@johnolilly @aseidman I see massive sales of 5 inch "phablets" that is telling me otherwise. :) And no end in sight there..

@johnolilly @aseidman not exactly. Mobile devices are becoming as powerful as PCs. Design for a very small tablet PC.

@CurtMonash I'm pretty sure Oracle would sell their grandmother for a pack of cigarettes. And an enterprise license.

@shawninman it's just lame, mostly. I pay it because 16gb is not enough on a hi-res device. Couldn't even upgrade iOS due to lack of space!

@erinspice but the clowwwwwwddddddddddddd. Or as @textfiles calls it, "the clown".

@shopsinc well it is 24w which is twice the rate of the 12w charger with the iPad 4. So .. faster to charge. 2x faster.

@drylight you can also throw a 64gb SD card in there for $60, if you need large media storage. I have on both of mine.

@drylight it is definitely a valid complaint, but Surface isn't hi-def.

@Greenspeak THATS NO BABY RUTH!

@grobmeier @hezihertz get something with touch! Like Lenovo Yoga 13.

@hezihertz I was very disappointed in mine as well. But I resold it easily.

@MarcoTechDiary it is, if you think 6 MB/sec is the fastest transfer you can possibly imagine in your entire life

@gknauss to be fair, mother of CIA was not exactly dressed for church, if you know what I mean.

@drylight doesn't feel that different than iPad 3 in overall responsiveness. However unlike iOS, you *can* multitask and push it too hard.

@drylight apps are slow to launch on Surface RT, but once loaded, plenty responsive. http://t.co/COWJ6PuP

@drylight it's no shittier than iPad 3 (and therefore mini) in my experience. iPad 4 is WAYYY faster than both. It ain't subtle.

@textfiles thus quoth Jason [["smegma"]] Scott.

@CurtMonash mixed feelings about that. Oracle is pure evil incarnate; IBM is a lumbering, mindless beast. We want MSFT on that list?

@charlesrandall @Hanzo55 well, you know .. obviously there's SOME kind of secret cabal behind the scenes orchestrating everything.

@jonskeet software licensing! Fun for... uh, er... ummm... Salespeople!

@samsaffron I got a very good deal on Skydrive. Does amazon glacier work out price wise?

@TvdW how does one "make" a disk MBR?

@TvdW can't, it is GPT, not MBR. Fdisk does not work on GPT. Also you don't need to log in to answer.

@fcassia excellent solution. Even better, stop using computers. PROBLEM SOLVED! HOORAY!

@OmarShahine chunky??? backlight is uneven at bottom, but that's not readable area. Good tradeoff.

@mattcutts I'm still amazed you could tweet while running a marathon

@migueldeicaza two digital spaces is not the same as M-space   http://t.co/AxoMcXgd there is an analog divide here

@mattcutts but you are tweeting! That's not running! Keep running!

@scompt I don't know, I'll have to ask: if @balpha says it is true, then it is. What say you?

@gruber @indragie Right now I'm just counting the days until Apple releases their first touchscreen MacBook. It's coming.

@erik_perez seamless transition between touch and type

@CBielstein possibly, certainly touchscreen + keyboard is the future. But Lenovo Yoga is 3.4 lb vs the 2lb of the Surface Pro, for example

@bbum Imagine if the keyboard was the cover.. a super thin cover. I can type like hell on it, I am doing so now!

@DrPizza I'll definitely be buying two Surface Pros on day zero. I worry about weight (that Lenovo Yoga is 3.4 lb vs Pro at 2 lb.)

@JimRoepcke not wanting to stab yourself in the face every time you need to express more than a sentence in writing?

@Greenspeak omglol

@rageear most "brand name" server vendors have their equivalent. IPMI is an emerging standard, it's on all SuperMicro server mobos.

@srecosta @joshsusser @jonskeet don't you know that Jon is in UTC+0 aka the Time Zone of the Gods? EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON!

@fmanjoo yeah, I know you like yellow.. JOURNALISM!!1!

@johnolilly I bought it and it is downloaded to the Kindle app, but sadly.. I have not. I did read http://t.co/G46lyD3r by author though!

@davidlee @johnolilly @nabeel strongly related: http://t.co/i1zSRrfj

@fmanjoo you liked the Philips? I sold mine on eBay, the light produced was way too orange/yellow/warm to my eye. Also 12w is a *lot*.

@frsevillano cheers!

@dorianmuthig I have a type and touch cover and the difference is just not that big to me. I'm very fast on the touch cover.

@dorianmuthig $599 includes the keyboard. But yeah, slightly better screen and real 128gb SSD. It'll be much faster.

@latenightalex I used Acronis True Image 2013.. not free though. Great software! http://t.co/dAoEIT2q

@BrandonMcMullin great! I hope it was useful.

