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Currently watching it and so far more about Hololens has been announced with a stunning demo (holdable holograms), pricing for Hololens and details on the new fitness band, totally waiting for the Surface Pro 4 though

Without a doubt Microsoft are leading in terms of innovation, the leaps they are making is simply mind-blowing!

LIVE-STREAM: http://www.microsoft.com/october2015event/en-us/live-event
 
Really looking forward to some in depth reviews of the phone and laptop, both look excellent as does the surface
 
I might have to pass on my surface pro 3 to my wife or daughter :)
 
Its certainly made my purchasing decision much harder, I'd just settled on a 15" Macbook Pro and a tablet of some kind as an accompaniment, and was planning on buying one this week but the enhanced specs of the higher end Surface Pro 4's (i7 and 16GB RAM) make me think that it might actually suffice as an editing machine plugged into my 24" dell monitor... will be keen to see UK pricing and release dates. I might just get the Macbook and look to pickup a reduced SP3 for when I'm mobile.
 
I have been looking for a new tablet for a while now. Looks like the new surface pro has just ticked all the boxes. As Chris mentioned plug into a monitor and get editing. I quite like the phone as well.
 
I've got the current Surface Pro 3 plugged into two 4K screens now and that is absolutely fine. I just pop it in the docking station when I get home and off you go.

16GB Ram, i7 and 1TB SSD will be lovely. But I guess it will be over £2K :(
 
dejongj said:
I've got the current Surface Pro 3 plugged into two 4K screens now and that is absolutely fine. I just pop it in the docking station when I get home and off you go.

16GB Ram, i7 and 1TB SSD will be lovely. But I guess it will be over £2K :(
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Yeah I actually think it might make the top end 15" Macbook Pro look good value....
 
Yes, the current i7 Surface pro really wasn't good value for money, and the thermal design caused it to throttle performance back, or so the forum posts suggests. That combination made me for once not go for the top model.

However I am not surprised. I've always maintained that comparing truly like for like the MacBooks are pretty good value.
 
chrism_scotland said:
£1800 for the top end one on the Microsoft store, could have been worse but seems a lot for a tablet!
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Ouch, now it isn't just a tablet it really is a laptop replacement....But despite me liking the form factor over a normal clamshell, that is too much. And that doesn't include the £109.99 keyboard either. So you are talking about a £1,900 device. And that is the simple keyboard cover, the actual fingerprint windows hello enabled version would likely to be £150....Crazy stuff...I do not think it is worth that much.

No thank you, I'll remain with my surface pro 3 for now.
 
dejongj said:
Ouch, now it isn't just a tablet it really is a laptop replacement....But despite me liking the form factor over a normal clamshell, that is too much. And that doesn't include the £109.99 keyboard either. So you are talking about a £1,900 device. And that is the simple keyboard cover, the actual fingerprint windows hello enabled version would likely to be £150....Crazy stuff...I do not think it is worth that much.

No thank you, I'll remain with my surface pro 3 for now.
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15" Mac for me at that price I think... and maybe an SP3 if prices dip a little more.
 
chrism_scotland said:
15" Mac for me at that price I think... and maybe an SP3 if prices dip a little more.
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That comes with last-gen processor and a lower resolution on a larger screen.

Unless your a fan of OSX or really need a 15" screen I can't see the logic. Or is there a macbook refresh announced?
 
I'm not that fussed with this race for resolutions on inbuilt screens. I mean it is not usable at native resolutions and thus will have to scale. To me it is not a selling point but it may be for someone else.

And whilst Windows 10 has improved scaling, it is still nowhere near as good as OS X. Although I am sure it will improve with time. But what I would like to see is clever zone scaling technology like OS X has where a developer can define areas for tools and scale high and other area for say photos and run at native resolution.
 
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