<story><title>New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft</title><url>http://blogs.windows.com/devices/2015/10/06/a-new-era-of-windows-10-devices-from-microsoft/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cm2187</author><text>But then you loose the USB port. But the main problem of USB adapters is that they don&amp;#x27;t like being unplugged and plugged back which happens quite frequently with a laptop. With a real port connectivity is pretty much instantaneous. I used USB adapters for a while on a MacBook pro and came to the conclusion that I will never ever buy a laptop without ethernet ports.&lt;p&gt;What I wonder is why they don&amp;#x27;t come up with a mini-ethernet port format? Ethernet ports aren&amp;#x27;t exactly high tech.</text></item><item><author>soapdog</author><text>I use a surface and I have an ethernet to USB adapter, works pretty well.</text></item><item><author>cm2187</author><text>I still miss the z series... But the z series had ethernet ports. This surface thing is useless to me.</text></item><item><author>hkmurakami</author><text>This is what I was hopeful for when VAIO was spun off of SONY last year.&lt;p&gt;When I saw the &amp;quot;machined magnesium body&amp;quot; line in their video [1] I was immediately reminded of the VAIO laptops that had beautiful material way back in the 90&amp;#x27;s.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=XVfOe5mFbAE&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=XVfOe5mFbAE&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>tmd83</author><text>This! At least from the initial look and spec it looks like they did a lot of the things right and put effort in making this nice. Yes there are things that maybe I can get by without but the basics looks fantastic.&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t chip $50 off a premium laptop and make it crappy. OEM just keeps making too many model at every price point .. at every 20 dollars it feels like. While I hate the almost singular choice for OsX .. both for Windows and Android I think there is just too many price points and when you try to reduce by 5-10-20 dollar you skip things that seems not so essentially but the degradation in experience is much more than the money saved.&lt;p&gt;What I really hope from this is that it shows the OEM that there are enough interest in quality product and also let them know what are some of the things that people really care about like the build quality, nice keyboard&amp;#x2F;touchpad etc. Beyond this particular laptop my real wish is that it motivates and gives confidence to the windows OEM. We really do need some good windows laptop even if to just to run linux :).</text></item><item><author>MatthiasP</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s what the OEMs get for not being able to put out a laptop that could compete with Apple in all those years, they always managed to introduce some fatal flaw in their premium laptops, from weird keyboard layouts to bad fan management software.&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s hope the Surface Book will be succesful and Apple finally gets serious competition in the premium laptop market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrbuttons454</author><text>Anker makes a USB 3 hub with gigabit ethernet. I&amp;#x27;ve got one, it&amp;#x27;s pretty great.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ianker.com&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;A7514041&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ianker.com&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;A7514041&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft</title><url>http://blogs.windows.com/devices/2015/10/06/a-new-era-of-windows-10-devices-from-microsoft/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cm2187</author><text>But then you loose the USB port. But the main problem of USB adapters is that they don&amp;#x27;t like being unplugged and plugged back which happens quite frequently with a laptop. With a real port connectivity is pretty much instantaneous. I used USB adapters for a while on a MacBook pro and came to the conclusion that I will never ever buy a laptop without ethernet ports.&lt;p&gt;What I wonder is why they don&amp;#x27;t come up with a mini-ethernet port format? Ethernet ports aren&amp;#x27;t exactly high tech.</text></item><item><author>soapdog</author><text>I use a surface and I have an ethernet to USB adapter, works pretty well.</text></item><item><author>cm2187</author><text>I still miss the z series... But the z series had ethernet ports. This surface thing is useless to me.</text></item><item><author>hkmurakami</author><text>This is what I was hopeful for when VAIO was spun off of SONY last year.&lt;p&gt;When I saw the &amp;quot;machined magnesium body&amp;quot; line in their video [1] I was immediately reminded of the VAIO laptops that had beautiful material way back in the 90&amp;#x27;s.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=XVfOe5mFbAE&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=XVfOe5mFbAE&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>tmd83</author><text>This! At least from the initial look and spec it looks like they did a lot of the things right and put effort in making this nice. Yes there are things that maybe I can get by without but the basics looks fantastic.&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t chip $50 off a premium laptop and make it crappy. OEM just keeps making too many model at every price point .. at every 20 dollars it feels like. While I hate the almost singular choice for OsX .. both for Windows and Android I think there is just too many price points and when you try to reduce by 5-10-20 dollar you skip things that seems not so essentially but the degradation in experience is much more than the money saved.&lt;p&gt;What I really hope from this is that it shows the OEM that there are enough interest in quality product and also let them know what are some of the things that people really care about like the build quality, nice keyboard&amp;#x2F;touchpad etc. Beyond this particular laptop my real wish is that it motivates and gives confidence to the windows OEM. We really do need some good windows laptop even if to just to run linux :).</text></item><item><author>MatthiasP</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s what the OEMs get for not being able to put out a laptop that could compete with Apple in all those years, they always managed to introduce some fatal flaw in their premium laptops, from weird keyboard layouts to bad fan management software.&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s hope the Surface Book will be succesful and Apple finally gets serious competition in the premium laptop market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>&amp;gt; What I wonder is why they don&amp;#x27;t come up with a mini-ethernet port format?&lt;p&gt;I suspect that is part of the problem. The plug is just so big - though IMO Thunderbolt and USB adapters work OK. Realise not everyone thinks this way, though.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; But the main problem of USB adapters is that they don&amp;#x27;t like being unplugged and plugged back which happens quite frequently&lt;p&gt;? That&amp;#x27;s basically what they&amp;#x27;re designed for.</text></comment>