Episode 73: 73: 22 Degrees
- Author
- 5by5
- Published
- Fri 22 Jun 2012
- Episode Link
- https://hypercritical.fireside.fm/73
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the Microsoft Surface. It's a tablet! It's an ultrabook! It runs Office, Windows, and your existing x86 applications…unless it's the ARM version. And why is Microsoft making hardware, anyway? It's all very intriguing.
Links for this episode:
- Jobs: If you see a stylus or a task manager, 'they blew it' - Engadget
- John's Tumblr blog, also titled Hypercritical
- Microsoft Surface tablets may not match iPad battery life - Computerworld
- Microsoft VP creates perfume that smells of money - CNet
- Microsoft's Surface event video - YouTube
- Capacitive touchscreens - Wikipedia
- Surface by Microsoft
- Six Flags Great America
- Microsoft Technology Centers in Cologne
- Surface vs. iPad: Microsoft's Getting Rusty At Stealing from Apple
- PowerBook G3 - Wikipedia
- Limited-slip differential - Wikipedia
- John's Surface-like hardware musings from 2010 - Macworld
- Windows for Pen Computing - Wikipedia
- Inkwell (Macintosh) - Wikipedia
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