Why would you call the Norwegian costumer service, if you speak german? O.o
The same reason you call English tech support and its a bunch of Indians on the other side
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;39482557]The same reason you call English tech support and its a bunch of Indians on the other side[/QUOTE]
I tend to call the Norwegian costumer service :v: , but I get the point.
[editline]5th February 2013[/editline]
That's strange though.
As I don't think Norwegians works for less than Germans O.o
[QUOTE=Panda X;39476621]What's wrong with his Cleartype?[/QUOTE]
Nothing really, It looked blurry but that's because it was a quoted image.
Cleartype never looks good
[editline]5th February 2013[/editline]
Especially at nonstandard DPI values
Every time a folder refuses to be deleted I just boot into advanced settings so Windows boots into that cmd and remove the folder from there. Super easy with no friggin fiddling around.
every time, a folder won't delete, I reboot into Archlinux, and delete the shit out of the folder.
[editline]5th February 2013[/editline]
Or, take ownership of it, if it works.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;39483987]every time, a folder won't delete, I reboot into Archlinux, and delete the shit out of the folder.
[editline]5th February 2013[/editline]
Or, take ownership of it, if it works.[/QUOTE]
Because of how you wrote I felt you made fun of me :v:.
so what is a good email client for Windows? Like do any of them have notifications from the taskbar pinned icon?
Okay, from what I've gathered from the few reviews of Surface Pro out - meh battery, meh camera, and meh usability in the lap.
I'm still getting it. I don't get why people think 5 hours is horrendous, you're essentially buying a laptop. The Lenovo Z580 I have right now gets roughly 5 hours and [b]never have I found that to be inadequate[/b].
Nobody uses the camera on a tablet for anything other than skype.
And the lap thing sucks but it's whatever.
I'm excited.
try buying an actual laptop instead
[QUOTE=Jimmy422;39491233]Okay, from what I've gathered from the few reviews of Surface Pro out - meh battery, meh camera, and meh usability in the lap.
I'm still getting it. I don't get why people think 5 hours is horrendous, you're essentially buying a laptop. The Lenovo Z580 I have right now gets roughly 5 hours and [b]never have I found that to be inadequate[/b].
Nobody uses the camera on a tablet for anything other than skype.
And the lap thing sucks but it's whatever.
I'm excited.[/QUOTE]
I don't understand much of the critique as well - sometimes they'll compare it to a tablet, sometimes to an Ultrabook. It's like there's no middleground. Anyway, Haswell should improve stuff, and Microsoft should at least be able to match Acer battery-life wise. They managed some 6-7 hours, so it's a bit disappointing that Microsoft couldn't match that - that said, the battery tests on ArsTechnica, Engadget and TheVerge are retarded.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;39491998]I don't understand much of the critique as well - sometimes they'll compare it to a tablet, sometimes to an Ultrabook. It's like there's no middleground. Anyway, Haswell should improve stuff, and Microsoft should at least be able to match Acer battery-life wise. They managed some 6-7 hours, so it's a bit disappointing that Microsoft couldn't match that - that said, the battery tests on ArsTechnica, Engadget and TheVerge are retarded.[/QUOTE]
One of the review sites that they got 6 hours of web browsing out of it. I'd say that's fair. Plus they do all the tests at max brightness. In real life there have been very few times where i've actually had to do that.
Someone over at SA used one and these were his impressions
[QUOTE]- Too big and too heavy to use as a tablet
- Ran a little hot, which is ridiculous for a tablet device.
- Pulled the power connector off and saw remaining battery life: 3 hours and 57 minutes on a full charge. Even for a laptop that is pathetic. My shit house bulky i5 dell laptop from work can get almost the same battery life.
- Only nice thing was the screen and that wacom digitizer.[/QUOTE]
So yeah definitely just buy a laptop and if you need the wacom for whatever reason get a Thinkpad with a Wacom or something, not this overpriced garbage.
[editline]6th February 2013[/editline]
[url]http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/02/microsoft-surface-with-windows-8-pro-hotter-thicker-faster-louder/[/url]
The Ars review isn't overwhelmingly positive either especially when you account for the price.
Anandtech's review makes it out to be pretty much what I expected: [url]http://www.anandtech.com/show/6695/microsoft-surface-pro-review[/url]
The problem as I see it is very well illustrated by the quote in your post, Protocol7 - people compare it to tablet's when they want to, and laptops when they want to.
Because it can't compete as an ultrabook or a tablet. About the only good thing about it is the pen and [URL="http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/docked-pen-640x426.jpg"]they still managed to fuck it up.[/URL]
[editline]6th February 2013[/editline]
And hell, even Ars agrees that the kickstand design fundamentally doesn't work.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;39494244]Because it can't compete as an ultrabook or a tablet. About the only good thing about it is the pen and [URL="http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/docked-pen-640x426.jpg"]they still managed to fuck it up.[/URL][/QUOTE]
So they should've put the pen in a holster on the tablet? I don't that would've made the size any better.
It is neither an Ultrabook nor a tablet - it's smaller, and lighter than any Ultrabook, and its battery life isn't any worse than the Macbook Air 11": [url]http://www.anandtech.com/show/6063/macbook-air-13inch-mid-2012-review/8[/url]
Its display is better, and the asking price lower, though you'll probably need to invest in the type cover as well - but then you'd need to include touch screen and stylus in the Macbook Air's price to even things out.
