You haven't given any useful information that would suggest criteria. What is the employee going to be doing on the laptop? Are they going to be traveling? Will their activities be confined primarily to that machine, or will they be primarily accessing remote resources? And if they are going to be doing on-device work, do you have existing plans, tools or infrastructure to deal with date security and integrity, like off device syncing and backups?

TL;DR: You're terrible at asking questions, so I won't bother answering. If the individual is familiar with Windows though, I see little good reason to force them to learn a new platform unless something else compels that decision.

Opera uses Chromium as well. So do Brave and Vivaldi. And Edge on platforms other than Windows.

Firefox and Safari are the only major browsers using their own rendering engines (though the Chromium engine itself is a fork of Apple's WebKit engine.)

All indications is that Microsoft will be *offering* a managed desktop offering to businesses.

Android ðY'© is going to be off the charts.

At $35k you get the 2.0 turbo touring model, which includes a heads-up display, heated and ventilated seats, wireless phone charging, rain sensing windshield wipers, heated and powered side mirrors, powered leather , leather trim, satellite navigation, premium audio system, auto-domming mirrors, powered moon root, blind spot information system, cross traffic monitor, remote start, etc etc.

This is not an econobox. You can get one of those for about half as much (base level Insight starts at $18,725).

If you click on "Order Now" the cheapest option is $49K. Cancelled or not, it is unavailable even to order for the foreseeable future.

I'll likely be buying two of these for my twins when they start high school next year. They're currently sharing a Surface 3 we picked up as a refurb a few years back, which has worked out pretty well. (Among other things, they use it for writing music using StaffPad so having a pen actually matters.)

Yes. They're producing processors with the Chinese government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The tax credit is non-refundable. It is unlikely people waiting for the budget model have a large enough tax bill to get the full credit anyway. Even then, with no promise on delivery day they may not get it anyway.

And the idea that the value of the used vehicle will go up by the full value of the credit is laughably optimistic.

How long does it take to incur "massive debt" at a dollar a day?

Manual file management isn't a core task for modern computers. My kids have been using a Surface 3 for a couple of years and so far as I know none of them has ever opened a file manager. Even then, I think you're overstating the difficulty. Region select is at least as easy on a touch interface as with a mouse; individual selection isn't as easy, but hardly impossible.

It probably won't have a lot of ports, but that is true of "real" tablets running iOS and Android. But that's okay because you don't have to plug in a Bluetooth mouse (or keyboard or stylus) and there will presumably be a type cover with a touch pad (like every other Surface).

No idea what you're talking about with regard to file transfer. I don't know of a single Windows tablet that doesn't have a USB host, allowing you to plug whatever accessory you want in it, though there are plenty of Android devices that don't support USB OTG. Of course Microsoft would rather you just use OneDrive so you don't need to bother transferring files manually between devices.

Adapt to the new technology? Kodak engineers invented it back in the 1970's, introduced the first commercial products in the late 1980's, was among the slate of the first consumer products in the mid 1990's, and was the market leader for much of the 2000's.

They ultimately underestimated the speed of the shift from film to digital (as well as the shift from discrete cameras to camera phones) and their diversification efforts were less successful than Fuji, but that doesn't change the fact they were the primary innovator in the field. For that matter, part of what hastened their demise was the lapse of their patents on digital photography in the late 2000's cutting off yet another revenue stream and increasing their competitors margins.

Also, unlike GM and Chrysler, Ford did not accept any TARP funds, though it did accept loans under a DOE program (with most of the funds earmarked for improving fuel efficiency).

But it really doesn't matter if Ford remains a market leader during it's transition. There are far more and far bigger automakers in the world and they are all aggressively pursuing electrification at this point. This is not Tesla v. Ford; it's Tesla v. Toyota v. GM v. Volkswagen v. Nissan-Renault v. Hyundai-Kia v. Ford v. Fiat-Chrystler v. Honda v. Peugot Citrogen v. BMW v. all the other smaller players or new entrants to the market.

In other words the challenge for Tesla is not whether they can best any particular competitor, but if they can maintain market dominance in face of the inevitable commodification of EVs. A better analogue is probably Tivo, who has become a relatively small player in the product segment they largely created.

Yes, they were actually the pioneer in the field, like Tesla. Where are they now?

That's my thinking. Ford has announced 16 electrified vehicles by 2021. Volkswagon 80 by 2025. GM 20 by 2021. Daimler 10 by 2022. BMW 25 by 2025. Renault-Nissan 20 by 2025.

Some will be hybrids or plug-in hybrids, but the coming years will bring dozens of EVs to market.

Didn't you hear Ford plans to have sixteen electric vehicles (including hybrids, plug-in hybrids and full EVs) by 2022?

http://www.hybridcars.com/ford...