XYplorer Beta Club

Hi,

is anyone here using XYplorer on one of those machines?

I yes,
- how is "touching" XY (at least the major moves like drag & drop)
- how is using XY with those high DPI screens?

Thanks,
FH

Really no one with a Surface (Pro)?

SP4 arrived.

Very first look at XY doesn't look too bad.

I used to have ASUS Transformer (Windows 10). When detach the keyboard, XY is not touch-friendly at all:
- Small buttons
- XY feels lame without right click, KB shortcut, drag-drop

binocular222 wrote:When detach the keyboard, XY is not touch-friendly at all:

Well, not out of the box, indeed.

I haven't bought this gem to mainly run XY without keyboard and mouse on the road. But I will test this, once the workspace is fully set up (I have time ).

FH

binocular222 wrote: without right click, drag-drop

Both of them work principially (right click is a looong touch).

But it takes a while until I'll come up with suggestions to optimize XY for touch devices.

Some initial SP4 impressions:

- I'm still baffled by having a tablet that runs XY, Vivaldi, Notepad++ or LightRoom
- it is well designed and build quality is top notch (on par with Apple)
- the cpu power is quite good (even for simple Lightroom tasks) and sufficient for presumably 90% of my usual workloads, Windows 10 feels absolutely fluid
- on the other hand, if set up properly it seems I could get towards 6-8 hours of Vivaldi-Surfing in battery mode. If so, this will be much more than expected from my upfront readings (and my iPad2 experiences). but needs to be confirmed by experience
- I'm sure, the PENififcation will turn out to be a great thingie for me (especially after the Anniversary Update with Windows Ink -> creating annotated screenshots never was easier).
- given what it offers and how huge it is (compared to iPad2) it feels surprisingly lightweight (even though it is ~ 800gr tablet only)
- the Windows Cover keyboard is better than it looks or feels. When it is positioned completely flat, it's almost like a notebook keyboard
- Windows Hello (face recognition logon) is cool as well

It won't replace my desktop power machine - but it will reduce my needs to require my desktop when using Windows. ;-)


FH

Thanks Filehero for posting your Surface Pro 4 impressions. I'm still debating between a 2 in 1 versus a sleek light weight laptop like a Dell XPS 13. By the way, what did you get for the Surface Pro an i3, i5 or i7?

klownboy wrote:By the way, what did you get for the Surface Pro an i3, i5 or i7?

i5 / 256 GB.
An i7 just offers a simple - and rather minor - cpu frequency increase, which is by no means worth the addon price tag. Besides that, due to the implicit power target resulting from the SP4 design most reviews found cpu throttling to occur quite often. So in practice the maximum frequency turns out to remain a rather theoretical promise.

Is it supposed to be your only machine? Then I would take ultra-notebook. Or the Surface Book which is the bet breed of both worlds.

Yes, I heard from a few sources that going with the i7 wasn't worth it at least for the Surface Pro...too big of a price difference for what you're getting.

A new laptop/Surface/Book would be my only mobile computer other than my ageing Sony laptop, but I do have 2 desktops. I tend to use my existing laptop only when I travel or away from home.
Thanks Filehero.

My three new gems.