It's not a bad piece of hardware - straight out. Sure, it won't give you both the full Ultrabook and Tablet experience, but both sides are decent at the very least. I'd still prefer a convertible, but you're making it out to be terrible, and event TheVerge's review doesn't reflect that in any way.
I just realised the upgrade offer doesn't end until the end of february so I'm probably going to get that but I'm just wondering can the "upgrade key" be used twice on two different computers (with different win7 keys) or will I have to buy it twice?
[QUOTE=SappinMyNick;39494362]I just realised the upgrade offer doesn't end until the end of february so I'm probably going to get that but I'm just wondering can the "upgrade key" be used twice on two different computers (with different win7 keys) or will I have to buy it twice?[/QUOTE]
One license per computer.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;39494353]So they should've put the pen in a holster on the tablet? I don't that would've made the size any better.
It is neither an Ultrabook nor a tablet - it's smaller, and lighter than any Ultrabook, and its battery life isn't any worse than the Macbook Air 11": [url]http://www.anandtech.com/show/6063/macbook-air-13inch-mid-2012-review/8[/url]
Its display is better, and the asking price lower, though you'll probably need to invest in the type cover as well - but then you'd need to include touch screen and stylus in the Macbook Air's price to even things out.
It's not a bad piece of hardware - straight out. Sure, it won't give you both the full Ultrabook and Tablet experience, but both sides are decent at the very least. I'd still prefer a convertible, but you're making it out to be terrible, and event TheVerge's review doesn't reflect that in any way.[/QUOTE]
Even the Verge agrees that it's too much for a tablet, and compared to a laptop the kickstand takes up more space than a MacBook Pro, is unusable on an actual lap, and the lack of adjustable kickstand angle ruins the whole portable PC aspect of the device.
Quoth the Verge - "both Surface models feel clumsy and awkward. You're much better off with a device like the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13, or really any device that's a laptop first and something else second."
[editline]6th February 2013[/editline]
Their blurb next to the score even says "IT TRIES TO DO EVERYTHING, BUT MISSES DOING ANYTHING REALLY WELL."
[QUOTE=The Baconator;39491203]so what is a good email client for Windows? Like do any of them have notifications from the taskbar pinned icon?[/QUOTE]
the one that comes with windows 8 is pretty good. I have connected 5 different accounts and it works pretty well.
however the notifications sometimes work. (it might be that I have the application open, and thus it won't display notifications because I'm already viewing it on metro, sorta) Fortunately I get them whenever I receive an important email
Thunderbird is pretty good, even if development has slowed down a bit.
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;39494653]Thunderbird is pretty good, even if development has slowed down a bit.[/QUOTE]
Personally I prefer that development stop. What features need to be added still? The thing is an email client after all.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;39494229]Anandtech's review makes it out to be pretty much what I expected: [url]http://www.anandtech.com/show/6695/microsoft-surface-pro-review[/url]
The problem as I see it is very well illustrated by the quote in your post, Protocol7 - people compare it to tablet's when they want to, and laptops when they want to.[/QUOTE]
because it's trying to be a laptop and a tablet and sucks at both??
[QUOTE=Lazor;39499272]because it's trying to be a laptop and a tablet and sucks at both??[/QUOTE]
I think Surface suffers from its initial hype. I wouldn't give 7.5 to a device that sucks - In fact that's a pretty good score. It's just that the surface ended up being much less than what it was expected to be.
The surface is a decent product, it's just not the second coming of Jesus christ.
[editline]7th February 2013[/editline]
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[QUOTE=Protocol7;39494414]Even the Verge agrees that it's too much for a tablet, and compared to a laptop the kickstand takes up more space than a MacBook Pro, is unusable on an actual lap, and the lack of adjustable kickstand angle ruins the whole portable PC aspect of the device.
Quoth the Verge - "both Surface models feel clumsy and awkward. You're much better off with a device like the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13, or really any device that's a laptop first and something else second."
[editline]6th February 2013[/editline]
Their blurb next to the score even says "IT TRIES TO DO EVERYTHING, BUT MISSES DOING ANYTHING REALLY WELL."[/QUOTE]
Ugh, I absolutely fucking hate the Verge. Bunch of apple fanboy bullshit in every damn article they write. Their review was like "IT MAKES A LITTLE BIT OF FAN NOISE THAT IS A SUPER CON AND ANY OTHER TABLET LIKE THE iPAD WOULDN'T DO THAT."
This thing shouldn't be classified as an ultrabook nor a tablet. It's its own category, a Tablet PC. You can't compare it to an iPad because it's got a whole different level of power, and you can't compare it to an Ultrabook because it's a completely different form factor.
Personally I'd love any other tablet or hybrid device like the Yoga. There's only one problem. [b][u]NO FUCKING OEM WILL ADD A PEN DIGITIZER TO ANY DECENT DEVICE THEY MAKE[/u][/b] Seriously, right now it's like "Pick any two: horsepower, pen, good battery life". There's like 3 tablets with a pen and good battery but, surprise surprise, they're Intel Atom. There's also plenty of convertables, such as the yoga, which have horsepower and great battery life, but guess what, no pen. I don't understand why it's so damn hard to throw the extra digitizer layer on to the LCD and call it a day. [b]LENOVO, LISTEN, JUST ADD THE PEN INTO THE YOGA AND I WILL GIVE YOU ALL OF MY MONEY.[/b]
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