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runqvist on 31 October 2012
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superchunk said:
runqvist said:

I see. May I inquire which operating system you consider as best?

Google docs does not do what anyone needs, not for every small business or every student. That is just a fact. Yes, it is a fault of emulation. Too bad that ms office is the dominant office suite, which means that there will be a lot of emulating. When it does not work, google docs is useless.

I am a pc gamer and some more! I have 2 desktop pc:s and one of them is actually a pretty decent computer. In fact it would be a fair guess that there are few users on this site who happen to have such a device. Are you aware that there are plenty of games which run quite fairly with such specs?

Almost all of my 3gp videos do not work at all, some older divx codecs have problems playing at all/with sound. At least some if not all nero codecs do not work at all. Few hd WMV codecs play choppily. Most of those are videos from our clients or my own old home videos.

It is a tablet which run all the windows programs, it also can be used as a laptop. I'd say that it is the complete package.

 

Win is what I use now due to greatly disliking Apple's business process and Linux is too cumbersome. I am buying the latest Chromebook as my usecase does not require anything ChromeOS would not allow. In its current state, yes Win is more fully featured and supported. However, for a typical consumer most of that is wasted. Outside of work, I am that typical consumer and ChromeOS is a superior choice. Its faster, more stable, free upgrades for life, safer, etc.

Ok, using "every" is obviosly too extreme. How about greater majority? k-12 can do anythign they would want. Greater majority of college degrees would suffice from only GDocs as well. Same as small businesses and probably all home users. I think the overall market for an Office has an easy majority that would never need the features MSOffice has that Gdocs does not. You can do any document with tons of specialized forms. spreadsheets with all formulas and charts. presentations and so on. Its all there.

The hardware on the SurfacePro is relatively equal to Nexus10. A dev could easily put the same game on it, including DX11 tech. Current it has not, but that will change in 2013.

There are media players in the play store that state they play 3gp (blackberry) video files. Maybe older codecs will have issues, but seriously? I'd have the same issues with windows in finding a codec for some 1990's codec. That's just how it works and I have troubles sometimes with my old cell phone videos playing back in win7. If you're having issues, you probably need to hit up XDA or other android dev sites and see what media player is best for your uses... also might want to focus on transferring your old files to newer tech.

I'm been doing that myself and loading it all in <15min chunks to Google+ for permanent storage and backup. As long as its less than 15min, its unlimited storage for free and that format will always work as it simply moves with Google.

So judging by your actions rather than your words, you do think that windows is the best os. Let's get back to this when you use that chromebook most of the time.

If you go for just majority, then I could agree. What is a k-12? And you can't say it is all there, because it is not all there. Maybe enough for you, but certainly not all.

Well I have tried a LOT of video players and no luck for me with my 3gp files. I don't have any problems with win7, with any of those videos. When I get a windows tablet, there is no need to use my time for converting that many videos.

I haven't joined g+ and not going to. I  prefer ubuntu one, if that is what you meant.