RE: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-03 Thread David Kean
Yes it’s an OS problem which I believe based on whether Windows boots with the primary monitor as high-DPI or not. I’ve not confirmed if this is fixed in Anniversary Update, as I just stopped connecting my surface to external monitors after I got a dedicated dev box. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozd

Re: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-03 Thread Greg Wood
I have always had issues with DPI, external monitors and my Surface Pro 3. The way I resolve, is to only ever bootup/login to windows 10 with your external monitors plugged in. Then you can plug, unplug all you wish, as long as that first login is with the screens in But if you first login to th

RE: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-03 Thread Ken Schaefer
Why would UI performance suck if the DPI were different? It’s just raw rendering data pumped out over displayPort – and surely driver only cares about how many horizontal vs. vertical pixels to render. If anything this would be a Microsoft OS problem surely? FWIW, I haven’t experienced anything

Re: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-03 Thread Tom Rutter
Sorry about that. Didn't mean to make another laptop thread, was only asking about the surface laptop. You are right about the good laptop myth though On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Stephen Price wrote: > We need to make laptop threads on topic. They happen so often we could > almost make the l

Re: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-03 Thread Tom Rutter
Hah didn't even notice that before you mentioned it. It's as if the designers did it just to make something wrong with the laptop. I've looked at so many laptops now that I'm over it all... On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 4:37 PM, DotNet Dude wrote: > Have you seen where the power button is on the keyboa

Re: [OT] New surface laptop

2017-07-03 Thread David Connors
I just refreshed to a Lenovo X1 Yoga Gen2. Very, very nice. On Mon., 3 Jul. 2017, 4:46 pm Stephen Price, wrote: > We need to make laptop threads on topic. They happen so often we could > almost make the list about them. :) > > My Dell xps 13 is ok but it felt lacking in performance. I suspect it