I don't get it though. Plenty of windows laptops for basic users have much slower cpus and less memory. It seems that rather than being about a convergence between desktop and mobile, this is simply about offering a basic machine with a good build and an acceptable balance of specs. Nothing that Microsoft or many other big names couldn't have done at any point in time with their current technology, had they cared about offering a good, recognisable and trusted user experience.
I don't get it though. Plenty of windows laptops for basic users have much slower cpus and less memory. It seems that rather than being about a convergence between desktop and mobile, this is simply about offering a basic machine with a good build and an acceptable balance of specs. Nothing that Microsoft or many other big names couldn't have done at any point in time with their current technology, had they cared about offering a good, recognisable and trusted user experience.
but yet somehow none of those guys ever manage to accomplish it
I would expect people who say “paradigm-shifting” are not the same people as the ones shifting paradigms.
I am blown away by the number of ads on that page
Yes. It’s nearly unreadable.
This is an advert.
I am not blown away with 8GB of ram when only the OS occupies 6GB minimum...