Work directly on the screen with your fingers and the MS pencil.
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Saturday, May 4, 2019
Decided to buy the Surface Studio II all-in-one desktop.
It’s pricey but I’ll tell you why I decided.
It’s powerful, fast, and I need something powerful and fast.
It’s gorgeous. And we all love gorgeous.
It’s a Surface, and I have been using a Surface Pro laptop for two years and I love it.
Particularly the touch screen. Love it.
My desktop doesn’t have it and, working at home on the desktop, I sorely miss the touch screen’s ease of use.
The two Surface machines will sync seamlessly.
And it’s so well-designed that the user becomes absorbed in her work, never distracted by technological issues. Her work, not the computer, is the experience.
And it holds out a promise to me: when I decide to try my hand at creating fun and interesting pieces for the blog, the Surface Studio, designed for the creatives among us, will empower me.
Imagine using the MS pencil to draw directly onto the screen, without the need of a translating mouse or keyboard. Want the lines darker? Press harder as we might do on a piece of paper.
And for physical comfort, adjust the screen to whatever level works best for you, even flat on its back.
Awesome.
It’s a pricey machine but now you know why I decided to buy it.
Oh! Did I mention that my son, Chris, is the Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft?
The weather in the next few days is decidedly ticking upwards in temperature and in sun, especially look to Tuesday and Wednesday for mild temperatures.
Let’s exult in the glorious weather to come.
The hours are ticking away and if we don’t make the most of our time another day will soon click past.
Unnoticed.
Unappreciated.
Tick Tock.
In clock language:
Enjoy today.
Enjoy the week.
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Postings Count, Weather Brief, and Dinner
Saturday, May 4, 2019
Our 393rd consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 393 posts we’re at the 7.86 mark of our commitment, the commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
Time is 12.01am.
On Saturday, Boston’s temperature will reach a high of 61* with a feels-like of 61* with a chance of a shower.
Dinner for tonight will be Pork Ribs.
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Question of the Day:
What is the Surface II
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Chuckle for Saturday, May 4, 2019
On their 25th wedding anniversary and during the banquet celebrating it, Mary was asked,
“What have these past twenty-five years taught you?”
"Well, I've learned loyalty, meekness, forbearance, self-restraint, forgiveness – all the humbling qualities I wouldn't have needed if I'd stayed single."
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Saturday, May 4, 2019
Love your notes.
Contact me at domcapossela@hotmail.com
This from Colleen G who always puts a smile on my face.
Regarding the conversation on the preparation for death.
Great idea Dom!
Death is a great way to put things in perspective and an amazing motivator. Unfortunately we, as a society, spend so much time and money running from it. We should just accept that it's going to happen and shape our every day accordingly.
If you have never seen Harold and Maude or haven't seen it lately--it's a great take! The soundtrack is worth several more passes as well.
If you want to sing out, sing out!
Here's to death! The great equalizer:)
Cheers,
Colleen
Web Meister Responds:Thank you, Colleen. I will take another look at Harold and Maude. Decades since I last saw it.
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Answer to the Question of the Day: Saturday, May 4, 2019
The Surface Studio 2 is an all-in-one PC, designed and produced by Microsoft as part of its Surface series of Windows-based personal computing devices.
It was announced at the Windows 10 Devices Event on October 2, 2018, with pre-orders beginning that day.
The touch-screen is the thinnest of all-in-ones.
The second desktop computer to be manufactured entirely by Microsoft, the Surface Studio uses the Windows 10 operating system with the October 2018 update preinstalled.
The product, starting at $3,499, is aimed primarily at people in creative professions such as graphic artists and designers.
The Surface Studio 2 has a 28-inch 4.5K "PixelSense" display with 4500 x 3000 pixels, equivalent to 192 dpi.
The screen, the thinnest ever built for an all-in-one PC at 12.5 millimeters thick, is capable of being used in both the DCI-P3 and sRGB color spaces, and features a unique hinge design that allows it be tilted to a flat position, in a manner similar to the Wacom Cintiq.
The bezel of the display contains a 5.0 mega-pixel camera and a Windows Hello-compatible backlit infrared camera.
The CPU is located in the base. Its compact design contains a 7th generation (codename "Kaby Lake") Core i7 processor and either a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or GeForce GTX 1070 graphics processor (both dependent on configuration).
The system can be configured with up to 32 GB of DDR4 RAM and a 2 terabyte SSD.
It also features four USB 3.0 ports, a USB-C port, an SDXC card reader and a headset connection.
Unlike many desktop PCs, the Surface Studio 2 supports Microsoft's Modern Standby (formerly known as InstantGo) specification, enabling background tasks to operate while the computer is sleeping.
The Surface Studio 2 received generally positive reviews from technology critics.
Many praised the large high resolution display, build quality and high performance of the GPU.
Criticisms included the high entry price of the device, the all rear-facing I/O ports and the use of last generation mobile Intel quad core (as opposed to current generation six core) CPU.
https://www.techradar.com/reviews/microsoft-surface-studio-2
Link to a detailed review by Techradar, the source for tech buying advice
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-studio-2/tech-specsLink to technical specs of the Surface Studio II