actually, a decent powerful computer nowadays have longevity due to plateau in performance (any more powerful, to average user, no much difference in everyday user, unless you're a gamer, graphic artist, etc)
ie, medium - high end laptop of 2007-08 ( ie, intel dual core duo) can easily run windows 8 with little performance issue, if had only 2gb ram, upgradable ram will improve performance though, presumable window 8 will last the next 8 years or so
on the other hand, solder ram and hdd limits your options.
The new MS Surface Pro 3 looks interesting but won't be available in HK until Q3/Q4.
ASUS T100 as good as surface pro, inc office 2013, cheaper than the castrated RT. Includes a detachable "proper keyboard".
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FYI ... this compliments my original post, early morning, without coffee and running out the door. Apologies for grammar and inaccuracy.
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"Just like the screws, all the components—including the RAM and SSD—are proprietary, making replacement parts more difficult to source."
And probably double as pricey
I think that makes air a no go.
I was a PC man for years and then I finally gave in and got a Mac and an iPad. Love the iPad but would swap it in a heartbeat for a similarly priced win 8 tablet with 4g...The Mac, I had many ups and downs with it, loving it, hating it...after a year with it I've settled on: It's no better or worse than a PC, it's just different...the only difference is the price and to me, that makes it a rip-off.
If you want a work horse and reliable laptop go for Lenovo. For me, my next laptops won't be, I'll be buying win 8.1 tablets with keyboards.
This was rather my point about technology changing in 10 years. It's not about the change in laptop technology; its about changes that may make laptops themselves redundant.
personally I cannot see myself moving to a tablet+keyboard any time soon, but I recognise that may change easily with changing tablet+keyboard designs, and it's the tablets that are currently evolving the fastest.
10 years ago tablets were "a stupid idea" ... I read an oped piece somewhere saying they would "never catch on".... (Can't recall exact date, but it was before the iPad!). And then the iPad and then the world changed.
I still recall seeing my first iPhone. I didn't really see what the fuss was all about; but everyone around me (we were in a restaurant with a group) was like "wow... wow... that's amazing". And now look!
What's next? Holographic interfaces like you see on sci-fi shows? Decent speech interfaces that make typing redundant? All the realm of science fiction or actually only a few years away?
See this for an example of how we really don't know what will catch on in the future! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ed-regret.html
And this review of one of the first tablets from 11 years ago... boy have things changed here!
http://www.mobiletechreview.com/note..._xp_tablet.htm
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