@mattcutts could you guys fix the hideous, horrible font rendering on Windows? Please? Waited last 4 versions for improvements, nothing

@Alex_Sebenski ARE YOU A WiZARD?

@gknauss AND YOURE A SARCASTIC JERK

@Gryzor 840 pro is for professionals only. Sorry man.

@MrAlanCooper friending is, and has always been, a bullshit concept. Nobody keeps a list of their friends anywhere.

@runxc1 but we have one already :p http://t.co/y6DjCReH

@cshirky dude Internet 101. Don't feed the trolls.

@fmanjoo that's the county I went to high school in.

@VisualDragon too obvious

@WilburSullivan dude, this music is objectively FUCKING AWESOME

@jzy tell @annacy to stay strong sista!

@gknauss we have twin 9 month olds so we're in a homebound prison type situation at the moment. Will check it out for sure in the future.

@gaberivera "one should never spread ennui" http://t.co/qm5z8Pps

@aaronsw two of my favorite dark-horse kid's CGI movies are Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and Megamind. Both truly excellent.

@fmanjoo some things on iPad are excruciating vs Surface. Yesterday I was trying to post an image on a forum; would have killed for ctrl+c,v

@aaronsw you liked Bolt? I didn't think it was very good, and we have a 3.5 year old so I've seen pretty much every kid's movie there is now

@fmanjoo I wondered why you didn't bother with the typing test after all those comments about the on-screen keyboard.

@DrPizza @fmanjoo type cover plus usb mouse doesn't cut it for you? I have only tried the touch cover (have a type cover on order).

@fmanjoo that said, the Surface Pro (Intel-based ver) will be much faster, and instantly obsolete all ultrabooks and laptops in Jan 2013.

@fmanjoo it's weird that you are so meh on Surface. The more I use it, the more I like mine. Ordered another one yesterday.

@anildash I guess this is easier to understand in densely urban areas like NYC when not having a driver's license is.. possible.

@fmanjoo they were going to, but then they saw the last Surface ARM based laptop you reviewed got a "meh" from you, so they aren't bothering

@seesharp I remain, as always, your humble huckleberry.

@seesharp invalid without link to http://t.co/kzjM3QKm

@hardwareguy portrait is all but unusable. 768 pixels wide! Retina would help a little but still physically very narrow.

@aaronsw @cshirky I was really excited about ChromeOS on the new Chromebook until I tried browsing the web with it: https://t.co/BEOez9sD

@melle @rands unfortunately mom wasn't available that day.

@kevinmontrose out of 100% idle curiosity, what is the ETA to move them back?

@MehrdadA maybe even more innovative than Pippin, even. http://t.co/NkR8FmVW

@kevindente @marcoarment Surface is actually innovative. iPad mini is a smaller iPad 2 with iPhone 5 design. 73 degrees. Sunny.

@marcoarment I come for the retina, but I stay for the incredible speed. Wake me up when mini has retina and A6 or better.

@tekneeque nice!

@cwodtke being famous and having an audience never hurts, of course, but ranking high in Google is the final word of God on the matter

@cwodtke has been discussed before, but audience/fame do not guarantee success (many examples: Airtime, etc). Utility does...

@lessig I don't know, but How to Talk So Kids Will Listen totally blew my mind. Totally changed my concept of parenting http://t.co/MB3HF22I

@dingstweets @raphkoster for a talk about fun, I have to be brutally honest with you: this was incredibly boring. Needs more, er, fun.

@tinkertim what should I see in it? I don't want to watch this.

@jsoverson do you really want it? I'd rather send it to someone who wants it for face value (no need to donate). Email me if so.

@demisbellot unlikely; Chrome for Android has aggressive hardware acceleration tweaks. I guess that must be harder to pull off in Linux.

@enkerli @Carnage4Life Perhaps you're right; writing and reading can also be viewed as even less optimal to many.

@enkerli @carnage4life @yelp looks like it to me. Writing on mobile and tablet is excruciating.

@JeffChausse they have no local state and can be replaced in about 5 minutes with virtually no configuration

@mohsen____ does not work

@G64 you can pin a tab to that instance of Chrome but nothing can touch the launcher except "apps", which is ridiculous!

@fmanjoo time yourself; take an online typing test on both. Repeat a few times for science. This Chromebook is especially nutty.

@JonathanRauch apparently, tastes vary. Some people actually like disgusting things like asparagus.

@dlsx because surface is designed with a keyboard in mind, and feels a lot like a laptop in use. Just a much much better one.

@NathanBowers that's gonna be some mad crazy rectangle action bro

@benjaminhowarth how does one go about setting that up? Can you have a US bank account as a foreign national? links?

@JennipherMarie well, if you know dudes, and I'm sure you do, you'd be more than a little nervous about 'sharing' of said video. #noway

@ohmz takes too long to dry! But yes you could

@tooshel you ain't wrong

@NathanBowers I don't think you tried it long enough. Takes at least an hour to adapt.