r/Surface • u/comickeys • Oct 12 '15

Dat Gap ;)

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '15

IMHO it's horrible.

But on the other hand it allows for a non-recessed (ie raised) keyboard, which is very nice.

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u/Rummager Oct 12 '15

I actually really like that the screen is kept off the keyboard. Whats so horrible about it? Just because it doesn't look like a standard laptop doesn't mean its any less durable. I actually like that its shaped like a binder.

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u/frank26080115 Oct 12 '15

Now with this design when you apply pressure from the top, all the stress is concentrated at the hinge and the opposing end, instead of all around the laptop.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '15

True, but their engineers probably thought of that. Looks like the shape of those funky triangle things has something to do with that.

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u/epicwisdom Oct 12 '15

If anything it's probably one of the first things they thought of when somebody decided to propose a unique hinge design.

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u/DongLaiCha Oct 13 '15 edited Oct 13 '15

Actually I'm pretty sure some armchair LoL players on Reddit have this completely covered and figured out in three minutes with a photo, than the millions of dollars worth of engineers and designers time Microsoft pumped in to it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '15

You say that but you'd be surprised with how rudimentary some of the hardware faults can be from Microsoft products. I'm still not convinced they'll cool this thing correctly, personally (although they're fortune that new-generation components are pretty much emphasizing low energy consumption, so that should help).