Microsoft bought out N-Trig a few years ago and incorporates their tech into all their devices. I think the Surface 3 was the first device that used their tech. Before that it was Wacom.
N-Trig was a competitor to Wacom for about 10-15 years before MS bought them. At this point they are a wholly owned subsidiary so you…

Somewhat related: this fall my sister started a dual master’s in business & public health program. She has a Samsung Notebook 9 that I helped her pick out a year and a half ago which she still loves because it’s so light at a little under 2 lbs. But she told me that for some reason the business school requires…

I think it they purchased pen tech from N-Trig for their surface devices which is why they need batteries now.

The Lenovo Yoga 920 has the same flippy tricks (minus detatching the screen), a 14 inch screen with a digitizer, and can be had for as little as $1149 (plus another $60 for the pen) with the new quad-core i7-8550U that’s burning up the benchmarks. Stepping up from 8 to 16 GB of RAM, 256 to 512 GB SSD, and 1080p to 4k…

Yep, check out the people that put airbags on the Audi A4 Allroad. It’s already got a built in wide body kit!

Do you think lowering these things and painting the wheel arches to make the hatchbacks we deserve will ever be a thing?

It’s well established that Americans will only buy hatchbacks and wagons if they’re given at least the faintest whiff of truckiness through raised ride height and/or plastic body cladding.

Exactly.

pretentious for being too functional and too powerful in relation to similarly priced devices, apparently.

Target market are the designers that do this for very big coin. Not most people and definitely not you since you don’t even realize they exist. This is the computing equivalent of a $200 drill. Almost nobody needs a $200 drill. But the carpenter that spends 5 days a week constructing houses has a very strong business…

Is ‘pretentious’ a code word for ‘not-Apple’? I mean, I can see that Surface Book 2 is a very well designed and functional computer design, but if it lacks the courage to omit a headphone jack we clearly can’t give it a pass.

So everyone complains about the price, and yet they forget that Macbook Pro is priced equally absurd. At least Surfacr Book gives you touchscreen and a removable screen which makes it more advanced than the Macbook Pro. So who is for? Same type of people who use windows but want equally premium hardware as those…

Keep up the good work?

This is why I avoid talking to everyone.

In a Lifehacker article today, I said you should avoid talking to journalists. This is why, Elon.

Smoking Room? You mean your break room at Best Buy?

That’s what inattentive drivers in oncoming traffic are for!

But how will I be blinded at night within the confines of my own car?

Big screens are not fancy. When have you ever seen a large screen in a smoking room?