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It's still the most I've ever spent on a laptop (let alone a tablet), but you've got to hand it to Microsoft--it's not "just a tablet", unlike everything else out there.
A coworker had won a first-gen Surface RT in roughly the same timeframe, and I also bought it from him on the cheap. Even that is still getting monthly updates. If nothing else, at the very least, it's still useful as a web browser and PDF reader.
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Oh, and my Lumia is also still getting the occasional OS and security update. So much for being the dead platform. I wish the manufacturers of my Android tablets stood behind their products the way MS does.
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Buy two more (of the bigger ones!), then, if one breaks, you've still got a spare, and you'll still have paid only half of what ms demands for a tab-thing, and you'll still have full-sized USB ports (unless the latest versions have USB-C).
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how about the leno yoga? seeing as you don't use the android anyway and comes standard with a simpleton app launcher.
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Dead battery that can be replaced?
I have a Note 10 tablet that when it's charge runs out won't charge at all. It needs to be opened and I need to apply some voltage from a usb cable directly to the battery to jump start it.
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Hi Paul, my Wookie died about 18 months ago, same scenario wouldn't charge etc..., I now own a Surface Pro 4, I7 , 256gb SSD,16gb Ram - a brilliant piece of kit, all the fanboys want the latest Surface Pro 6 so Pro 4's ( just as good in my opinion ) are going for ~ £700 which should include the type case and the pen. I wouldn't pay £2000 but can accept £700.
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I just ordered an ex-demo Surface Pro 3 with the keyboard / cover thing for £220: 128/4 GB, Win10 Pro which should be fine wfor what I do with it.
I may just dismantle the Wookietab since I can't sell it (if I can't reset-to-factory it, I'd have to change every password on every system I use just in case). If I dismantle it, I can put a drill through the eMMC memory to be on the safe side if I can't see anything immediately obvious. Or I can't get it back together afterwards ... 
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Good luck with that - maybe write an article on the stripdown ?
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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It was really easy - four T4 screws, 8 plastic clips.
Unfortunately, the batteries, speakers, and what look likes an earth wire are soldered direct to the one-and-only PCB, so I can't even stick the display up on FleaBay as I'd be relying on someone else's soldering abilities to say the LCD and digitiser work. And FleaBay always seems to side with the purchaser so I'm very likely to end up out of pocket if they solder it in with a brazing torch and burn through the PCB ... 
Surprised now neat it all was in there though - all the flexi connectors were even wax sealed down after assembly. Pity the digitiser one wasn't fitted even close to straight, but it worked fine! Might explain why some areas always needed a "harder press" than others though.
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The eMMC in there turns out to be a good one - SanDisk 64GB - but I don't think that's readable any more; my blowtorch and I had a "die in a fire" party!
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Did you try and read from it ?
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yeah - but the compass needle hardly moved at all ... 
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Are bikini waxing strips just a rip off?
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From what I hair it doesn't shave any time.
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Sticky subject!
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I had hoped your post would follicle my lead.
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It was just a hair off!
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a new bikini? ...so does she want to show of hirsuite or not?
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I'm reading the rough cuts of a pre-release edition of a new book (Clean Agile: Back to Basics (Robert C. Martin Series) amazon - not yet released [^]) soon to release and I stumbled upon the following:
Robert C. Martin said : Transformation
The transition from non-Agile to Agile is a transition in values. The values of Agile development include risk-taking, rapid-feedback, intense, high-bandwidth communication between people that ignores barriers and command structures. They also focus on moving in straight and direct lines rather than mapping out and negotiating the landscape. These values are diametrically opposed to the values of large organizations who have invested heavily in middle-management structures that value safety, consistency, command-and-control, and plan execution.
Is it possible to transform such an organization to Agile? Frankly, this is not something I have had a lot of success with, nor have I seen much success from others. I have seen plenty of effort and money expended, but I have not seen many organizations that truly make the transition. The value structures are just too different for the middle-management layer to accept.
The very ideas and values that Agile proposes are often quashed immediately -- but silently.
Thus, Agile never actually exists in those organizations, but only some false facsimile.
This creates the immediate formation of another group of people known as the I_TOLD_YOU_SOs.
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raddevus wrote: This creates the immediate formation of another group of people known as the I_TOLD_YOU_SOs.
Which forms yet other groups of those known as "Excuse Makers" and "Scapegoaters".
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Your thoughts are valid. Another thing that happens in the transformation is the following:
The team-based approach where the team decides how to add value in agile may not get traction, if the organization has not ever done agile and that the team will continue to prioritize the procedures in place. With lack of out-of-box thinking, the ideas and values of the Agile processes won't get priority at least in the medium term thus making the transformation process often slow.
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This fall into the excuse maker's[^] category
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Great post and I agree with you. I think this is also why Small Teams more often succeed with Agile.
Of course, there is a bit of a paradox too because small steams often default to an Agile-type of working process.
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The reason Agile will never work - stake holders are never available to discuss the progress until it's too late to change anything before deployment.
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