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Jun 22, 2012 1 hr 42 min

Episode 73: 73: 22 Degrees

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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the Microsoft Surface. It's a tablet! It's an ultrabook! It runs Office, Windows, and your existing x86 applications…unless it's the ARM version. And why is Microsoft making hardware, anyway? It's all very intriguing. Links for this episode: Jobs: If you see a stylus or a task manager, 'they blew it' - Engadget John's Tumblr blog, also titled Hypercritical Microsoft Surface tablets may not match iPad battery life - Computerworld Microsoft VP creates perfume that smells of money - CNet Microsoft's Surface event video - YouTube Capacitive touchscreens - Wikipedia Surface by Microsoft Six Flags Great America Microsoft Technology Centers in Cologne Surface vs. iPad: Microsoft's Getting Rusty At Stealing from Apple PowerBook G3 - Wikipedia Limited-slip differential - Wikipedia John's Surface-like hardware musings from 2010 - Macworld Windows for Pen Computing - Wikipedia Inkwell (Macintosh) - Wikipedia

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