That sounds pretty awesome tbh. I may have to check that out :)

That may be true, but for seamless interoperability with mobile devices it sure seems like you need an iPhone, Safari and an iPad.

But to be fair, that seamless operability just doesn't exist in the Windows or regular old Linux world unless you create it yourself.

I just hope the competition starts to ramp up soon. I'm still waiting on a Thinkpad with true all-day battery life... now an ARM version of the X1 Carbon or X1 Nano, optimized for Ubuntu out of the box - that would be pretty incredible.

I'm not too fond of the whole OS X UI and the ecosystem lock-in. An Ubuntu build that works OOTB and provides the same incredible battery life would go a long way to making an M1 Mac an option for me.

I just switched one of my older Thinkpads to Ubuntu and installed Win10 in a VM for work. Same thing... holy crap that's a lot of "please sign up and consent to this and that".

And even full-blown Ubuntu with Unity (the Linux distribution with the reputation as a fat, sluggish pig of a distro) is super-responsive (pretty much instant) on this ancient Thinkpad. Oh and not a single driver installation necessary - looks like a lot has changed since the last time I tried this about 5 years ago.

Guess I can start purging Windows (and Office) off of my home devices now - hooray!

I've been using OneDrive, Dropbox etc. for years. The thing I object to is MS Word not letting me save into my OneDrive folder locally and then having OneDrive the system tray app take care of the upload. MS Word wants me to log into Onedrive within MS Word and then have the Save File dialog upload my changes directly to OneDrive. Opening the "Save as" dialog now takes 10x as long as it did back when I could just save locally - even though I'm saving to the exact same location.

All this "tight cloud integration" is getting on my nerves. I can hardly save a Word document any more without Word trying to save it to my Oneclouddrivethingbobby (which takes ages because it has to query servers first etc.). Just let me save the damned thing on the network drive where we store all our other company documents. Also, I don't want to fucking log in to a word processor or other office software. Let me open my files and save them locally as I please, thank you very much.

We're using Office 2019, btw. - from the MS Action Pack.

Dear Microsoft... fuck off and leave me alone.

This is all true, but once the dust settles and people know what to buy, the *charging* situation will be glorious. And tbh most people don't give a flying fuck about USB-C data transfer speeds - as long as they can get a PDF or similar 10MB file from A to B in an emergency they're fine, and that'll work perfectly with the lowest supported data transfer standard.

I've already got a single 65W charger with two USB C ports and a USB A port on it for travel. I can charge ALL my stuff with it, from the laptops (65W Thinkpads, including an old X220 and W550s with adapters along with a newer T15 with native USB-C) to tablets, cameras, phones, headphones etc.. My personal USB C nirvana is already here.

And even for the uninitiated: The chargers (and cables, if separate) that come with USB C tablets and laptops will easily charge my phone. That's already a measure of backward compatibility that we haven't had before.

They're still working on the rest :S

... it's the detachble tablet part of a Lenovo Chromebook Duet. The tablet experience is like broken iPad... especially the on screen keyboard is awful by comparison. Android phones and tablets are also much better in terms of touch responsiveness nd UI optimization.

With a keyboard and mouse attached it's a nice little Chrome (if you prefer Firefox look elsewhere) browser device with long battery life. I'd recommend something in the clamshell form factor for people who actually plan on typing though - this detachable keyboard crap sucks.

> Build sensors with 20% larger area with a usable readout speed and a global electronic shutter, then shoot at 1000 fps and motion-compensate the subframes using machine learning combined with gyro data and the image data, then sum the values to get the noise floor down to something usable.

That's pretty much what smartphone cameras have already been doing for years. Computational burst photography has been here for quite a while, albeit with the concept leaning less on gyro data and more on interpretation of image data. As readout and processing speeds improve, using more and more frames at once is pretty much a given.

At the moment, however, optical stabilization still gives enough of a boost that it's useful and worth the additional fragility. Some phones these days have a stabilized main camera and an unstabilized secondary camera (such as an ultrawide), and the difference in stabilization performance is still quite noticeable, even when using all the computational photography features on the secondary camera. Example: The last generation of Pixel phones (Pixel 5, Pixel 4a5G) - the unstabilized ultrawide needs far more frames (via forced activation of night mode, for instance) for a computationally stabilized image.

Unless you have hardware connected that comes with crappy drivers. I had sporadic BSODs on my home Windows 10 PC for about two years. Infuriating, but not frequent enough to make me replace the whole machine with something new (about once a month or so).

Turns out it was the Logitech webcam drivers. Removed that piece of junk and I haven't seen an issue since.

Of course it's unacceptable to have a delay. Which is why you'd be daft to have the ABS system connected to the infotainment OS and its OTA updates...

Apple finally moves in the direction of a universally compatible port and you still complain? Just get one of those USB C Magsafe-Esque doohickeys that you can get for a few bucks on Amazon if it bugs you so much.

Having a single USB charger with multiple ports that's barely bigger than a phone charger was a few years ago is great for travel. Charges my USB C laptop, phone, camera and whatever else I might be carrying around... and it's lighter than my old laptop power supplies at the same rated wattage.

My girlfriend spent the last few years with a Nexus 5 running Marshmallow. Only just upgraded to a Pixel 4a a few days ago.

Honestly, it ran everything just fine if you could live without the warm fuzzy feeling of security updates. She's still complaining that I made her upgrade.

The hardware can manage it. I'm still running my Oneplus 3T with an Android 10 custom ROM after having tested (and immediately returned) a few modern phones (including the Pixel 5 and Oneplus Nord) and decided that the difference in performance and features isn't worth the cost of the upgrade yet.

The problem is that the manufacturers don't have any incentive to make this happen with long-term software updates. Basically, if you wanted to do this without playing with custom ROMs, you'd be stuck on Android 9 indefinitely (so same situation as the article is referencing in about 2 years). Alright, updates stopped after ~3 years instead of 2, but that's still unacceptable - the phone is still going strong with 5-6 hours of screen-on-time per charge and the performance is perfectly fine running Pixel Experience 10 and GCam.