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		codeulike on May 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 3 Yeah I have a Surface Pro 1 and I now use it for everything - development, taking notes, writing apps, playing minecraft, scribbling on PDFs. The direction they're taking the Pro 3 seems to be a good clear message at last 'the tablet that can replace your laptop' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t7rSZT_77E The bigger screen is a good move I think. I've started using the ArcTouch mouse with my surface when I'm out and about, rather than the touchpad on the cover. Works pretty nicely and folds flat. But then I've always preferred a proper mouse to a touchpad.

mcintyre1994 on May 20, 2014 [–]

Just out of interest, are you developing on Windows? Do you have any experience running Linux on them or know if that's pretty much a no go?

kayoone on May 21, 2014 | [–]

For my case, windows runs vagrant pretty well, so i have no problems developing web apps on windows as i have used vagrant on OSX before anyway.

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