Re: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-04 Thread DotNet Dude
On Wednesday, 5 July 2017, mike smith wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 4:37 PM, DotNet Dude > wrote: > >> Have you seen where the power button is on the keyboard? Lol no thanks >> >> >> Is it a

RE: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-04 Thread 罗格雷格博士
Yep, been ok, but mostly use it with a mouse anyway Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.com |http://greglow.me From:

Re: Context menus for .sln file

2017-07-04 Thread mike smith
x86 vs x64 locations of registry?(assuming you run with x64 Windows) On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Hopefully I'm not breaking any rule to give Directory Opus a plug, it's >> great for this stuff and loadsmore. >> > > That's an impression utility, and

Re: Context menus for .sln file

2017-07-04 Thread Greg Keogh
> > Hopefully I'm not breaking any rule to give Directory Opus a plug, it's > great for this stuff and loadsmore. > That's an impression utility, and it looks like it implements custom context menus, but it's far to heavy-handed for my modest needs. I was hoping to just tweak a few registry

Re: Context menus for .sln file

2017-07-04 Thread Tony McGee
Hopefully I'm not breaking any rule to give Directory Opus a plug, it's great for this stuff and loadsmore. Link: http://www.gpsoft.com.au/ e.g. http://imgur.com/LPcOuOJ No affiliation at all, just an extremely happy customer - it's actively in development locally in Brisbane so shout out if

Context menus for .sln file

2017-07-04 Thread Greg Keogh
Folks, back on Windows 7 I made some registry tweaks to add some really handy extra "Open with" shell context menus for the .sln extension. My Blog Post on doing this is still online. On Windows 10 the registry changes

Re: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-04 Thread Tom Rutter
How is the touchpad on the spectre? On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Greg Low (罗格雷格博士) wrote: > 100% agree. Have an HP 360 Spectre i7 (quite like it BTW) but needing to > dongle to get LTE is a pain in the neck. (1st world problem) Love my P50 > with built-in fast LTE. > > > >

RE: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-04 Thread David Kean
No there is literal UI performance issues (scrolling is slow, lagging), put in “UI performance surface book” and you’ll see that lots of people are running into it. What your suggesting below might work for a desktop – it doesn’t work for a laptop that isn’t always connected to an external

RE: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-04 Thread 罗格雷格博士
100% agree. Have an HP 360 Spectre i7 (quite like it BTW) but needing to dongle to get LTE is a pain in the neck. (1st world problem) Love my P50 with built-in fast LTE. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under |

Re: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-04 Thread David Connors
On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 at 10:04 Tom Rutter wrote: > There's no real point to buy a surface pro unless you need the pen > capability and tablet mode. The reason I was thinking of going with a > microsoft laptop was so I don't get the bloatware I'm used to dealing with > Lack of

Re: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-04 Thread Tom Rutter
There's no real point to buy a surface pro unless you need the pen capability and tablet mode. The reason I was thinking of going with a microsoft laptop was so I don't get the bloatware I'm used to dealing with On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Scott Barnes wrote: > Why

Re: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-04 Thread Scott Barnes
Why buy a Surface over other laptops. Putting aside the alligances to Microsoft given the craft we choose, in all honesty what is it that sets it apart from competiting products. I look at it and I'm just unsure. I typically keep 1-2 laptops with me at any given time, because most of my tooling

Re: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-04 Thread Tom Rutter
i5+, 8gb+ ram, 128gb+ ssd, win 10 pro, 13-15 inch, $1500-2000 max On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 9:47 AM, DotNet Dude wrote: > What are your requirements? > > > On Monday, 3 July 2017, Tom Rutter wrote: > >> Hah didn't even notice that before you mentioned

Re: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-04 Thread DotNet Dude
What are your requirements? On Monday, 3 July 2017, Tom Rutter wrote: > Hah didn't even notice that before you mentioned it. It's as if the > designers did it just to make something wrong with the laptop. I've looked > at so many laptops now that I'm over it all... > > On

RE: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
The “look” of items is different to performance (lag with updates, screen tearing etc.) I’ve set the scaling specifically for each monitor I have (rather than relying on Windows to “auto-pick”) so each time I plug in a previously identified monitor, I get the same experience. From: