What are your thoughts on the Microsoft event on 24 June?

davwheat

I'd love a ThinkPad, but I want them to start using the latest Ryzen mobile CPUs first. Lenovo's laptops are always the best in my experience.

I'd assume it would be a free upgrade, especially for home users. They might want to try and charge enterprise customers, though. They said that future versions of Windows would extend upon Windows 10, so I honestly don't think they'll call it Windows 11.

tankerkiller125

davwheat We have a couple of Laptops we recently purchased that have the latest Ryzen mobile processors (I believe) Notably their E series has them.

luceos

davwheat I hear people say this a lot, but noone ever seems to explain the issues they have with laptops that are already on the market.

Macbooks are simply far more superior in their software and hardware (except between 2015 mbp and m1). So developers tend to compare things with that; easy to use, excellent ux/graphics/performance and quality case/hardware..

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luceos excellent ux/graphics/performance and quality case/hardware..

And a usually outrageous price tag to match 😡

davwheat

tankerkiller125

Yeah, last time I looked though they were 3000 series, annoyingly, and now that 5000 series is out, they're still on 4000 series.

The battery is pretty underwhelming at 45 Wh. I barely get by a full school day with 91 Wh 😛

tankerkiller125

davwheat The thing to remember though is that ThinkPads are for business, not consumer, so reliability is way more important than next gen speed or features (at least in the minds of both businesses and manufacturers)

ornanovitch

tankerkiller125 My good old T440s: a perfection since 8 years for my usual academic & dev work ♥️ (with Arch Linux in my case)

010101

Unfortunately, I’m forced to use a Dell at work. It always has issues. Situations like this are what make people turn to Apple. 😜 And make me ignore Microsoft events.

ctml

Linux or bust 🙂 WSL works but it's not quite as good as the real thing. I'm stuck with it at work for the time being on Windows, but I run Fedora at home.

tankerkiller125

ctml The only issue I have with Linux for enterprise type environments is the lack of things like Group Policies for sysadmins to manage huge collections of machines easily.

tolgaaaltas

Internal test build leaked: https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-11-screenshots-leak/
https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-11-build-21996-has-leaked-new-desktop-ui-and-more

A reminder from Zac Bowden:

Darkle

tolgaaaltas On ultrawide screens like in my case it will be very comfortable to have the icons centered, cool. Probably what I'm most looking forward to are the tabs in the file explorer, it would be a disappointment if they don't add them.

Darkle

tankerkiller125 I really agree with this despite the short experience I had as a sysadmin (about 2 years) it's amazing what can be done, I'm curious if maybe there is a Linux distro with this goal, but Windows is really solid in this area.

tolgaaaltas

This flood includes some other parts of Windows 11 (or whatever it is):

tolgaaaltas

Darkle I'm most looking forward to are the tabs in the file explorer

It was on the case before Chromium-based Edge. They've actually tried tabs in some previous builds under Legacy Edge (Spartan). But they decided to switch to Chromium.

Darkle

tolgaaaltas Wow, I had no idea about this, I really don't know why it's taking so long to get this out, I have about 8-10 file explorer windows most of the time and the experience is not very pleasant when you have to go from one to another. Let's hope they finally release it 🙂

tolgaaaltas

Darkle If you're still interested in a tabbed experience on Windows, you can use the Files app.

tolgaaaltas

Less than 3 hours left.

meetdilip

1 hour left. But not sure whether they have any surprises.

Darkle

meetdilip We'll see, with Windows 10 the leaked version had nothing to do with the version that was finally presented.

tolgaaaltas

Announcement video:

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